Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements

by Clark N. Glymour

Book Overview

"Thinking Things Through "provides a broad, historical, and rigorous introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and to its contemporary significance. The presentation is centered around three of the most fruitful issues in Western thought: What are proofs, and why do they provide knowledge? How can experience be used to gain knowledge or to alter beliefs in a rational way? What is the nature of mind and of mental events and mental states?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262571196
• ISBN13: 9780262571197
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction to the history of reasoning...

Glymour sets out to provide a one-volume reference to the history of attempts at formal reasoning, starting with the preSocratics and ending with recent topics in Cognitive Science. The book is thoroughly readable, covers all of the bases, and has superb (and very challenging) study questions assigned to each subsection of the text. The reference lists are good, and the illustrations are simple and make their point well. A good, but very challenging, book.