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Based on the author's nearly 30 years' of teaching introductory philosophy â and his observations of where beginning readers run into difficulty â this compact â primerâ gives readers the basic tools they need to explore philosophical reading and writing for the first time. Provides insights and strategies for helping readers get started with reading, thinking about, and discussing philosophical concepts and writing short philosophical essays about what they've been reading and thinking; includes a new chapter that illustrates techniques for probing beneath the expository surface of a given question to uncover the inevitable structure of presuppositions and problems underlying it.
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Based on the author's nearly 30 years' of teaching introductory philosophy -- and his observations of where beginning students run into difficulty -- this compact "primer" gives students the basic tools they need to explore philosophical reading and writing for the first time.
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- PublisherPrentice Hall College Div
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0136874673
- ISBN 13 9780136874676
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages117
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