Looking at philosophy
Subtitle: the unbearable heaviness of philosophy made lighter
By: Donald Palmer.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780073407487
Subjects: Philosophy -- History; Philosophy -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons; American wit and humor, Pictorial
Genres: Caricatures and cartoons
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The pre-socratic philosophers; title: Sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E.; title: Thales; title: Anaximander; title: Anaximenes; title: Pythagoras; title: Heraclitus; title: Parmenides; title: Zeno; title: Empedocles; title: Anaxagoras; title: Leucippus and Democritus; title: The Athenian period; title: Fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.; title: The Sophists; title: Protagoras; title: Gorgias; title: Thrasymachus; title: Callicles and Critias; title: Socrates; title: Plato; title: Aristotle; title: The Hellenistic and Roman periods; title: Fourth century B.C.E. through fourth century C.E.; title: Epicureanism; title: Stoicism; title: Neoplatonism; title: Medieval and Renaissance philosophy; title: Fifth through fifteenth centuries; title: Saint Augustine; title: The encyclopediasts; title: John Scotus Eriugena; title: Saint Anselm; title: Muslim and Jewish philosophies; title: Averroës; title: Maimonides; title: The problem of faith and reason; title: The problem of the universals; title: Saint Thomas Aquinas; title: William of Ockham; title: Renaissance philosophers; title: Continental rationalism and British empiricism; title: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; title: Descartes; title: Hobbes; title: Spinoza; title: Leibniz; title: Locke; title: Berkeley; title: Hume; title: Kant; title: Post-kantian British and continental philosophy; title: The nineteenth century; title: Hegel; title: Schopenhauer; title: Kierkegaard; title: Marx; title: Nietzsche; title: Utilitarianism; title: Bentham; title: Frege; title: Pragmatism, the analytic tradition, and the phenomenological tradition and its aftermath; title: The twentieth century; title: Pragmatism; title: James; title: Dewey; title: The analytic tradition; title: Moore; title: Russell; title: Logical positivism; title: Wittgenstein; title: Quine; title: The phenomenological tradition and its aftermath; title: Husserl; title: Heidegger; title: Sartre; title: Structuralism and poststructuralism; title: Saussure; title: Lévi-Strauss; title: Lacan; title: Derrida; title: Irigaray.