Reading Philosophy

Author : Samuel Guttenplan
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631234381

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Reading Philosophy by Samuel Guttenplan Pdf

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.

Author : Samuel Guttenplan,Jennifer Hornsby,Christopher Janaway,John Schwenkler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119094685

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Reading Philosophy by Samuel Guttenplan,Jennifer Hornsby,Christopher Janaway,John Schwenkler Pdf

A key introductory philosophy textbook, making use of an innovative, interactive technique for reading philosophical texts Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners, Second Edition, provides a unique approach to reading philosophy, requiring students to engage with material as they read. It contains carefully selected texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about as she reads. It serves as starting points for both classroom discussion and independent study. The texts cover a wide range of topics drawn from diverse areas of philosophical investigation, ranging over ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and political philosophy. This edition has been updated and expanded. New chapters discuss the moral significance of friendship and love, the subjective nature of consciousness and the ways that science might explore conscious experience. And there are new texts and commentary in chapters on doubt, self and moral dilemmas. Guides readers through the experience of active, engaged philosophical reading Presents significant texts, contextualized for newcomers to philosophy Includes writings by philosophers from antiquity to the late 20th-century Contains commentary that provides the context and background necessary for discussion and argument Prompts readers to think through specific questions and to reach their own conclusions This book is an ideal resource for beginning students in philosophy, as well as for anyone wishing to engage with the subject on their own.

Author : Paul Kleinman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781440567681

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Philosophy 101 by Paul Kleinman Pdf

Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions! Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring details and exhausting philosophical methodology, and instead, gives you a lesson in philosophy that keeps you engaged as you explore the fascinating history of human thought and inquisition. From Aristotle and Heidegger to free will and metaphysics, Philosophy 101 is packed with hundreds of entertaining philosophical tidbits, illustrations, and thought puzzles that you won't be able to find anywhere else. So whether you're looking to unravel the mysteries of existentialism, or just want to find out what made Voltaire tick, Philosophy 101 has all the answers--even the ones you didn't know you were looking for.

Author : Bryan Magee
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780375750366

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Confessions of a Philosopher by Bryan Magee Pdf

In this infectiously exciting book, Bryan Magee tells the story of his own discovery of philosophy and not only makes it come alive but shows its relevance to daily life. Magee is the Carl Sagan of philosophy, the great popularizer of the subject, and author of a major new introductory history, The Story of Philosophy. Confessions follows the course of Magee's life, exploring philosophers and ideas as he himself encountered them, introducing all the great figures and their ideas, from the pre-Socratics to Bertrand Russell and Karl Popper, including Wittgenstein, Kant, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer, rationalism, utilitarianism, empiricism, and existentialism.

Author : Chris Case,Bob Underwood,Jesse Zuck
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441124562

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Philosophy Skills Book by Chris Case,Bob Underwood,Jesse Zuck Pdf

Built around practical exercises, this book helps students to practise and master core reading and writing skills crucial to the successful study of philosophy.

Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : OCLC:229397783

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How to Read a Book by Mortimer Jerome Adler Pdf

Author : Graham Oppy,Michael Scott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405170826

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Reading Philosophy of Religion by Graham Oppy,Michael Scott Pdf

Reading Philosophy of Religion combines a diverse selection of classical and contemporary texts in philosophy of religion with insightful commentaries. Offers a unique presentation through a combination of text and interactive commentary Provides a mix of classic and contemporary texts, including some not anthologized elsewhere Includes writings from thinkers such as Aquinas, Boethius, Hume, Plantinga and Putnam Divided into sections which examine religious language, the existence of God, reason, argument and belief, divine properties, and religious pluralism

Author : Wendy Swartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170951

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Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry by Wendy Swartz Pdf

"In a formative period of Chinese culture, early medieval writers made extensive use of a diverse set of resources, in which such major philosophical classics as Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Classic of Changes featured prominently. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry examines how these writers understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Focusing on works by some of the most important and innovative poets of the period, this book explores intertextuality—the transference, adaptation, or rewriting of signs—as a mode of reading and a condition of writing. It illuminates how a text can be seen in its full range of signifying potential within the early medieval constellation of textual connections and cultural signs.If culture is that which connects its members past, present, and future, then the past becomes an inherited and continually replenished repository of cultural patterns and signs with which the literati maintains an organic and constantly negotiated relationship of give and take. Wendy Swartz explores how early medieval writers in China developed a distinctive mosaic of ways to participate in their cultural heritage by weaving textual strands from a shared and expanding store of literary resources into new patterns and configurations."

