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For nearly two decades, "Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of
Science" has distinguished itself as the standard for texts
specifically designed to meet the needs of beginning students.
Retaining the best essays from the first two editions, the editors
have added ten important new selections to maintain this
influential text's relevance for today and tomorrow. Readings cover
such timely and important topics as feminism and the sciences, the
effects of science on society, the natural versus the social
sciences, and science and human values. There are also new study
questions and case studies, updated section introductions, revised
select bibliographies for each section, and a valuable appendix for
instructors.
This new, second edition of the popular college textbook offers the
beginning philosophy student a comprehensive introduction to
several aspects of one of the most influential schools of thought
in the twentieth century. Professor Klemke begins by pointing out
the distinctions among the various types of analytic and linguistic
philosophies, while emphasising that they all arose as a response
to the formerly predominant school of absolute idealism. After a
prologue section containing a representative exposition of idealism
by Josiah Royce, the following sections show the radically new
philosophical approach of the analytic school in its various
guises: realism and common sense (G. E. Moore); logical atomism
(Bertrand Russell); logical positivism (A. J. Ayer); conceptual
analysis (Gilbert Ryle, G. E. Moore, John Wisdom);
logico-metaphysical analysis (Gustav Bergman, W. V. Quine);
linguistic analysis (J. L. Austin, P. F. Strawson, J. R. Searle);
and the recent development of new realism (Saul Kripke, Hilary
Putnam, Tyler Burge, Richard N. Boyd).
The Meaning of Life is the preeminent anthology on the topic.
Featuring twenty-five insightful selections by prominent
philosophers, it serves as an ideal core text for courses on the
meaning of life and introduction to philosophy courses where the
topic is emphasized. In Part I the articles defend the view that
without faith in God, life has no meaning or purpose. In Part II
the selections oppose this claim, defending instead a nontheistic,
humanistic alternative-that life can have meaning even in the
absence of theistic commitment. In Part III the readings address
whether the question of the meaning of life is itself meaningful. A
new Part IV on the end of life raises issues about how
understanding death affects our understanding of the meaning of
life.
In this volume, I have given attention to what I consider to be
some of the central problems and topics in the philosophical
thought of SJ2jren Kierkegaard. Some of the chapters have been
previously publish ed but were revised for their appearance here.
Others were written expressly for this book. I have tried to focus
on issues which have not been customarily dealt with or emphasized
in the scholarship on Kierkegaard with the exception of the
writings of David Swenson and Paul L. Holmer to which (and to whom)
I am greatly indebted. Some of the positions for which I have
argued in this volume (especially in Chapters IV and V) may be
controversial. I am grateful to all those who enabled me to carry
out or influenced me in my studies of Kierkegaard or who assisted
with regard to the research for or preparation of this volume.
Among these are: Professors Paul L. Holmer, F. Arthur Jacobson, and
Dennis A. Rohatyn; Dean Wallace A. Russell and Vice President
Daniel J. Zaffarano of Iowa State University."
The Epistemology of G. E. Moore is an examination of the philosophy
of G. E. Moore, one of the foremost Anglo-American, analytic
philosophers of the twentieth century.This book, together with
Reinhardt Grossmann's Reflections on Frege's Philosophy and Moltke
Gram's Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori, seeks to redress an
imbalance in analytic philosophy by making a case for the relevance
of analytically oriented historical studies to contemporary
problems. It focuses on Moore's epistemological writings and aims
to present an exhaustive overview of Moore's work on this topic.
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