Elements of Philosophy An Introduction
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 topics: 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.