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Twenty Problems in Philosophy
A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy
Edited by Thomas Ming
ISBN 9780071252881 • MHID 0071252886 • 2007 • Softcover • 216pp
Philosophy is a popular and difficult subject. Undergraduates taking
philosophy courses are often at a loss as to how to appreciate the strange
problems they are taught. They either do not see there is a problem or
feel that the problem is utterly trivial. The laymen are also captivated by
the title “philosophy”; but once philosophical problems are systematically
presented to them, they find the technicalities involved obscure, pretentious
and unnecessary.
Twenty Problems in Philosophy is written to introduce reasonably
motivated laymen and university students taking philosophy courses to the
core problems of philosophy. These problems are presented in the way they
are taught in a university, and yet the materials are packaged in a concise
and accessible style. The coverage of this book is so broad that ten subdisciplines
of the philosophy curriculum are broached. This book is thus a
complete mini-guide to contemporary Western philosophy that is taught in
a tertiary institution.