The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 10. The book is alphabetized by the whole headings of entries, as distinct from the first word of a heading. Hence, for example, abandonment comes before a priori and a posteriori. It is wise to look elsewhere if something seems to be missing. At the end of the book there is also a useful appendix on Logical Symbols as well as the appendices A Chronological Table of Philosophy and Maps of Philosophy. | 70 Australian philosophy meta-ethical theory continued when in 1994 Michael Smith published The Moral Problem an attempt at reconciling a form of moral rationalism with a Humean approach to motivation. A different way of approaching philosophical political and moral problems incorporating psychological and sociological perspectives has inspired a distinctive school of Australian feminist philosophy in the hands of Moira Gatens Elizabeth Grosz and others whose writing intersects to an extent with a developing interest in and indeed resurgence of European philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand. Matching the synthesis of analytic and European styles ofphilosophizing championed by Hubert Dreyfus and Richard Rorty in the United States a similar convergence has characterized recent Australian writing by Max Deutscher Jeff Malpas Paul Redding and a few others. Applied ethics has lately received recognition and large-scale financial support in keeping with earlier Australian pioneering studies in environmental philosophy by Routley Passmore Val Routley later Plumwood Robert Elliot and others. Debates on social and political justice poverty abortion bioethics and biomedical ethics have been subject to philosophically informed scrutiny by writers like Michael Tooley Genevieve Lloyd Peter Singer Freya Mathews Janna Thompson and Rai Gaita. While some of these arguments have taken on a life of their own disengaged from technical issues within philosophy itself the emergence of intellectual debate at home and overseas featuring these and other thinkers is a powerful testimony to the continuing vigour and influence ofAustralian philosophy. . New Zealand philosophy women in philosophy. C. A. J. Coady Australia Philosophy in in E. Craig ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy London 1998 . S. A. Grave A History of Philosophy in Australia St Lucia Queensland 1984 . J. T. J. Srzednicki and D. Wood eds. Essays on Philosophy in Australia Dordrecht 1992 . authenticity. The .
