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1 online resource (439 pages) |
| Series |
The Facts On File Guide to Philosophy |
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Facts On File Guide to Philosophy
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Western Philosophy, from the Greeks to the Renaissance; Introductory Discussion Questions; The Greek Miracle; Elements and the Nature of Change; Heraclitus and Change; Changelessness and Mathematics; Greek Atomism; Sophists and Socrates; Plato; Aristotle; Hellenistic Philosophy; Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Concluding Discussion Questions; Further Reading; Glossary; Key People; Part II: Modern Philosophy; Introductory Discussion Questions; An Overview of Modern Philosophy; Introduction to Empiricism and Rationalism; René Descartes; Thomas Hobbes |
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Baruch SpinozaGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; John Locke; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; George Berkeley; David Hume; Immanuel Kant; Concluding Discussion Questions; Further Reading; Glossary; Key People; Part III: Continental Philosophy; Introductory Discussion Questions; Introduction to Continental Philosophy; Hegel and German Idealism; Karl Marx; Soren Kierkegaard; Friedrich Nietzsche; Phenomenology; Edmund Husserl; Martin Heidegger; Existentialism; Jean-Paul Sartre; Simone de Beauvoir; Hermeneutics; Critical Theory; Structuralism; Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, and Postmodernism |
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Continental Philosophy TodayConcluding Discussion Questions; Further Reading; Glossary; Key People; Part IV: Analytic Philosophy; Introductory Discussion Questions; Analytic Philosophy; Gottlob Frege; G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell; The Early Work of Ludwig Wittgenstein; Logical Positivism; Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations; Ordinary Language Philosophy; Willard Van Orman Quine; New Developments; More Recent Developments--Saul Kripke; Pragmatist Responses to Analytic Philosophy; Concluding Discussion Questions; Further Reading; Glossary; Key People; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Middleton, Kari
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| ISBN |
9781438138862 |
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1438138865 |
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