Introducing Philosophy God, Mind, World, and Logic [Hardcover]

Written for any readers interested in better harnessing philosophys real value, this book covers a broad range of fundamental philosophical problems and certain intellectual techniques for addressing those problems. In Introducing Philosophy: God, Mind, World, and Logic, Neil Tennant helps any student in pursuit of a big picture to think independently, question received dogma, and analyse problems incisively. It also connects philosophy to other areas of study at the university, enabling all students to employ the concepts and techniques of this millennia-old discipline throughout their college careers  and beyond.

-- Investigates the philosophy of various subjects (psychology, language, biology, math), helping students contextualize philosophy and view it as an interdisciplinary pursuit; also helps students with majors outside of philosophy to see the relationship between philosophy and their own focused academic pursuits

-- Author comes from a distinguished background in Logic and Philosophy of Language, which gives the book a level of rigor, balance, and analytic focus sometimes missing from primers to philosophy

-- Introduces students to various important philosophical distinctions (e.g. fact vs. value, descriptive vs. prescriptive, norms vs. laws of nature, analytic vs. synthetic, inductive vs. deductive, a priorivs. a posteriori) providing skills that are important for undergraduates to develop in order to inform their study at higher levels. They are essentialfor further work in philosophy but they are also very beneficialfor students pursuing most other disciplines

-- Is much more methodologically comprehensivethan competing introductions, giving the student the ability to address a wide range of philosophical problems  and not just the ones reviewed in the lS/