The Philosophy Major's Introduction to Philosophy: Concepts and Distinctions

ISBN-13: 9780367482985 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 190 str.

Ken Akiba

Opis

This book　serves as a necessary bridge to upper-level study in philosophy by offering rigorous but concise and accessible accounts of basic concepts and distinctions that are used throughout the discipline.A valuable advanced introduction to any undergraduate who is moving into upper-level courses in philosophy.

Spis treści

1. Particulars and Universals; Logic and Language  2. Extension and Intension  3. Analyticity, Apriority, and Necessity  4. Content, Linguistic and Mental  5. Internalism and Externalism

O autorze

Ken Akiba is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA. Akiba specializes in philosophical logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of language and is co-editor (with Ali Abasnezhad) of the anthology Vague Objects and Vague Identity: New Essays on Ontic Vagueness (2014).