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• Title:Thinking it through : an introduction to contemporary philosophy / Kwame Anthony Appiah.
  
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• Author/Creator:Appiah, Anthony.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
  

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  • Call Number: BD21 .A68 2003
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Philosophy--Introductions.
  
• Description:xvii, 412 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Summary:"In Thinking It Through, esteemed philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah shows us what it means to "do" philosophy in our time and why it should matter to anyone who wishes to live a more thoughtful life. Opposing the common misconceptions that being a philosopher means espousing a set of philosophical beliefs or being a follower of a particular thinker. Appiah argues that "the result of philosophical exploration is not the end of inquiry in a settled opinion, but a mind resting more comfortably among many possibilities, or else the reframing of the question, and a new inquiry." Thinking It Through is organized around eight central topics - mind knowledge, language, science, morality, politics, law, and metaphysics. It traces how philosophers in the past have considered each subject (how Hobbes, Wittgenstein, and Frege, for example, approached the problem of language) and then explores some of the major questions that still engage philosophers today. More important, Appiah shows us not only what philosophers have thought but how they think, giving us examples we might use in our own attempts to navigate the complex issues that confront any reflective person in the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-391) and index.
  
• ISBN:0195160282 (alk. paper)
  0195134583 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction: A Few Preliminaries
  Ch. 1. Mind
  Ch. 2. Knowledge
  Ch. 3. Language
  Ch. 4. Science
  Ch. 5. Morality
  Ch. 6. Politics
  Ch. 7. Law
  Ch. 8. Metaphysics
  Ch. 9. Philosophy.