Reading Philosophy : Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners,9780631234388

Reading Philosophy : Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631234388
ISBN10: 0631234381
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-11-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This flexible introductory textbook explores several key themes in philosophy, and helps the reader learn to engage with the key arguments by introducing and analysing a selection of classic readings. Fully integrated introductory text with readings for beginning students of philosophy. Each chapter focusses on a core philosophical topic, and contains an introduction to the topic, 2 classic readings and interactive commentaries on the readings. An introductory book which doesn't merely tell the reader about the subject, but requires them to engage philosophically with the text. A pedagogical resource developed in the classroom by the authors at the University of London.

Author Biography

Samuel Guttenplan is a Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of The Languages of Logic (2nd edn, Blackwell, 1997), editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind (Blackwell, 1994) and executive editor of the journal Mind & Language.

Jennifer Hornsby taught philosophy at Oxford from 1978 to 1994, when she moved to Birkbeck College, as Professor. Her chief areas of publication are the philosophy of mind, action and language. She has also written about the impact of feminism on philosophy.

Christopher Janaway was educated at Oxford and has taught for the past twenty years at Birkbeck College, where he is currently Professor of Philosophy. His chief areas of publication are aesthetics, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

Table of Contents

Preface viii
University of London External Programme ix
Sources and Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1(5)
Doubt
6(12)
Introduction to the Problem
6(1)
Introduction to Descartes
7(4)
`First Meditation'
8(3)
Rene Descartes
Commentary on Descartes
11(7)
Self
18(23)
Introduction to the Problem
18(2)
Introduction to Descartes
20(4)
`Second Meditation' (extract)
20(4)
Rene Descartes
Commentary on Descartes
24(3)
Introduction to Strawson
27(8)
`Self, Mind and Body'
28(7)
P. F. Strawson
Commentary on Strawson
35(6)
Tragedy
41(29)
Introduction to the Problem
41(1)
Introduction to Hume
42(7)
`Of Tragedy'
43(6)
David Hume
Commentary on Hume
49(5)
Introduction to Feagin
54(11)
`The Pleasures of Tragedy'
55(10)
Susan L. Feagin
Commentary on Feagin
65(5)
Equality
70(36)
Introduction to the Problem
70(1)
Introduction to Williams
71(19)
`The Idea of Equality'
72(18)
Bernard Williams
Commentary on Williams
90(6)
Introduction to Nozick
96(6)
Anarchy, State and Utopia (extracts)
96(6)
Robert Nozick
Commentary on Nozick
102(4)
Dilemma
106(26)
Introduction to the Problem
106(3)
Introduction to Lemmon
109(9)
`Moral Dilemmas' (extract)
110(8)
E. J. Lemmon
Commentary on Lemmon
118(4)
Introduction to Mill
122(4)
Utilitarianism (extracts)
123(3)
John Stuart Mill
Commentary on Mill
126(6)
Identity
132(40)
Introduction to the Problem
132(4)
Introduction to Locke
136(9)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (extracts)
136(9)
John Locke
Commentary on Locke
145(5)
Introduction to Williams
150(16)
`The Self and the Future'
150(16)
Bernard Williams
Commentary on Williams
166(6)
Freedom
172(45)
Introduction to the Problem
172(1)
Introduction to Schopenhauer
173(15)
Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will (extracts)
173(15)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Commentary on Schopenhauer
188(4)
Introduction to Strawson
192(17)
`Freedom and Resentment' (extract)
193(16)
P. F. Strawson
Commentary on Strawson
209(8)
Causality
217(38)
Introduction to the Problem
217(1)
Introduction to Hume
218(13)
A Treatise of Human Nature (extracts)
220(11)
David Hume
Commentary on Hume
231(10)
Introduction to Anscombe
241(8)
`Causality and Determination' (extract)
241(8)
G. E. M. Anscombe
Commentary on Anscombe
249(6)
Qualities
255(35)
Introduction to Some Problems
255(2)
Introduction to Boyle and Locke
257(4)
The Origin of Forms and Qualities (extracts)
258(3)
Robert Boyle
Commentary on Boyle
261(10)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (extract)
265(6)
John Locke
Commentary on Locke
271(6)
Introduction to Berkeley
277(6)
The Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (extracts)
278(5)
George Berkeley
Commentary on Berkeley
283(4)
Further Questions
287(3)
Essay/Examination Questions 290(2)
Further Reading 292(5)
Index 297

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