Does the Center Hold? An Introduction to Western Philosophy - Softcover

Palmer, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0078038375 ISBN 13: 9780078038372

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2013

Synopsis

Does the Center Hold? is an entertaining, topically-organized introductory text with more than 500 original illustrations. The ideas and issues typically covered in introductory philosophy courses are presented here in a remarkably accessible and enjoyable manner. Donald Palmer demonstrates that serious philosophical inquiry may be perplexing, but is ultimately liberating, and students will come away from the book with a comprehensive, and often delighted, understanding of philosophy.

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About this title

About the Author:

Donald Palmer received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Univ. of California, Berkeley and his Doctorate of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.  He has published a number of philosophy books, including Looking at Philosophy, Does the Center Hold? and Why It’s Hard to Be Good (McGraw-Hill), and, more popularly, Kierkegaard for Beginners, Sartre for Beginners, and Structuralism and Post-Structuralism for Beginners.  He has recently completed a manuscript on Don Quixote titled Philosophy and Madness in La Mancha.  He taught for many years at the College of Marin, in California, and finished his teaching career at North Carolina State University.  He and his wife divide their time among North Carolina, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Lot Valley in Southwestern France.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0078038375
• ISBN 13: 9780078038372
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 496