Introducing Philosophy: A text with integrated readings

By:

Solomon, Robert C

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford University PressEdition: Eighth EditionDescription: PaperbackISBN:

0195174623

Subject(s):

Philosophy

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Philosophy is an 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. Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Eighth Edition, insists both that philosophy is very much alive today and that it is deeply rooted in the past. Accordingly, it 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. At the end of each chapter is a summary, a list of review questions, a glossary, and a bibliography with suggestions for further reading. Important philosophical terms are carefully introduced in 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. New to the Eighth Edition: * Addressing the needs of a new generation of students, Robert C. Solomon has included for the first time more than 300 study and review questions. Appearing throughout the text and at the end of each chapter, 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. * New selections expand and update the chapters on religion, knowledge, mind and body, freedom, ethics, justice, and beauty. The selections include work by Charles Hartshorne, Paul Davies, Cory Juhl, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sextus Empiricus, Edmund L. Gettier, David Braddon-Mitchell and Frank Jackson, John R. Searle, Colin McGinn, Daniel Dennett, Harry Frankfurt, Gilbert Harman, Emma Goldman, and Arthur C. Danto. * A companion website at www.oup.com/us/solomon8e features 300 study and review questions (100 multiple-choice, 100 true-or-false, and 100 fill-in-the-blank), discussion questions, chapter overviews and summaries, topical links, suggestions for further reading, and PowerPoint lecture aids.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Chapters 1-10 end with Summary and Conclusion, Glossary, and Bibliography and Further Readings sections
Preface
Introduction: Philosophy
A Socrates
From The Clouds
From The Apology; from The Crito
B What Is Philosophy?
From The Apology
From Tao Te Ching
C A Modern Approach to Philosophy
From Discourse on Method
D A Brief Introduction to Logic
1 Deductive Arguments
2 Inductive Arguments
3 Argument by Analogy
4 Argument by Counter-Example
5 Reductio ad Absurdum
6 The Worst Kind of Fallacies
Glossary
Bibliography and Further Reading
Part One The World and Beyond
Chapter 1 Reality
A "The Way The World Really Is"
B The First Philosophers: The "Turning Point of Civilization"
From The "Axial Period"
C The Early Greek Philosophers
1 The Ionian Naturalists
2 Monism, Materialism, and Immaterial "Stuff"
3 Heraclitus
4 Democritus, Atoms, and Pluralism
5 Animism
6 Pythagoras
7 The Appearance/Reality Distinction
8 Parmenides
9 The Sophists
10 Metaphysics
D Ultimate Reality in the East: India, Persia, and China
1 Reality as Spirit: The Upanishads
2 Reality, Good, and Evil: Zarathustra
3 Confucius
4 Lao Tsu, or the Poets of Tao Te Ching
5 Buddha
The "Fire-Sermon"
E Two Kinds of Metaphysics: Plato and Aristotle
1 Plato
From The Republic; from The Meno
2 Aristotle
F Modern Metaphysics: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz
1 Rene Descartes
On Substance
2 Benedictus de Spinoza
From Ethics
3 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
From Monadology
Chapter 2 Religion
A What is Religion?
From "Gods"
On the Design of the Universe
From "What Is Religion?"
B The Western Religions
1 The Traditional Conception of God
2 Can We Know That God Exists?
The Ontological Argument
The Ontological Argument
Against the Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
The "Fifth Way"
An Imperfect Universe
C Religion, Morality, and Evil
1 Religion and "Practical Reason"
On God and Morality
From "The Will to Believe"
2 The Problem of Evil
From Confessions
3 Hinduism, Buddhism, Karma, and Compassion
D
ibn-Rushd, on the Philosophic Study of God
From The Brothers Karamazov
E Faith and Irrationality
1 God as Experience
From The Deliverance from Error
2 The Leap of Faith
On Subjective Truth
3 God as Ultimate Concern
The Ultimate Concern
F
From Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
From Beyond Good and Evil and The Antichrist
