LSC-Tomball: Library Research Guides: Philosophy: eBooks

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Introducting Philosophy by Neil Tennant
Call Number: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
ISBN: 9780415537117
Publication Date: 2015-02-16
Written for any readers interested in better harnessing philosophy's real value, this book covers a broad range of fundamental philosophical problems and certain intellectual techniques for addressing those problems. In Introducing Philosophy: God, Mind, World, and Logic, Neil Tennant helps any student in pursuit of a ‘big picture'to think independently, question received dogma, and analyse problems incisively. It also connects philosophy to other areas of study at the university, enabling all students to employ the concepts and techniques of this millennia-old discipline throughout their college careers – and beyond...
Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language by Margaret Cameron (Editor); Benjamin Hill (Editor); Henrik Lagerlund (Editor); Robert J. Stainton (Editor)
Call Number: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
ISBN: 9783319269061
Publication Date: 2016-09-19
For the first time in English, this anthology offers a comprehensive selection of primary sources in the history of philosophy of language. Beginning with a detailed introduction contextualizing the subject, the editors draw out recurring themes, including the origin of language, the role of nature and convention in fixing form and meaning, language acquisition, ideal languages, varieties of meanings, language as a tool, and the nexus of language and thought, linking them to representative texts. The handbook moves on to offer seminal contributions from philosophers ranging from the pre-Socratics up to John Stuart Mill,...
Plato As Author by A. N Michelini
Call Number: Ebook Central
ISBN: 9789047401834
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
This collection, focusing on literary aspects of the Platonic dialogues, includes diverse essays by scholars from several different fields. Topics include friendship and desire in the Lysis, Socratic irony in Cratylus, and mystery imagery in Phaedrus.
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Trial of Socrates by Thomas C. Brickhouse; Nicholas D. Smith
Call Number: Ebook Central (ProQuest)
ISBN: 9780203645963
Publication Date: 2004-07-31
Socrates is one of the most influential philosophers in western civilisation, and Plato his most famous pupil. The Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito and the death scene from the Phaedo are Plato's account of Socrates' trial and execution, and together they provide the most important depiction of Socrates' ideas. In this GuideBook, Brickhouse and Smith provide clear explanations of these texts for students coming to them for the first time..
Philosophy of Mind A-Z by Marina Rakova
Call Number: Ebook Central (ProQuest)
ISBN: 9780748627233
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
A comprehensive guide to the main positions, debates, key figures and problems as well as important terms in the philosophy of mind. Philosophy of Mind A-Z contains entries on historical and contemporary key figures, explaining the importance of the longstanding debates and how the contemporary field has been shaped. It covers both traditional and current topics, and even those topics that are only beginning to emerge. It includes a wide range of philosophy of mind, from Plato and Leibniz to externalism and the frame problem, from Husserl to neural Darwinism, from mental causation to the problem of consciousness.
Philosophy and the Global Context by Ram Adhar Mall
Call Number: Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781461637820
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
he meeting of different cultures, philosophies and religions today calls for an intensive and qualified discourse on the part of all concerned. Intercultural Philosophy seeks to develop such a discourse through a new orientation of thought that will allow for a discussion of all philosophical problems from an intercultural perspective. In this important new work, Ram Adhar Mall approaches the study of philosophy from a cross-cultural point of view allowing for fundamental similarities and illuminating differences between cultures. In doing so, he develops a new concept of intercultural philosophy and applies it to various philosophical disciplines.