Looking at Philosophy The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter

Name: Looking at Philosophy The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter
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ISBN: 9780073407487

ISBN-10: 0073407488

ISBN-13: 9780073407487

Edition: 5th 2010

Authors: Donald Palmer

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Distilled from Donald Palmer's more than 30 years of teaching experiences, this approachable, 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.

Book details

List price: $80.00
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 6/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Pre-Socratic Philosophers


Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C.E.


Thales


Anaximander


Anaximenes


Pythagoras


Xenophanes


Heraclitus


Parmenides


Zeno


Empedocles


Anaxagoras


Leucippus and Democritus



The Athenian Period


Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.


The Sophists


Protagoras


Gorgias


Thrasymachus


Callicles and Critias


Socrates


Plato


Aristotle



The Hellenistic and Roman Periods


Fourth Century B.C.E. through Fourth Century C.E.


Epicureanism


Stoicism


Neoplatonism



Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy


Fifth through Fifteenth Centuries


Saint Augustine


The Encyclopediasts


John Scotus Eriugena


Saint Anselm


Muslim and Jewish Philosophies


Averro&eumlet;s


Maimonides


The Problem of Faith and Reason


The Problem of the Universals


Saint Thomas Aquinas


William of Ockham


Renaissance Philosophers



Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism


The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries


Descartes


Hobbes


Spinoza


Leibniz


Locke


Berkeley


Hume


Kant



Post-Kantian British and Continental Philosophy


The Nineteenth Century


Hegel


Schopenhauer


Kierkegaard


Marx


Nietzsche


Utilitarianism


Bentham


Mill


Frege



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


Lï¿½vi-Strauss


Lacan


Derrida


Farewell to the Twentieth Century


Nussbaum


Glossary of Philosophical Terms


Selected Bibliography


Index