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Fundamentals of Philosophy, 7/E
David Stewart, Ohio University
H. Gene Blocker, Ohio University
James Petrik, Ohio University

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Copyright: 2010
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Published: 08/19/2009
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For Introduction to Philosophy courses.

An accessible reader/text for beginning students of philosophy, this volume offers a broad scope of diverse classic and contemporary selections – with a narrative and format that presents difficult issues and readings in a simplified but not condescending manner. The readings are grouped around major philosophic themes: logic, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of art, and social and political philosophy. It also offers a selection of readings from Eastern philosophy.

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· 50-50 mix of readings and text

o Each chapter contains a selection from a major philosopher with ample explanatory text, exposing students to the philosophers themselves, but helping them understand these often difficult texts

· Chapter on the history of philosophy.

o Gives students an introduction to the history of ideas.

· Article dealing with critical thinking.

o Provides students with a discussion of techniques essential to understanding even elementary philosophical concepts.

· An appealing mix of classic and contemporary works

o Includes many selections and authors rarely found in first-course volumes.

o Introduces students to all major areas of philosophy and a full range of philosophical questions.

· Accessible writing style and narrative introductions to all readings.

o Promotes a better understanding of the issues, concerns, and questions for each particular area of philosophy explored.

· A logical approach

o Organizes readings within each section as a debate on one central issue or problem.

o Helps students appreciate the argumentative style of philosophy.

· A section on logical and analytical techniques (Often omitted in first-year courses.)

o Presents students with discussions/readings on necessary and sufficient conditions, inductive arguments, causal reasoning, definition, analysis, and the difference between truth and validity.

· An entire section on Eastern thought

o Focuses on philosophical, rather than religious, issues in Eastern thought (Hindu, Confucian, and Buddhist).

o Explains the need to view Oriental philosophies as not merely Eastern versions of Western ideas, and thus helps break down a prejudice that all important thought is Western.

· Section on "Recent Developments" in each of the nine Parts (Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, etc.)

o Helps students understand that philosophy, while ancient, is also contemporary and engaged in issues of importance today

- Biographies and pictures of all major philosophers.

o Stimulates interest in the issues by situating each philosopher's position within the context of her/his life.

· Questions for discussion (Within each chapter.)

o Encourages students to understand philosophy as a living discipline that draws from its past in order to deal with current issues.

· Glossary of Terms

o Provides easy access to important philosophical terminology.

· Instructor Materials

o Separate accompanying Instructor's Manual

o Includes brief overview, suggested classroom activities, suggested answers to Questions for Discussion for each chapter, and test bank of questions with answers to all objective questions.

New To This Edition

New co-author, James Petrik
Two new chapters on metaphysical problems (the problem of identity and the problem of freedom and determinism)
- Covers a wider range of classic metaphysical issues of greater relevance to contemporary students’ interests.
New chapter on neo-pragmatism
Expanded selection from Kant’s Groundwork in Part 5 to include his four illustrations.
Expanded ontological argument for the existence of God in Part 6 to include an extended discussion of the need to prove the logical coherence of the idea of God’s nature.
Discourse on the Problem of Evil in Part 6 now includes a lengthier discussion of Augustinian approaches to the problem.
Completed the shift in Part 8 (Social and Political Philosophy) of previous editions to the tension between the individual and the society (individualism and communitarian values).
Focused Part 9 (Eastern Thought) on the more philosophical, rather than the more religious writings of Hindu, Confucian, and Buddhist writers.
Separate accompanying Instructor's Manual - includes:

brief overview
suggested classroom activities
suggested answers to Questions for Discussion for each chapter
test bank of questions with answers to all objective questions

Table of Contents

I. WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?

1. The Activity of Philosophy.

2. Philosophy and Popular Culture

READING: Stewart, Philosophical Themes in Popular Culture.

3. Philosophy's History.

4. Philosophy and the Examined Life.

READING: Socrates, In Defense of Philosophy.

Recent Developments in Philosophy.

II. THINKING ABOUT THINKING (LOGIC).

5. The Life of Reason.

6. Argument Forms.

7. Induction and the Philosophy of Science.

8. Strategies for Philosophical Argument.

READING: Thomas A. Shipka, Are You a Critical Thinker?

