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100 1 $aAppiah, Anthony.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84222140
245 10 $aThinking it through :$ban introduction to contemporary philosophy /$cKwame Anthony Appiah.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2003.
263 $a0304
300 $axviii, 412 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: A Few Preliminaries -- $gCh. 1.$tMind -- $gCh. 2.$tKnowledge -- $gCh. 3.$tLanguage -- $gCh. 4.$tScience -- $gCh. 5.$tMorality -- $gCh. 6.$tPolitics -- $gCh. 7.$tLaw -- $gCh. 8.$tMetaphysics -- $gCh. 9.$tPhilosophy.
520 1 $a"In Thinking It Through, esteemed philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah shows us what it means to "do" philosophy in our time and why it should matter to anyone who wishes to live a more thoughtful life. Opposing the common misconceptions that being a philosopher means espousing a set of philosophical beliefs or being a follower of a particular thinker.
520 8 $aAppiah argues that "the result of philosophical exploration is not the end of inquiry in a settled opinion, but a mind resting more comfortably among many possibilities, or else the reframing of the question, and a new inquiry." Thinking It Through is organized around eight central topics - mind knowledge, language, science, morality, politics, law, and metaphysics. It traces how philosophers in the past have considered each subject (how Hobbes, Wittgenstein, and Frege, for example, approached the problem of language) and then explores some of the major questions that still engage philosophers today.
520 8 $aMore important, Appiah shows us not only what philosophers have thought but how they think, giving us examples we might use in our own attempts to navigate the complex issues that confront any reflective person in the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPhilosophy$vIntroductions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100851
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