From The Joyful Wisdom
From The Future of an Illusion
Chapter 3 Knowledge
From The Problems of Philosophy
From the Theatetus
A The Rationalist''s Confidence: Descartes
From "Meditation I"; from "Meditation II"; from "Meditation VI"
B Innate Ideas Concerning Human Understanding
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Leibniz''s Rebuttal, from New Essays on the Human Understanding
C The Empiricist Theory of Knowledge
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
D Common Sense Undone
From the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
E The Congenial Skeptic
From A Treatise of Human Nature; from the Enquiry
F An Ancient Skeptic: Nagarjuna
G Double Vision: A Non-Western Feminist Perspective
On Feminist Epistemology
Chapter 4 Trutha
Two Kinds of Truth
1 Analytic Truths
From Metaphysics
From The Critique of Pure Reason
2 Truths about the World
B Theories of Truth
1 The Coherence Theory
On the Coherence Theory
2 The Pragmatic Theory
From "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"
On the Pragmatic Theory
3 The Semantic Theory
From "The Semantic Theory of Truth"
C Kant''s Revolution
From Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
D The Battle in Europe after Kant: Relativism and Absolutism
1 Hegel
From The Phenomenology of Spirit; from Reason in History
2 Schopenhauer
From The World as Will and Representation
3 Nietzsche
From Various Works
E Phenomeonology
From The 1929 Paris Lectures
Pragmatism, and Feminism: Relativism Reconsidered
From "Solidarity or Objectivity?"
From "Cultural Gaps: Why Do We Misunderstand?"
On Feminist Knowledge
Part Two Know Thy Self
Chapter 5 Self
A Consciousness and the Self: From Descartes to Kant
From "Meditation VI"
On Personal Identity
"There Is No Self"
Against the Soul
"Personal Identity"
B Existentialism: Self-Identity and the Responsibility of Choice
On Existentialism; on Bad Faith; from No Exit
C The Individual and the Community
On the Dispensability of Consciousness
On "The Public"; on Self and Passion
"Dasein" and the "They"
On Individualism
1 Voices of Protest
On Being "African"; from "At the Audobon"
From "Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?"
On Androgyny
2 Beyond "Individualism"
"Spirit" and the Individual
A Retort
On the Social Self
D One Self? Any Self? Questioning the Concept of Personal "Essence"
From Steppenwolf
From The Sex Which Is Not One
From "The Man of Reason"From the Dhammapada
Tao Te Ching, 13
Chapter 6 Mind and Bodya
What Is Consciousness?
Rene Descartes, from "Meditation VI"; from "Meditation III"
B The Problem of Dualism
The Economist, "A Tour of the Brain"
Rene Descartes, from "The Passions of the Soul"
C The Rejection of Dualism
1 Radical Behaviorism
2 Logical Behaviorism
"Descartes'' Myth"
3 The Identity Theory
"Sensations and Brain Processes"
Against the Identity Theory
4 Eliminative Materialism
On Eliminative Materialism
5 Functionalism: The Mind and the Computer
From "The Myth of the Computer"
6 Connectionism
D The Problem of Consciousness
On the "Unconscious"
"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
1 Changing Our Minds: Holism and Consciousness
From De Anima
From "Does Consciousness Exist?"
Chapter 7 Freedoma
Fatalism and Karma
From Oedipus the King
On Fate
B Predestination
St. Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will, Book II
From "The Human Ego: Its Freedom and Immortality"
On the Yoruba Ori
From "Freedom of the Will"
C Determinism
1 Hard Determinism
From System of Nature
2 Determinism versus Indeterminism
On Indeterminism
3 The Role of Consciousness
4 Soft Determinism
On Causation and Necessity
On Causation and Character
From "Wiggle Room"
D Compulsion and Ignorance
On Voluntary Action
From "What Means This Freedom?"
1 Conditioning
Beyond Freedom
Beyond Skinner
From A Clockwork Orange
On Coercion of Women''s Sexuality
E Freedom in Practice
"Coercion and Moral Responsibility"
"The Dilemma of Negro Americans"
F Radical Freedom: Existentialism
From "Absolute Freedom"
From "The Most Advantageous Advantage"
From "Turning on the Television"
Part Three The Good and The Beautiful
Chapter 8 Ethics
A Morality
B Is Morality Relative?

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Robert C. Solomon is at University of Texas, Austin.