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Philosophy: A Beginners Guide, 3rd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-631-21321-5

November 1999

Wiley-Blackwell

288 pages

Description
Philosophy: a Beginner's Guide is unique in its approach to introducing philosophy. Its succinct and self-contained chapters make this jargon-free text accessible to people who have had little or no previous contact with philosophy.
About the Author
Jenny Teichman is a Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge. She is the author of The Mind and the Soul (1974), Illegitimacy (1982), Pacifism and the Just War (1986), Philosophy and the Mind (1988), and Social Ethics: A Student's Guide (Blackwell, 1996).

Katherine Evans, a graduate of Cambridge, is an attorney for an international telecommunications company and writes logical aptitude tests for law students.

Features
* Includes new chapter on Scepticism.
* Assumes no previous contact with philosophy.
* Distinguished by its range and accessibility.
* Guides the reader through the most central and important questions of philosophy.