Aimed at Catholics and students of philosophy and ethics, this four-volume supplement to the New Catholic Encyclopedia focuses on philosophy, particularly ethics. It supplements entries on the topic in the main encyclopedia with new ones and those revised from prior 1967 and 2004 editions. It includes articles on the history of Western, African, and Islamic philosophy; treatments of hermeneutics, aesthetics, functionalism, and Kantian ethics; many technical terms in philosophy, such as circularity in argument, mental events, and reductionism; and topics like gender in international law, ecology, cosmology, animals, choice, bad faith, categorical thinking, character, community, democracy, friendship, existence, doubt, feminist ethics, evil, language, jurisprudence, infinity, hedonism, idolatry, naturalism, lying, moral realism, pain, reality, theism, the self, and virtue. Biographical articles are excluded. Annotation 2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
