Doing philosophy inspires active learning and helps students become more accomplished critical thinkers by encouraging them to reflect on philosophical theories and the thought experiments used to test them. The book traces the historical development of philosophical thinking on a number of central problems and shows how the solutions offered to these problems inform current t...(展开全部)

This text helps students understand the nature and purpose of philosophical inquiry by explaining what philosophical problems are, how they can be solved, and why searching for solutions is important. By acquainting students with philosophical theories and the thought experiments used to test them, the text fosters active learning and helps students become better thinkers.

Thinking it Through is a thorough, vividly written introduction to contemporary philosophy and some of the most crucial questions of human existence, including the nature of mind and knowledge, the status of moral claims, the existence of God, the role of science, and the mysteries of language. Noted philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah shows us what it means to "do" philosophy in ...(展开全部)

What If...Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy is a brief, inexpensive collection of over 100 classic and contemporary "thought experiments", each with an accompanying commentary, that explore philosophical arguments and often address a genuine problem in life. The value of the book is in its simplicity in both format and tone: Each thought experiment is accompanied by c...(展开全部)

This edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the new debates on political liberalism, deliberative democracy, civic republicanism, nationalism and cultural pluralism. The book...(展开全部)

唐·伊德（Don Irde）美国纽约州立大学石溪分校哲学教授。主要著作有：《实验现象学》（ExperimentaPhenomen070gy，1977）、《技术与实践》（Technics and Praxis， 1979）、《技术与生活世界》（Technology and the Lifewor7d，1990）、《工具实在论》（InstrumentalRealism，1991）、《后现象学》（Post-phenomenlogy，.1993）、《技术中的身体》（80dies in Technology， 2002）、《具身的技术》（Lmbodied Technics，2010）等，主编“印第安纳技术哲学丛书”（The Indiana Senesin the Philosophy of Technology）等。

Developments in the philosophy of mind over the last 20 years have dramatically changed the nature of the subject. In this major new introduction, Tim Bayne presents an outstanding overview of many of the key topics, problems, and debates, taking account not only of changes in philosophy of mind itself but also of important developments in the scientific study of the mind. The ...(展开全部)

This is a textbook for an introductory combinatorics course that can take up one or two semesters. An extensive list of problems, ranging from routine exercises to research questions, is included. In each section, there are also exercises that contain material not explicitly discussed in the preceding text, so as to provide instructors with extra choices if they want to shift t...(展开全部)