Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options

by Stanley M. Honer, Thomas C. Hunt, Dennis Okholm

Using an issues-and-options approach, in a handbook format, this text deals with each major topic in philosophy by using a succinct, relevant, and readable presentation and critique of the representative options (e.g., schools of thought, individual philosophers) within each topic. A continuum helps students see the options available to answer a variety of basic questions and the relationship each option has to the others. The options found on the continuum are discussed and followed by a case study drawn from contemporary life that helps students to apply the options.

Genres: Philosophy

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[Paul Ewing · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent topical overview of the discipline! In the late 1980's Jackson Community College (Jackson, Michigan) required this book as one of two texts for their introductory philosophy course. The earlier edition of "Invitation" made effective use of a continuum diagram in the form of an arch to show the "range of possibilities between logical extremes" in chapters on metaphysics, epistemology, perception and others. The continuum proved to be an excellent heuristic device. Freshman and sophomore level college students grasped things more quickly because of it.

[Roux Stellarsphyr · Rating 4 out of 5]

In an introduction to philosophy course you generally have two ways to go about learning: 1)Move through philosophy historically or 2)Move through philosophy topically. This book provides the second option, which I think is superior as the student reader will learn the issues of philosophy without getting bogged down in the history of philosophy.

Invitation provides the intro student with pretty fantastic definitions while, as fully as a intro text can, filling out the spectrum on many of the major issues philosophy addresses. A great intro text...a must read.

[Jenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

An advanced book of philosophy...... very brief, and exacting. It helps you demonstrate/understand the foundation of philosophy which broadly defined for enlighthning our view to the world.

It analyzes and Identify our basic premise that we depend on to make sense of our lives. It says......that philosophical thinking were separate from our ordinary thinking, because the former attempts to be conceptual and abstract.

[Jonathan]

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[Dr. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great introduction

[Licia]

the study of fundamental problems about concerning matters such as values, language, knowledge and mind.