Samuel Guttenplan, Jennifer Hornsby, Christopher Janaway

Reading Philosophy

Selected Texts With a Method for Beginners

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Produktbeschreibung

This flexible introductory textbook explores several key themes in philosophy, and helps the reader learn to engage with the key arguments by introducing and analysing a selection of classic readings.
Fully integrated introductory text with readings for beginning students of philosophy.
Each chapter focusses on a core philosophical topic, and contains an introduction to the topic, 2 classic readings and interactive commentaries on the readings.
An introductory book which doesn t merely tell the reader about the subject, but requires them to engage philosophically with the text.
A pedagogical resource developed in the classroom by the authors at the University of London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 5th ed.
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780631234388
• ISBN-10: 0631234381
• Artikelnr.: 13623134

Autorenporträt

Samuel Guttenplan is a Reader in Philosophy at BirkbeckCollege, University of London. He is the author of The Languagesof Logic (2nd edn, Blackwell, 1997), editor of A Companionto the Philosophy of Mind (Blackwell, 1994) and executiveeditor of the journal Mind & Language.

Jennifer Hornsby taught philosophy at Oxford from 1978 to1994, when she moved to Birkbeck College, as Professor. Her chiefareas of publication are the philosophy of mind, action andlanguage. She has also written about the impact of feminism onphilosophy.

Christopher Janaway was educated at Oxford and has taughtfor the past twenty years at Birkbeck College, where he iscurrently Professor of Philosophy. His chief areas of publicationare aesthetics, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Introduction.

1. Doubt.

2. Self.

3. Tragedy.

4. Equality.

5. Dilemma.

6. Identity.

7. Freedom.

8. Causality.

9. Qualities.

Essay/Examination Questions.

Further Reading.

Index.

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Preface.
Introduction.
1. Doubt.
2. Self.
3. Tragedy.
4. Equality.
5. Dilemma.
6. Identity.
7. Freedom.
8. Causality.
9. Qualities.
Essay/Examination Questions.
Further Reading.
Index.

Rezensionen

"Reading Philosophy is an excellent introduction tophilosophy, especially as it is practiced in the analytictradition. I know of no other text which introduces students to thepractice of philosophy as this one does." Roger P. Ebertz,University of Dubuque

"The book is very well done, with an attractive combination ofbreadth and depth. Too often, introductory textbooks arecomprehensive at the cost of serious attention to importantspecifics. This book helps the introductory student get down to thecareful work of doing philosophy." David Sosa, Universityof Texas at Austin

"Reading Philosophy is useful and rewarding, and anatural for the philosophy shelves of any academic or academic'scollection." Reference Reviews, 2003