Series: Reading Philosophy

This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary, helping readers engage with the texts critically and use them to develop their own views. Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context. Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, encouraging them to...

A key introductory philosophy textbook, making use of an innovative, interactive technique for reading philosophical texts. Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners, Second Edition, provides a unique approach to reading philosophy, requiring students to engage with material as they read. It contains carefully selected texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about...

Reading Philosophy of Religion combines a diverse selection of classical and contemporary texts in philosophy of religion with insightful commentaries. Offers a unique presentation through a combination of text and interactive commentary. Provides a mix of classic and contemporary texts, including some not anthologised elsewhere. Includes writings from thinkers such as Aquinas, Boethius, Hume, Plantinga, and Putnam. Divided into sections...