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Publication date:
19 March 2015Length of book:
530 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781442242838
This seventh edition of The Study of Philosophy presents a comprehensive treatment of the major fields and figures of philosophy alongside primary readings by seminal thinkers to fuel debate and further study.
New features of this edition include
From Plato to Plantinga, from Aristotle to Ayer, and from Socrates to Singer, this text brings the power of both ancient and modern philosophy to students of the twenty-first century!
New features of this edition include
- a substantive account of philosophical theology
- a reorganized treatment of early modern rationalism and empiricism
- discussion of the major highlights of twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy
- a survey of major contemporary moral problems
From Plato to Plantinga, from Aristotle to Ayer, and from Socrates to Singer, this text brings the power of both ancient and modern philosophy to students of the twenty-first century!
The new edition of The Study of Philosophy retains the impressive coverage of topics of earlier editions—along with the excellent chapters on logic (including a superb treatment of the informal fallacies), and the student-friendly narrative—and adds many new, well-chosen topical readings, and a whole chapter on contemporary moral problems. The best introductory philosophy textbook on the market just got better!