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Product details
- ISBN 9781405162715
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 170 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 08 May 2009
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Comprising 20 free-standing chapters written by specialists in their respective fields, Central Issues of Philosophy provides novice readers with the ideal accessible introduction to all of philosophy's core issues.
- An accessible introduction to the central issues of philosophy
- Organized around key philosophical issues - ranging from truth, knowledge and reality to free will, ethics and the existence of God
- Provides beginning students with the information and skills to delve deeper into philosophical fields of study
- Each chapter is written by an experienced teacher
John Shand is Associate Lecturer in Philosophy at The Open University. He is the author of Philosophy and Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy (1993, 1994, 2002) and Arguing Well (2000). He has also edited six books, including Fundamentals of Philosophy (2002) and the five-volume Central Works of Philosophy (2003–6).
