Informal Philosophy provides an original look at how we should understand and teach philosophy. Avrum Stroll persuasively argues that philosophy should be evaluated using its own methodology and shoul
Combining careful organization with a highly readable style, eminent scholar Avrum Stroll outlines the unconventional backdrop to Wittgenstein's great philosophical achievements: his dramatic change o
A new paperback edition of a hugely popular title whose hardback edition sold out in four months. Accomplished and prolific author and philosopher Avrum Stroll believes that although we are right to b
Analytic philosophy is difficult to define since it is not so much a specific doctrine as a loose concatenation of approaches to problems. As well as having strong ties to scientism -the notion that o
Avrum Stroll accepts the ancient tradition that one of the tasks of philosophy is to give an accurate account of the world's features, both animate and inanimate. But, he contends, because these featu
Martinich (philosophy, U. of Texas, Austin) and Stroll (philosophy, U. of California at San Diego) present existing and novel theories of fiction, discussing how that genre is distinct from history, p
Casting skepticism in a central role, this history of Western philosophy looks at the efforts of major thinkers seeking to overcome skeptical challenges. The role of skepticism in producing new theor
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