Philosophy

 For undergraduate Introduction to Philosophy courses.

The most widely-adopted introduction to philosophy text for more than two decades, this classic text introduces the major fields, problems, theories, and personalities of philosophy through the biographies and writing of leading thinkers.

• NEW—Earlier coverage of Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Science.

  • Gives students a solid background in the core fields before tackling Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the Philosophy of Religion.

• NEW—Chapter-end Contemporary Applications.

  • Shows students how specific philosophies relate to important issues of current concern, e.g., are cults religion?; is alternative medicine science or superstition?; can computers think?; is pornography art?; what is the nature of art?

• NEW—About Philosophy ABC News Video segments–Provides one video segment for each chapter-end Contemporary Applications section.

  • Shows students how classic philosophy connects to contemporary issues.

• NEW—More material on the philosophy of the mind.

  • Introduces students to this important area of philosophy.

• A critical-thinking approach–Presents Philosophy as an activity whose guiding principle is reason and whose goal is critical self-understanding.

  • Teaches students to analyze difficult concepts and ideas.

• WHAT the great philosophers said, and WHY they said it.

  • Explains to students in a clear, uncluttered manner why each philosopher felt compelled to think about their moral, scientific, religious, or logical problems as they did.

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• COMMON PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS (ISBN: 0-13-189661-X).  Compiled by the editors at Prentice Hall, this glossary will assist students in their study and mastery of philosophy. It contains 431 of the most common terms students are likely to encounter in their readings of primary and secondary texts.

• PRIMARY SOURCE RESOURCE.  Penguin novels and our own Library of Liberal Arts titles are available to package with your text. Available paperbacks relevant to the study of Philosophy include titles by Aristotle, Nietzsche, and more. Click here for more details.

• ABC NEWS VIDEOS FOR PHILOSOPHY CD-ROM (ISBN: 0-13-154202-8) This CD-ROM provides video segments culled from ABC news broadcasts that show how philosophical issues connect to contemporary situations. This engaging resource includes segments on the same-sex marriage debate, decency on TV, and several additional issues.

• Earlier coverage of Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Science.

  • Gives students a solid background in the core fields before tackling Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the Philosophy of Religion.

• Chapter-end Contemporary Applications.

  • Shows students how specific philosophies relate to important issues of current concern, e.g., are cults religion?; is alternative medicine science or superstition?; can computers think?; is pornography art?; what is the nature of art?

• About Philosophy ABC News Video segments–Provides one video segment for each chapter-end Contemporary Applications section.

  • Shows students how classic philosophy connects to contemporary issues.

• More material on the philosophy of the mind.

  • Introduces students to this important area of philosophy.

(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with The Main Points ... and Questions for Discussion and Review.)

1. What Is Philosophy?

What Do Philosophers Do? The Study of Human Nature.

What Do Philosophers Do? The Study of the Universe.

What Do Philosophers Do? Human Nature and the Universe.

Rationality, Universality, Objectivity.

The Limitations of the Western Philosophical Tradition.

Descartes' Method of Doubt.

Rationalism and Empiricism: Two Responses to Cartesian Doubt.

Leibniz and Rationalism.

Hume and Empiricism.

Kant's Resolution of the Rationalism/Empiricism Debate.

New Turns in Epistemology.

What Is Metaphysics?

Hobbes' Materialism.

Free Will and Determinism.

The Mind and the Body.

The Place of Science in the Modern World.

Francis Bacon and the Foundations of Scientific Method.

The Relation Between Theory and Observation.

Karl Popper and Falsifiability.

Thomas Kuhn's Theory of Scientific Revolutions.

Science as a Social Institution.

Voices Beyond Popper & Kuhn.

The Varieties of Ethical Theory.

Kant and the Commands of Duty.

Three Reasons to Think About Ethics.

Ethical Disagreement and the Categorical Imperative.

Utilitarianism and the Calculation of Pleasures and Pains.

Virtue Ethics.

The Feminist Critique of Ethical Theory. 

The Ethical Dimensions of Medicine.

 

The Ethical Dimensions of Medical Decisions.

Withholding Food and Water.

The Buying and Selling of Human Organs.

What Should the Doctor Tell the Patient?

6. Social and Political Philosophy.

Mill and Classical Laissez-Falre Liberalism.

The Socialist Attack on Capitalism.

Rousseau and the Theory of the Social Contract.

The Pluralist Theory of the State.

ABC NEWS CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION: Affirmative Action.

7. Philosophy of Art.

Plato's Attack on the Poets.

Aristotle's Defense of the Poets.

Marcuse and the Uses of Negation.

Arthur C. Danto’s Theory of Artistic Identification.

ABC NEWS CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION: Pornography, Art, and Censorship.

Kierkegaard's Encounter with Faith.

Can We Prove That God Exists?

William Paley: The Argument from Design.

St. Thomas Aquinas: The Cosmological Argument.

St. Anselm: The Ontological Argument.

The Problem of Evil.

ABC NEWS CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION: Cults: Religion or Fanaticism?

Appendix: How to Write a Philosophy Paper.

Glossary.

Suggested Readings.

Photo Credits.

Index.

Introduction to Philosophy  [TEXT WITH READINGS]   (Philosophy)

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  About Philosophy, 10/E
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  An introductory philosophy text that covers all the major fields of philosophy in easy-to-read language, interspersed with short selections from the major philosophers.  The text has been a best-selling leader in the field for more than thirty years.  It is written by an internationally recognized author of more than twenty books.  He is an important voice in social and political philosophy, Immanuel Kant's philosophy, and the philosophy of education.

Common Philosophical Terms
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©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 48 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205517196 | ISBN-13: 9780205517190

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ISBN-10: 020552396X | ISBN-13: 9780205523962

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