Six Philosophical Appetizers

Jacquette, Dale

ISBN 10: 0073659347 / ISBN 13: 9780073659343

Edité par McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2000

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• Titre: Six Philosophical Appetizers
• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0073659347
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780073659343
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Are you curious about philosophy, but unsure about how to begin? This brief, affordable book can help you get started by offering a selection of bitesize philosophical reasonings to sample. If you are new to philosophy, then these appetizers in just a few pages present a concise overview of some of the main problems and methods of philosophy. This book invites you to think systematically about some of the most intellectually challenging and personally important areas of inquiry of philosophy. It poses – and proposes answers to – a series of philosophical questions, which are illustrated by examples from everyday life and by many imaginative thought experiments.

The topics include the meaning of life, the possibility of knowledge, the concept of mind as it relates to the freedom of will, the existence and nature of God, the difference and reasons for choosing between moral right and wrong, and the practice, scope, and limitations of philosophy itself. To concentrate attention on these problems, no philosophers or philosophical writings are referred to by name, and no prior background in philosophical methods or the history of philosophy is assumed.

A companion collection of readings, Philosophical Entrées: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy, also published by McGraw-Hill, is designed to accompany Six Philosophical Appetizers. The six sections of readings in the Entrées are main courses, philosophical food for thought. They correspond to, provide historical background for, and illustrate each of the six philosophical topics of the Appetizers.

À propos de l?auteur

Dale Jacquette is Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Oberlin College in 1975, and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brown University in 1983. He has written or edited fifteen books, including Philosophy of Mind (1984), Meinongian Logic (1996), Wittgenstein's Thought in Transition (1998), and the collection, Schopenhauer, Philosophy, and the Arts (1996), and has published more than 150 articles in professional philosophical journals. He has received research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Alexander von Humbodt-Stiftung, and in 1996 held the J. William Fulbright Distinguished Lecture Chair in Contemporary Philosophy of Language at the University of Venice, Italy. His principal research interests include logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, Wittengstein, and aesthetics.