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9781405108270: Philosophy: The Big Questions
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ISBN 10: 1405108274 ISBN 13: 9781405108270
Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Sinopsis

Philosophy: The Big Questions occupies a unique position among introductory texts in philosophy. Designed for a single-semester introductory course in philosophy, it includes both classic readings in philosophy and newer articles.


  • Presents, in one volume, canonical and contemporary works in ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and epistemology.
  • Topics discussed include knowledge, religion, freedom, morality, and the meaning of life.
  • Serves as a comprehensive and compelling introduction to philosophy.
  • Together with traditional readings it also presents non-traditional, feminist eadings from a continental perspectives.

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Acerca del autor

Ruth J. Sample is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. She teaches social and political philosophy, early modern philosophy, and feminist philosophy, and is the author of Exploitation: What It Is and Why It’s Wrong (2003).


Charles W. Mills is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He works in the area of oppositional political theory and is the author of three books: The Racial Contract (1997), Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998), and From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003).

James P. Sterba is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where he teaches ethics and political philosophy. His publications include How to Make People Just (1988), Feminist Philosophies (2nd edn., 1995), Justice for Here and Now (1998), Earth Ethics (2nd edn., 2000), Three Challenges to Ethics (2001),and Morality in Practice (7th edn., 2003).

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Philosophy: The Big Questionsoccupies a unique position among introductory texts in philosophy. Designed for a single-semester introductory course in philosophy, it includes both classic readings in philosophy and newer articles. The text is organized around central problems in philosophy and the diverse approaches that philosophers have taken toward those problems.

Readers of this innovative and accessible volume will encounter canonical works in the history of philosophy, and at the same time see the relevance of philosophy to topics they have encountered in their everyday lives.

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Editorial
Wiley-Blackwell
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1405108274
ISBN 13 
9781405108270
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
544
Editor
Sample Ruth J., Mills Charles W., Sterba James P.
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