Thinking it through : an introduction to contemporary philosophy / / Kwame Anthony Appiah

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820280703321
• Autore: Appiah Anthony
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0-19-773188-0; 1-280-53257-2; 0-19-803635-3; 0-19-518393-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (431 pages)
• Disciplina: 100
• Soggetti: Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-391) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Introduction: A Few Preliminaries; CHAPTER 1: MIND; CHAPTER 2: KNOWLEDGE; CHAPTER 3 : LANGUAGE; CHAPTER 4 : SCIENCE; CHAPTER 5 : MORALITY; CHAPTER 6 : POLITICS; CHAPTER 7 : LAW; CHAPTER 8 : METAPHYSICS; CHAPTER 9 : PHILOSOPHY; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book aims to help readers make sense of the big issues in philosophy: Mind, Knowledge, Language, Science, Morality, Politics, Law and Metaphysics. The book allows readers with no previous exposure to professional philosophy to gain an understanding of the approaches and the positions current in the field and to prepare them to read further.