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This text examines core philosophical questions, taking an historical approach, but does so within a problems/issues framework. Built around a collection of primary source readings, the author integrates introductions to each problem and discussion, aiming to help students understand and think about the readings. This third edition includes works by 20th-century thinkers, such as Richard Rorty, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone deBeauvoir, and Joyce Tribilcot; coverage of Eastern philosopy, notably the philosophy of Radhakrishnan; and readings by feminist philosophers, such as Carol Gilligan and Annette Baier. The text provides information on each philosopher's biographical background.
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Samuel Enoch Stumpf was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Emeritus Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University prior to his death in 1998, at the age of eighty. He earned a B.S. in Business and Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles, a B.D. in Theology from Andover Newton Theological School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1948 and served as Chair of the Philosophy Department from 1952 to 1967. After a five-year term as President of Cornell College, Professor Stumpf returned to Vanderbilt, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. Professor Stumpf’s publications include Democratic Manifesto (1954), Morality and the Law (1966), and four McGraw-Hill textbooks: Socrates to Sartre: A History of Philosophy (1966; 6th ed., posthumous, 1999); Philosophical Readings: Selected Problems (1971; 4th ed., 1994); Philosophy: History and Problems (1971; 5th ed., 1994); and Elements of Philosophy: An Introduction (1979; 3rd ed., 1993).
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