Now in a third edition, Introduction to Philosophy: Classical andContemporary Readings is a highly acclaimed, topically organized collection thatcovers five major areas of philosophy--theory of knowledge, philosophy ofreligion, philosophy of mind, freedom and determinism, and moral philosophy.Editor Louis P. Pojman enhances the text's topical organization by arranging theselections into a pro/con format to help students better understand opposingarguments. He also includes accessible introductions to each part, subsection,and individual reading, a unique feature for an anthology of this depth. Whilethe book focuses on a compelling sampling of classical material--includingselections from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant--italso incorporates some of philosophy's best twentieth-century and contemporarywork, featuring articles by Bertrand Russell, Richard Taylor, John Searle,Thomas Nagel, and others.This third edition contains an expanded glossary, more extensive sectionintroductions, and twelve new selections:Karl Popper: "Epistemology without a Knowing Subject"Richard Rorty: "Dismantling Truth: Solidarity versus Objectivity"Daniel Dennett: "Postmodernism and Truth"Bruce Russell: "The Problem of Evil: Why is There So Much Suffering?"David Chalmers: "Against Materialism: Can Consciousness Be ReductivelyExplained?"Baron Paul Henri d'Holbach: "A Defense of Determinism"Michael Levin: "A Compatibilist Defense of Moral Responsibility"Plato: "Socratic Morality: Crito"Herodotus: "Custom Is King"J. L. Mackie: "The Subjectivity of Values"Louis P. Pojman: "A Critique of Mackie's Theory of Moral Subjectivism"Thomas Nagel: "Moral Luck"