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Looking at Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter

by Donald Palmer

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Distilled from Donald Palmer's more than 30 years of teaching experiences, this approachable text, historically organized text exemplifies Dr. Palmer's very successful light-hearted approach to teaching introduction to philosophy. Through the use of humor, drawings, charts, and diagrams, serious philosophical topics come alive for the readers--without compromising the seriousness of the subject matter. The text can be used as a core text or as a supplement to any reader.

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Palmer (emeritus, College of Marin) says this is not the philosophy book composed entirely of jokes that Wittgenstein once proposed, quite. He takes philosophy seriously but not gravely as a way to introduce the discipline to students. The latest edition includes new cartoon-like illustrations and enhances the sections of the pre-Socratics, Descartes, and Kantian thought. No dates are mentioned for earlier ones.
Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents

1. THE PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS: SIXTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES B.C.E.

Thales / Anaximander / Anaximenes / Pythagoras / Heraclitus / Parmenides / Zeno / Empedocles / Anaxagoras / Leucippus and Democritus

2. THE ATHENIAN PERIOD: FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES B.C.E.

The Sophists: Protagoras, Gorgias, Thrasymachus, Callicles and Critias / Socrates / Plato / Aristotle

3. THE HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PERIODS: FOURTH CENTURY B.C.E THROUGH FOURTH CENTURY C.E.

Epicureanism / Stoicism / Neoplatonism

4. MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY: FIFTH THROUGH THE FIFTEENTH CENTURIES

Saint Augustine / The Encyclopediasts / John Scotus Eriugena / Saint Anselm / Muslim and Jewish Philosophies: Averroës, Maimonides / The Problem of Faith and Reason / The Problem of the Universals / Saint Thomas Aquinas / William of Ockham / Renaissance Philosophers

5. CONTINENTAL RATIONALISM AND BRITISH EMPIRICISM: THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

Descartes / Hobbes / Spinoza / Leibniz / Locke / Berkeley / Hume / Kant

6. POST-KANTIAN BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Hegel / Schopenhauer / Kierkegaard / Marx / Nietzsche / Utilitarianism: Bentham, Mill / Frege

7. PRAGMATISM, THE ANALYTIC TRADITION, AND THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL TRADITION AND ITS AFTERMATH: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Pragmatism: James, Dewey / The Analytic Tradition: Moore, Russell, Logical Positivism, Wittgenstein, Quine / The Phenomenological Tradition and Its Aftermath: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre / Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Derrida, Irigaray

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ISBN:
9780072828955
Author:
Palmer, Donald
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
Subject:
General
Subject:
American wit and humor, pictorial
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
History & Surveys - General
Subject:
General Philosophy
Subject:
Philosophy-Surveys
Copyright:
Edition Number:
4
Publication Date:
June 2005
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
446
Dimensions:
9.26x6.48x.69 in. 1.31 lbs.

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