Introduction to Philosophy

The revised and expanded second edition of this wide-ranging anthology includes sixteen additional readings from John Stuart Mill, David Hume, J. J. C. Smart, A. J. Ayer, Sandra Harding, Daniel Dennett, Paul Churchland, A. M. Turing, Susan Moller Okin, Hilary Putnam and others. A new glossary of philosophical terms has been added. The readings are grouped into six categories: philosophy and the meaning of life; reason and religion; knowledge and reality; mind and body; ethics; and puzzles and paradoxes.