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More copies of this ISBN:Discovering Philosophy, Portfolio Editionby Thomas I. White
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:How can we understand the world around us? How do we become happy? How do our minds work?
Discovering Philosophy looks at these and other fundamental questions. Specially designed for students who are more comfortable with secondary than with primary sources, Discovering Philosophy is a comprehensive introduction that is accessible and intellectually engaging. It relates philosophical issues to students’ own experiences and challenges them to do philosophy on their own.
The new Portfolio Edition draws on popular culture, from Harry Potter to “The Matrix.” It includes basic elements of symbolic logic, informal fallacies, discussions of ethical relativism, and string theory, fuller discussions of Kant, and of democracy as a value, and a questionnaire for students based on Mill’s idea that there are qualitative differences in pleasures and pains. Synopsis:"Discovering Philosophy" is a comprehensive introduction to philosophy that is specially designed for readers who are more comfortable with secondary, rather than primary sources. Using more accessible content that is unintimidating yet intellectually engaging, it relates the philosophical issues to readers' own experiences and challenges them to "do" philosophy on their own. Presents excerpts from primary sources when appropriate, but relies primarily on summaries, explanations, and discussions of the major arguments on the issues involved; teaches readers not so much about what philosophers think, but how to think philosophically themselves; demonstrates that after understanding a philosopher's position we are supposed to "react" to it, not memorize it; explores the major, traditional areas and topics of philosophy - logic, free will/determinism, ethics, political obligation, the nature of reality, knowledge, the existence of God, the meaning of life. About the AuthorThomas I. White is the Hilton Professor of Business Ethics and the Director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount. Table of ContentsI. INTRODUCTION.
1. What Is Philosophy?
2. Philosophical Thinking.
II. EXPLORING THE BASICS OF WHO WE ARE AND DEALING WITH OTHERS.
3. The Case for Determinism.
4. The Case for Freedom.
5. Right and Wrong.
6. Why Be Ethical?
7. Democracy.
III. FUNDAMENTAL THEORETICAL ISSUES
8. The Nature of Reality.
9. What Is Knowledge?
10. Does God Exist?
11. The Purpose of Life: Marx and Buddha.
IV. CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
12. Scientific Explanations of Reality.
13. Does Gender Affect How We Think?
14. Is a Dolphin a “Person”?
A FINAL WORD.
Glossary.
Appendix: Writing about Philosophy.
Index.
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