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Synopsis
The new edition of this introductory text presents, in anaccessible way, classical and contemporary readings on topicscentral to and representative of all major periods of the Westernphilosophical tradition. The book presents 55 readings (23 of whichare new to the fourth edition) on seven epistemology,philosophy of religion, metaphysics, personal identity andimmortality, free will and determinism, ethics, and political andsocial philosophy. Pedagogical features make these readingsaccessible and interesting to beginning students. All theintroductions and biographical sketches have been revised for thefourth edition, as have the study questions and glossary. Theexplanatory footnotes and the stylistic modernization of texts arenew to the fourth edition.
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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). Donald C. Abel is Professor of Philosophy at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Gonzaga University, an M.A. in Philosophy from Tulane University, a Ph.L. in Philosophy from St. Michael's Institute, an M.Div. in Theology from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University. He is the author of Freud on Instinct and Morality (1989), Theories of Human Nature: Classical and Contemporary Readings (McGraw-Hill, 1992), and Fifty Readings in Philosophy (McGraw-Hill, 1994). Professor Abel also edits Discourses, the philosophy section of Primis, McGraw-Hill's electronic database for publishing customized textbooks. He has received two awards for excellence in teaching, and an award for outstanding scholarship. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
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