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2025-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781804296172

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Between Existentialism and Marxism by Jean-Paul Sartre Pdf

This book presents a full decade of Sartre’s work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in 1971. The essays and interviews collected here form a vivid panorama of the range and unity of Sartre’s interests, since his deliberate attempt to wed his original existentialism to a rethought Marxism. A long and brilliant autobiographical interview, given to New Left Review in 1969, constitutes the best single overview of Sartre’s whole intellectual evolution. Three analytic texts on the US war in Vietnam, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the lessons of the May Revolt in France, define his political positions as a revolutionary socialist. Questions of philosophy and aesthetics are explored in essays on Kierkegaard, Mallarme and Tintoretto. Another section of the collection explores Sartre’s critical attitude to orthodox psychoanalysis as a therapy, and is accompanied by rejoinders from colleagues on his journal Les Temps Modernes. The volume concludes with a prolonged reflection on the nature and role of intellectuals and writers in advanced capitalism, and their relationship to the struggles of the exploited and oppressed classes. Between Existentialism and Marxism is an impressive demonstration of the breadth and vitality of Sartre's thought, and its capacity to respond to political and cultural changes in the contemporary world.

Author : Richard Kearney,Mara Rainwater
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415095255

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The Continental Philosophy Reader by Richard Kearney,Mara Rainwater Pdf

The Continental Philosophy Reader is the first complete anthology of classic writings from the major figures in European thought and provides a powerful introduction to one of the 20th century's most influential intellectual movements.

Author : Arkady Plotnitsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402052545

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Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy by Arkady Plotnitsky Pdf

This book offers a new perspective on Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics as complementarity, and on the relationships between physics and philosophy in Bohr's work. The importance of quantum field theory for Bohr's thinking has not been adequately addressed in the literature on Bohr. This book provides clarification of Bohr's writings (which usually pose problems of reading), and an analysis of the role of quantum field theory in Bohr's thinking.

Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191530609

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Reading Seneca by Brad Inwood Pdf

Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most influential essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD. Including two brand-new pieces, and a helpful introduction to orient the reader, this volume will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand Seneca's fertile, wide-ranging thought and its impact on subsequent generations. In each of these essays Seneca is considered as a philosopher, but with as much account as possible taken of his life, his education, his intellectual and literary background, his career, and his self-presentation as an author. Seneca emerges as a discerning and well-read Stoic, with a strong inclination to think for himself in the context of an intellectual climate teeming with influences from other schools. Seneca's intellectual engagement with Platonism, Aristotelianism, and even with Epicureanism involved a wide range of substantial philosophical interests and concerns. His philosophy was indeed shaped by the fact that he was a Roman, but he was a true philosopher shaped by his culture rather than a Roman writer trying his hand at philosophical themes. The highly rhetorical character of his writing must be accounted for when reading his works, and when one does so the underlying philosophical themes stand out more clearly. While it is hard to generalize about an overall intellectual agenda or systematic philosophical method, key themes and strategies are evident. Inwood shows how Seneca's philosophical ingenium worked itself out in a fundamentally particularistic way as he pursued those aspects of Stoicism that engaged him most forcefully over his career.

Author : Peter Gibson
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789504316

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A Degree in a Book: Philosophy by Peter Gibson Pdf

A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Philosophy provides you with all the concepts you need to understand the fundamental issues. Filled with helpful diagrams, suggestions for further reading, and easily digestible features on the history of philosophy, this book makes learning the subject easier than ever. Including ideas from Aristotle and Zeno to Descartes and Wittgenstein, it covers the whole range of western thought. By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to answer questions like: • What is truth? • What can I really know? • How can I live a moral life? • Do I have free will?

Author : Michelle Boulous Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134703043

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Philosophy and the Maternal Body by Michelle Boulous Walker Pdf

Philosophy and the Maternal Body gives a new voice to the mother and the maternal body which have often been viewed as silent within philosophy. Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how some male theorists have appropriated maternity, and suggests new ways of articulating the maternal body and women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood.

Author : Thomas M. Lennon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802082661

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Reading Bayle by Thomas M. Lennon Pdf

A critical but sympathetic treatment of Pierre Bayle. Once known as the 'Arsenal of the Enlightenment, ' his concepts were widely adopted by later thinkers, but since his time there has been nothing but disagreement about how Bayle is to be interpreted