Recent Developments in Logic.

III. WHAT IS REAL? (METAPHYSICS).

9. Introduction to Metaphysics.

10. Appearance and Reality

READING: Plato, The Republic

11. Materialism

READING: Epicurus, First Principle of Materialism.

12. Idealism.

READING: George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.

13. The Mind-Body Problem and Personal Identity

READING: Alfred C. Lent, Surviving in a Different Body

14. Freedom and Determinism: The Metaphysics of Human Agency

READING: Peter van Inwagen, The Moral Argument for Freedom

Recent Developments in Metaphysics.

IV. HOW DO WE KNOW? (EPISTEMOLOGY).

15. Introduction to Epistemology.

16. The Quest for Certainty.

READING: René Descartes, Meditations

17. Trust Your Senses.

READING: David Hume, Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding.

18. A Compromise.

READING: Immanuel Kant, Two Sources of Knowledge.

19. Knowledge and Human Practices: The Pragmatist Tradition

READINGS: William James: What Pragmatism Means

Nathaniel Goldberg: Where Does Knowledge Come From? Quine, Davidson, and Traditional Epistemology

Recent Developments in Epistemology

V. WHAT OUGHT WE TO DO? (ETHICS).

20. Introduction to Ethical Reasoning.

21. The Morality of Self-Realization.

READING: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.

22. Morality Depends on the Consequences.

READING: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism.

23. Morality Depends on Motives.

READING: Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals.

Recent Developments in Ethics.

VI. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION.

24. Introduction to Philosophy and Religion.

25. Religion and Life's Meaning.

READING: Leo Tolstoy, A Confession.

26. Arguments for God's Existence: A Priori Arguments for God’s Existence.

READING: St. Anselm, Proslogion.

27. Arguments for God's Existence: A Posteriori Arguments for God’s Existence.

READINGS: St. Thomas Aquinas, The Five Ways.

William Paley, Natural Theology.

28. The Problem of Evil.

READING: James Petrik, Inscrutable Evil and an Infinite God.

Recent Developments in Philosophy of Religion.

VII. PHILOSOPHY OF ART (ESTHETICS).

29. Introduction to Philosophy of Art.

30. The Value of Art.

READING: H. Gene Blocker, The Esthetic Attitude.

31. Art as Ideal.

READING: Kenneth Clark, The Naked and the Nude.

32. Esthetics and Ideology.

READING: Jennifer Jeffers, The Politics of Representation: The Role of the Gaze in Pornography.

Recent Developments in Esthetics.

VIII. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

33. Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy.

34. The Liberal, Secular State.

READING: John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration.

35. The Individual and the State.

READING: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty.

36. Human Rights

READING: H. Gene Blocker, Human Rights

37. Individual Happiness and Social Responsibility.

READING: M. Andrew Holowchak, Happiness and Justice in “Liberal” Society: Autonomy as Political Integration.

Recent Developments in Social and Political Philosophy.

IX. EASTERN THOUGHT.

38. Philosophy East and West.

39. Confucian Theories of Human Nature.

READINGS: Mencius, The Book of Mencius;

Xun Zi, The Nature of Man is Evil;

Dong Zhongshu, Man's Nature is Neither

Good Nor Evil.

40. Hindu Theories of Monism and Pluralism.

READING: Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhva commentary on The Vedanta Sutras.

41. Buddhist Theory of Emptiness.

READING: Nagarjuna, Seventy Verses on Emptiness

Recent Developments in Eastern Thought.

Glossary of Terms.

Index.

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J. David Stewart, retired Professor of Philosophy and Provost at Ohio University. Author/co-author of Exploring Phenomenology, Political and Social Essays of Paul Ricoeur, Exploring the Philosophy of Religion.

H. Gene Blocker, retired Professor of Philosophy at Ohio University, specializing in philosophy of art, ethics, and non-Western thought. Author/co-author of Philosophy of Art, Japanese Philosophy, Ethics, and others.

James M. Petrik, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ohio University. Author of Descartes’ Theory of the Will and Evil Beyond Belief.

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