4 edition of Philosophy and Contemporary Problems found in the catalog.
Philosophy and Contemporary Problems
Richard H. Popkin
by Holt Rinehart & Winston
Written in English
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|Number of Pages||512|
Contemporary Moral Problems is a course, as the name suggests, on moral problems that people in the world are dealing with today. You are dealing with moral problems or issues in your life even today. The category of things that can be labeled a moral problem is quite large, and this course certainly cannot deal with them all. Contemporary philosophy of action has tended to focus not on joint action but on the action of an individual person. A notion central to the philosophy of action is that of intention. It is commonly argued that what distinguishes an action (such as a man raising his arm) from a mere bodily movement (such as his arm rising) is an intention.
Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Ancient Philosophy for Modern Problems” as Want to Read: book which summarizes the major strands of classical philosophy and describes how they might be incorporated into contemporary life/5. The Problems of Philosophy Contents: Appearance and reality -- The existence of matter -- The nature of matter -- Idealism -- Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description -- On induction -- On our knowledge of general principles -- How a priori knowledge is possible -- The world of universals -- On our knowledge of universals -- On.
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No other book about contemporary philosophy is as comprehensive and cosmopolitan. The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy provides newcomers and seasoned philosophers alike with an entertaining, engaging, and far-reaching portrait of today's philosophical landscape.
It is an exemplary instance of thinking across and beyond the analytic/continental divide.4/5(1). Philosophy and Contemporary Problems: A Reader [Popkin, Richard H., Stroll, Avrum] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Philosophy and Contemporary Problems: A Cited by: 2.
The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy provides newcomers and seasoned philosophers alike with an entertaining, engaging, and far-reaching portrait of today's philosophical landscape. It is an exemplary instance of thinking across and beyond the analytic/continental divide.4/5(1).
The book is ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy and the history of psychology and will be useful both as a reference for researchers 5/5(1).
One of the most successful volumes in its field over the last 20 years, Philosophy and Contemporary Issues introduces today's readers to philosophy with timely, approachable readings of philosophical significance. The authors strive to demonstrate how philosophy illuminates and helps solve some of the important problems facing contemporary man, and they encourage readers/5.
This accessible new book provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the defining problems of contemporary philosophy. Its unique feature is to focus on problems that cut across the established divide between analytic and continental philosophical traditions. Instead of segregating the two traditions, as is usually done, the authors offer a critical orientation and guide for readers who.
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The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy Dr. Paul Livingston. This accessible new book provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the defining problems of contemporary philosophy. Its unique feature is to focus on problems that cut across the established divide between “analytic” and “continental” philosophical traditions.
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This anthology covers divergent viewpoints on many timely issues and introduces students to the major theories in the history of Western by: in contemporary philosophy and offers students an accessible but substantial transition from introductory to higher-level college work in that series is accessible to non-specialists and each book clearly motivates and expounds the problems and positions introduced.
An File Size: 1MB. When I began writing introductory philosophy books in the late s, the only introductions that were readily available were The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell, which was published inand a book called Philosophy Made Simple – which was actually a good book, but people found the title off-putting because it sounded like it.
The New Problems of Philosophy series provides accessible and engaging surveys of the most important problems in contemporary philosophy.
Each book examines a topic or theme that has emerged on the philosophical landscape in recent years, or that is a longstanding problem refreshed in light of recent work in philosophy and related disciplines.
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No book on philosophy aiming to condense years of deep philosophical education into pages of a manifesto can possibly do justice to the task but Jules armed with journalistic eloquence managed to pull it off with this contemporary by: 1. Philosophy and Contemporary Issues contains contemporary readings of philosophical significance designed to introduce philosophy to college and university students.
The authors' goal is to demonstrate how philosophy illuminates and helps solve some of the important problems facing contemporary man. This edition contains additional readings. 9 Mind-Expanding Books Of Philosophy That Are Actually Readable (A Guide To Practical Philosophy) But it turns out that this was exactly what philosophy can help with.
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Book Description. Sculpture has been a central aspect of almost every art culture, contemporary or historical. This volume comprises thirteen essays at the cutting edge of thinking about sculpture in philosophical terms, representing approaches to sculpture from the perspectives of both Anglo-American and European philosophy.
If you wish to see only contemporary issues, then we will set aside all of the classic issues that arose in the days of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (ca. BC). Oddly, this excludes most of the philosophical issues, period. We now have a much s. general subject in contemporary philosophy and offers students an access-ible but substantial transition from introductory to higher-level college work in that subject.
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