Introducing Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality

About this book

This book introduces the central issues of metaphysics and epistemology from skepticism justification and perception to universals personal identity and free will. Though topically organized the book integrates positions and examples from the history of philosophy. Plato Descartes and Leibniz are discussed alongside Quine Kripke and Haslanger. Peripheral ideas and related historical asides are offered in boxes interspersed within the text providing further depth without disrupting the authors lucid explanations of central themes and arguments. Original illustrations by Gillian Wilson are included throughout giving interesting and clear visual representations of many of the books examples and thought experiments.