Reading Philosophy - Selected Texts With a Method for Beginners

A key introductory philosophy textbook, making use of an innovative, interactive technique for reading philosophical textsReading 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 they read. 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.

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• Authors: S Guttenplan, Samue Guttenplan, Samuel Guttenplan, Samuel (Birkbeck College Guttenplan, Samuel (Birkbeck College London) Guttenplan, Samuel (Birkbeck College London) Horns Guttenplan, Samuel Hornsby Guttenplan, Guttenplan Samuel, Jennife Hornsby, Jennifer Hornsby, Jennifer (Birkbeck College London) Hornsby, Chri Janaway, Christopher Janaway, Christopher (University of Southampton) Janaway, Janaway Christopher, John Schwenkler
• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781119094678
• ISBN: 978-1-119-09467-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 245 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Reading Philosophy
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophie, Philosophy, Introductions to Philosophy, Einführungen in die Philosophie, Allg. Philosophie