Philosophic Classics, Volume V: 20th Century Philosophy

by Baird, Forrest E.

• ISBN13: 9780130215345
• ISBN10: 0130215341
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

For courses in 20th-century Philosophy, or as part of courses on Contemporary Philosophy, or courses on Epistemology or Metaphysics that take a historical approach, or courses on recent Continental Philosophy or Anglo-American Philosophy. Designed to be accessible to today's students, this anthology of readings in twentieth-century philosophical classics includes recent European and American philosophers and texts that are presently seen as classics or as emerging classics. It features the best available translations of textscomplete works or complete selections of workswhich are both central to each philosopher's thought and are widely accepted as part of the canon. The selections are readable and accessible, while still being faithful to the original. Introductions to each philosopher, an abundance of drawings, diagrams, photographs, and a timeline keep students focused throughout.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Map of Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Phenomenology (from Encyclopaedia Brittanica)

The Crisis of European Science and Transcendental Phenomenology (Part III, A, 33 and 34)

The Quest for Certainty (Chapter 10)

Alfred North Whitehead

Process and Reality (Selections)

The Souls of Black Folks (Chapter 1)

The Problems of Philosophy (Chapters 1, 5, and 15)

Mysticism and Logic

The Refutation of Idealism

An Introduction to Metaphysics (Chapter 1)

Building Dwelling Thinking

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Preface, 1-3.1431, 6.4-7)

Philosophical Investigations (I 1-47, 65-71,241, 257-258, 305, and 309)

Language, Truth and Logic (Chapter 1)

Truth and Method (Selections from Part II)

Being and Nothingness (Chapter 2)

Existentialism Is a Humanism

The Second Sex (Introduction)

Two Dogmas of Empiricism

Phenomenology of Perception (Preface)

How to Do Things with Words (Lectures 1 and 2)

The Method of Truth in Metaphysics

What Is an Author?

Truth and Power

Signature, Event, Context

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Selections from Chapter 4)

The Conversation Continues: Emerging Classics Since 1980

The Sex Which is Not One (Selections)

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Lecture XI, Parts II and III)

The Many Faces of Realism (Lecture I)

Overcoming Epistemology

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