Elements of Philosophy: An Introduction - Hardcover

Stumpf, Samuel Enoch

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070624682 ISBN 13: 9780070624689

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1993

Synopsis

This introductory philosophy text takes a historical approach to important philosophical problems and includes primary source readings. This third edition includes the addition of more 20th-century thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone deBeauvoir and Joyce Tribilcot, among others. The Eastern philosophy of Radhakrishnan is included and Carol Gilligan and Annette Baier contribute their feminist voices to the study of philosophy.

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About the Author

Samuel Enoch Stumpf was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Emeritus Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University prior to his death in 1998, at the age of eighty. He earned a B.S. in Business and Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles, a B.D. in Theology from Andover Newton Theological School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1948 and served as Chair of the Philosophy Department from 1952 to 1967. After a five-year term as President of Cornell College, Professor Stumpf returned to Vanderbilt, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. Professor Stumpf’s publications include Democratic Manifesto (1954), Morality and the Law (1966), and four McGraw-Hill textbooks: Socrates to Sartre: A History of Philosophy (1966; 6th ed., posthumous, 1999); Philosophical Readings: Selected Problems (1971; 4th ed., 1994); Philosophy: History and Problems (1971; 5th ed., 1994); and Elements of Philosophy: An Introduction (1979; 3rd ed., 1993).

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070624682
• ISBN 13: 9780070624689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 624