Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings

Introduction to Classical and Contemporary Readings , Third Edition, is a highly acclaimed, topically organized collection that covers five major areas of philosophy–theory of knowledge, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, freedom and determinism, and moral philosophy.
Editor Louis P. Pojman enhances the text’s topical organization by arranging the selections into a pro/con format to help students better understand opposing arguments. He also includes accessible introductions to each part, subsection, and individual reading, a unique feature for an anthology of
this depth. While the book focuses on a compelling sampling of classical material–including selections from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant–it also incorporates some of philosophy’s best twentieth-century and contemporary work, featuring articles by Bertrand Russell,
Richard Taylor, John Searle, Thomas Nagel, and others.

This third edition contains an expanded glossary, more extensive section introductions, and twelve new
Karl “Epistemology without a Knowing Subject”
Richard “Dismantling Solidarity versus Objectivity”
Daniel “Postmodernism and Truth”
Bruce “The Problem of Why is There So Much Suffering?”
David “Against Can Consciousness Be Reductively Explained?”
Baron Paul Henri d’ “A Defense of Determinism”
Michael “A Compatibilist Defense of Moral Responsibility”
“Socratic Crito”
“Custom Is King”
J. L. “The Subjectivity of Values”
Louis P. “A Critique of Mackie’s Theory of Moral Subjectivism”
Thomas “Moral Luck”