Edward Craig

Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? Edward Craig discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. He explores important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, alongside a new chapter for this edition on free will, discussing determinism and indeterminism in the context of Descartes and Hegel's work.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 169mm x 105mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9780198861775
• ISBN-10: 019886177X
• Artikelnr.: 59181761

Autorenporträt

Edward Craig is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is the author of several books, including Knowledge and the State of Nature (OUP, 1991), and The Mind of God and the Works of Man, (OUP, 1996). He was General Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy until 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
2: What should I do? Plato's Crito
3: How do we know? Hume's, Of Miracles
4: What am I? An unknown Buddhist on the Self: King Milinda's chariot
5: Some themes
6: Of 'isms'
7: Some more high spots: a personal selection
8: Freedom of the will
9: What's in it for whom
Bibliography
Where to go next
Index