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This book differs from other introductory philosophy readers in offering substantial selections from just seven philosophers—Plato, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, George Berkeley, David Hume, Charles Sanders Peirce, and W.V. Quine—in chronological order. The extensive commentary, interspersed throughout the selections, in addition to helping students over the difficult parts, relates each philosopher to elements of their social and scientific milieu—Plato to geometry, Descartes to planetary astronomy, Hobbes to the English civil war, Berkeley and Hume to Newton, Peirce to Darwin. The objective is to show philosophers organizing their philosophical, social and scientific beliefs into a coherent picture of the world and man's place in it.

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Howard Darmstadter is a retired lawyer and philosophy professor with numerous publications in law, philosophy, and public policy. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, USA (BA with honors), Princeton University, USA (PhD in Philosophy), and Harvard Law School, USA (JD cum laude). He has taught philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, New York University, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Barnard College, all in the USA. His principal publications in philosophy are Consistency of Belief, Can Beliefs Correspond to Reality?, Relativism and Progress, David Hume at 300, Why Do Humans Reason? A Pragmatic Supplement to an Argumentative Theory, and Relativism Defended.

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