PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy

The Concise Encyclopedia offers a lively, comprehensive and authoritative treatment of Western philosophy.

This reference addresses key concepts, doctrines, schools of thought, individual thinkers and philosophical terms as applied to a range of topics.

Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide of philosophical terms. Definitions are brief, clear, and user-friendly. Includes brief entries on the best-known philosophers.

Comprehensive, up-to-date survey of ideas and thinkers written by an international team of contributors. Includes entries on major philosophers,

Consists of ten volumes of eminent philosophers writing for the needs of students and teachers of philosophy internationally.

Explores how philosophy has shaped our language, science, mathematics, religion, culture, morality, education, and politics, as well as our understanding of ourselves.

The lives and ideas of this extraordinary philosophical quartet converge.

Traces the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle--an influential group of brilliant thinkers led by Schlick--and of a philosophical movement that sought to do away with metaphysics and pseudoscience in a city darkened by fascism, anti-Semitism, and unreason.

Provides a groundbreaking account of the origins of the term philosophos or "philosopher" in ancient Greece. Tracing the evolution of the word's meaning over its first two centuries, Moore shows how it first referred to aspiring political sages and advice-givers, then to avid conversationalists about virtue, and finally to investigators who focused on the scope and conditions of those conversations.

Provides an engaging tour through the basic principles of logic, argument, evidence, and probability that can make us more reasonable and responsible citizens.