The book will be a delight to teach.Percy Barnevik, president and CEO of ABB Asea Brown Boveri, is a corporate pioneer. It superimposes upon thematic and doctrinal diversity a deeply insightful and analytical unity. The unique feature of Tennant’s book is that it traverses a vast array of key issues from an integrated and consistent conceptual and methodological point of view.
The systemic unity of thought that ought to be the hallmark of rigorous philosophy is entirely absent from such a Cook's tour transit across the landscape of thought. "Virtually without exception, present-day introductions to philosophy are anthologies, mosaics of thought combining deliberations from varied sources and points of view. Even the expert philosopher will benefit from it." Instead, it focuses on the great issues of philosophy-from the existence of God to the nature of the mind. It teaches precision in both concept-formation and argumentation but does not invest it in all-too abstract and irrelevant problems. It covers many subdisciplines of theoretical philosophy, is extremely well-argued, and is wittily written. "This is one of the best introductions to philosophy I know of.
Deduction: The Clash of Ideals A The History of Western Philosophy B Formal Results in the Theory of Probability Bibliography Index Determinism V Representation, Inference and the Elusive Infinite 26 Representation and Evaluation 27 From Evaluation to Deduction 28 Paradoxes 29 Description v. I The Nature of Philosophy 1 The Main Features of Philosophy 2 Philosophy's History and Legacy 3 The Philosophical Temperament 4 Important Concepts and Distinctions 5 Kant's Two Distinctions 6 Important Opposing `-Isms' II Philosophy and Method 7 What is Logic? 8 Inductive Reasoning 9 The Method of Conceptual Analysis 10 The Method of Conceptual Explication 11 The Method of Thought-Experiment 12 Intellectual Creativity and Rigor 13 Deduction in Mathematics and Science 14 The Methodological Issue of Reductionism III The Existence of God 15 A Priori Arguments for the Existence of God 16 The Argument From Design 17 The Argument From Contemporary Creationism 18 Pascal's Wager 19 The Problem of Evil IV Mind, Body and External World 20 The Pivotal Figure of Descartes: Dualism and Skepticism 21 Problems about Mind 22 Cartesian Dualism versus Logical Behaviorism 23 Materialism and Supervenience 24 Functionalism 25 Free will v. Provides five to ten discussion questions for each chapter, helping instructors and students better interact with the ideas and concepts in the text Offers a companion website with links to apt primary sources, organized chapter-by-chapter, making unnecessary a separate Reader/Anthology of primary sources – thus providing students with all reading material necessary for the course Is much more methodologically comprehensive than competing introductions, giving the student the ability to address a wide range of philosophical problems – and not just the ones reviewed in the book They are essential for further work in philosophy but they are also very beneficial for students pursuing most other disciplines a posteriori) providing skills that are important for undergraduates to develop in order to inform their study at higher levels.
Introduces students to various important philosophical distinctions (e.g. Author comes from a distinguished background in Logic and Philosophy of Language, which gives the book a level of rigor, balance, and analytic focus sometimes missing from primers to philosophy Investigates the philosophy of various subjects (psychology, language, biology, math), helping students contextualize philosophy and view it as an interdisciplinary pursuit also helps students with majors outside of philosophy to see the relationship between philosophy and their own focused academic pursuits It also connects philosophy to other areas of study at the university, enabling all students to employ the concepts and techniques of this millennia-old discipline throughout their college careers – and beyond. In Introducing Philosophy: God, Mind, World, and Logic, Neil Tennant helps any student in pursuit of a ‘big picture’ to think independently, question received dogma, and analyse problems incisively. Written for any readers interested in better harnessing philosophy’s real value, this book covers a broad range of fundamental philosophical problems and certain intellectual techniques for addressing those problems.
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