Philosophy : a very short introduction / Edward Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, Edward, 1942- author.

Series:

Very short introductions.

Very short introductions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Edition:

2nd edition.

Place of Publication:

[Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? Edward Craig discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. He explores important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, alongside a new chapter for this edition on free will, discussing determinism and indeterminism in the context of Descartes and Hegel's work.

Contents:

1. Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

2. What Should I Know? Plato's Crito

3. How Do We Know? Hume's, Of Miracles

4. What Am I? An unknown Buddhist on the Self: King Milinda's Chariot

5. Some Themes

6. Of 'isms'

7. Some More High Spots: A Personal Selection

8. Freedom of the Will

9. What's In It for Whoom

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 7, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-260625-5

0-19-260624-7

0-19-189433-8