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Philosophy of Education: An Anthology brings together the essential historical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of education. * The readings have been selected for their philosophical merit, their focus on important aspects of educational practice and their readability.

The revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit's highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology, bringing together the field's most important readings in a single volumeUnparalleled in the breadth and scope of its coverage, this newly-revised third edition traces the evolution of political philosophy as a contemporary practice, and raises important questions about the impact of current political events.* Fully updated to include 49 contemporary and classic selections from the most distinguished scholars in political philosophy* Offers expanded coverage of international affairs and political oppression* Includes essays which represent a diversity of political and ideological positions, and features interdisciplinary voices in politics, law, and economics* Edited by two of the field's most highly-respected scholars* The ideal collection of primary readings to accompany the Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2012) for coursework in political philosophy

For over fifty years, philosophers working within the broader remit of analytic philosophy have developed and refined a substantial body of work in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, curating a core foundation of scholarship which offers rigor and clarity on matters of profound and perennial interest relating to art and all forms of aesthetic appreciation. Now in its second edition and thoroughly revised, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art--The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology captures this legacy in a comprehensive introduction to the core philosophical questions and conversations in aesthetics.Through 57 key essays selected by leading scholars Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen, this anthology collects modern classics as well as new contributions on essential topics such as the identification and ontology of art, interpretation, values of art, art and knowledge, and fiction and the imagination. New to this edition are selections which treat aesthetic experience more widely, including essays on the aesthetics of nature and aesthetics in everyday life. Other carefully-chosen pieces analyze the practice and experience of specific art forms in greater detail, including painting, photography, film, literature, music, and popular art such as comics.This bestselling collection is an essential resource for students and scholars of aesthetics, designed to foster a foundational understanding of both long-standing and contemporary topics in the field.

This volume provides a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of logic.

Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today.

New and thoroughly updated, Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge.

Featuring updates and the inclusion of nine new chapters, Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology, 2nd Edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative collection of the most influential readings in analytic philosophy written over the past hundred years.

Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects.

* Portrays American Philosophy as complex and constantly changing. * Features readings from several different traditions of American Philosophy. * Provides a sense of the history and context of sophisticated, ongoing philosophical arguments.

Explores the central problems and the most intriguing new directions in the philosophy of mathematics. The papers are organized thematically, rather than chronologically, to give the best overview of philosophical issues connected with mathematics and the development of mathematical knowledge.

Addresses seven philosophically significant questions regarding feminism, its central concepts of sex and gender, and the project of centering women's experience. This title features an introductory overview illustrating the development of feminism as a philosophical movement. It contains both classic and contemporary sources of feminist thought.

A collection of classic and contemporary readings in Continental aesthetics. Spanning Romanticism through modernism to post-modernism, it includes landmark texts that have sparked renewed interest in aesthetics, including work from Schiller, Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel and Heidegger.

This anthology is comprised of a collection of classical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of religion, providing a survey and analysis of the key issues, figures and concepts.

Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology.

Designed for classroom use, this authoritative anthology presents key selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy of film. .

This work offers a selection of seminal papers on the foundations of cognitive science, from leading figures in artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy and cognitive psychology.

This volume features a broad range of selections from important but seldom anthologized works in the philosophy of psychology, natural science, morality, politics and religion.

Featuring the best of traditional and contemporary approaches to environmental philosophy, "Environmental Ethics: An Anthology" brings together seminal writings on the central questions in environmental ethics.

Philosophy of Science: An Anthology assembles some of the finest papers in the philosophy of science since 1945, showcasing enduring classics alongside important and innovative recent work.