Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Eighth Edition
Philosophy is a truly exciting and accessible subject, and this engaging text acquaints students with the core problems of philosophy and the many ways in which they are and have been answered. The book insists that philosophy is very much alive today but is also deeply rooted in the past. Accordingly, Introducing Philosophy combines substantial original sources from significant works in the history of philosophy and current philosophy with detailed commentary and explanation that help to clarify the readings. The selections range from the oldest known fragments to cutting-edge essays in feminism, multiculturalism, and cognitive science.
Addressing the needs of a new generation of students, editor Robert C. Solomon has enhanced the eighth edition of Introducing Philosophy with more than 300 new study and review questions. Appearing throughout the text and gathered at the ends of selections and chapters, these questions require immediate feedback from students. They encourage students to articulate the central ideas of what they have just read, instead of just "passing through" on the way to the next reading. Each chapter is followed by a summary, a glossary, and a bibliography with suggestions for further readings. Important philosophical terms are carefully introduced within the text and also summarized at the end of each chapter, and brief biographies of the philosophers are provided at the end of the book. The eighth edition also features several new selections that expand and update the chapters on religion, knowledge, mind and body, freedom, ethics, politics, and aesthetics.
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In About the Book you will find the following information:
- About the Author
- Highlights of the Eighth Edition Changes
- Key Features of the Text
- And the full Table of Contents
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