{"product_id":"introducing-philosophy-through-film-isbn-9781405171021","title":"Introducing Philosophy Through Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eIntroducing Philosophy through Film\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Introducing Philosophy Through Film\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly wonderful introduction to the core problems of philosophy. Its combination of great films, classic articles from both historical and contemporary philosophers, wonderfully clear introductions to each section, and provocative questions for discussion make for an introduction that is as compelling as it is rigorous.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRichard Foley, \u003c\/b\u003eNew York University  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fumerton and Jeske have compiled an excellent anthology, filled with dozens of classic texts on the central problems of philosophy most often addressed in introductory philosophy courses. And the films they suggest will help introduce students to philosophy in the most enjoyable way possible.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael Huemer,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Colorado \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eMonty Python and The Matrix to Casablanca\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange,\u003c\/i\u003e popular films offer surprisingly perceptive insights into complex philosophical concepts.\u003ci\u003e Introducing Philosophy Through Film\u003c\/i\u003e combines this novel pedagogical approach with all the virtues of a serious introductory anthology of classical and contemporary philosophical readings. The result is an engaging and effective way to fire the imagination of those new to philosophy. Drawing on a wide range of popular and easily accessible films — along with the ideas of a diverse selection of historical and contemporary thinkers — this book introduces many of the central areas of philosophical concern, including perception, philosophy of mind, ethics, religion, free will, determinism, and more. Chapter by chapter, the editors offer a discussion of relevant film clips to help illuminate and demystify the philosophical arguments and positions raised in the anthology’s readings.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy merging the cinematic and philosophical worlds,\u003ci\u003e Introducing Philosophy Through Film\u003c\/i\u003e provides a uniquely effective way for beginning students to engage with philosophy and gain insights into the human mind.  Preface  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSource Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Introduction: Philosophical Analysis, Argument, and the Relevance of Thought Experiments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilms: Monty Python, \"The Argument Skit\"; Pulp Fiction; Seinfeld episode: The Soup\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Problem of Perception\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilms: Total Recall; The Matrix; Star Trek TV episode: The Menagerie\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. First Meditation and excerpt from Sixth Meditation: René Descartes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Some Further Considerations Concerning Our Simple Ideas of Sensation: John Locke\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous: George Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy: David Hume\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Self and the Common World: A. J. Ayer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Brains in a Vat: Hilary Putnam\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Structure of Skeptical Arguments and its Metaepistemological Implications: Richard Fumerton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Experience Machine: Robert Nozick\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Philosophy of Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilms: What Dreams May Come; Bicentennial Man; Heaven Can Wait; The Sixth Day; The Prestige; Multiplicity; Star Trek TV episode: Turn About Intruder\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Second Meditation: René Descartes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Descartes’ Myth: Gilbert Ryle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Sensations and Brain Processes: J. J. C. Smart\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?: Thomas Nagel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. What Mary Didn’t Know: Frank Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Minds, Brains, and Programs: John R. Searle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Mad Pain and Martian Pain: David Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Eliminative Materialism: Paul Churchland\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Of Identity and Diversity: John Locke\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. The Self and the Future: Bernard Williams\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. From Reasons and Persons: Derek Parfit\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality: John Perry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. On the Immortality of the Soul: David Hume\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: EthicsA. Act Consequentialism and its Critics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilms: Abandon Ship!; Fail Safe; Dirty Harry; Sophie’s Choice; Saving Private Ryan; Judgment at Nuremberg; Minority Report: 24 (Season 3: 6.00–7.00 a.m.); Titanic; Vertical Limit\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: Immanuel Kant\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. What Makes Right Acts Right?: W. D. Ross\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. A Critique of Utilitarianism: Bernard Williams\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. An Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics: J. J. C. Smart\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Intending Harm: Shelly Kagan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. United States v. Holmes (1842)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. The Queen v Dudley and Stephens\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. War and Massacre: Thomas Nagel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB. Obligations to Intimates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilms: The English Patient; Casablanca; The Third Man; The Music Box; High Noon; Nick of Time; 24 (Season 1: 7.00–8.00 a.m.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. From Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Self and Others: C. D. Broad\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Filial Morality: Christina Hoff Sommers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality: Peter Railton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Relatives and Relativism: Diane Jeske and Richard Fumerton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. Families, Friends, and Special Obligations: Diane Jeske\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. An Ethic of Caring: Nel Noddings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Philosophy of Time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilms: Somewhere in Time; Back to the Future; Planet of the Apes; Frequency; A Sound of Thunder\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. Making Things to Have Happened: Roderick M. Chisholm and Richard Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. Space and Time: Richard Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. The Paradoxes of Time Travel: David Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Determinism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilms: Minority Report: The Boys From Brazil: A Clockwork Orange: The Omen: Compulsion: Law and Order (\"black rage\" defense), Season 5, Episode 69414, Rage (2\/01\/95)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. From De Interpretatione: Aristotle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. Of Liberty and Necessity: David Hume\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. Meaning and Free Will: John Hospers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. Determinism: J. R. Lucas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person: Harry G. Frankfurt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. The M’Naghten Rules (1843): House of Lords\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. The Insanity Defense (1956): The American Law Institute\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48. What Is So Special About Mental Illness?: Joel Feinberg\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: Philosophy of Religion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilms: Jason and the Argonauts; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; Dogma; YouTube: Mr Deity and the Evil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49. The Wager: Blaise Pascal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50. The Ontological Argument: Anselm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51. The Cosmological and Design Arguments: William L. Rowe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52. Evil and Omnipotence: J. L. Mackie\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53. Why I Am Not a Christian: Bertrand Russell\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRichard Fumerton\u003c\/b\u003e is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMetaphysical and Epistemological Problems of Perception\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), \u003ci\u003eReason and Morality: A Defense of the Egocentric Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), \u003ci\u003eMetaepistemology and Skepticism\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eRealism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eEpistemology\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2005), and \u003ci\u003eMill\u003c\/i\u003e (with Wendy Donner, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). His present teaching and research interests include epistemology, metaphysics, and value theory.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiane Jeske\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. Her teaching and research interests include ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRationality and Moral Theory: How Intimacy Generates Reasons\u003c\/i\u003e (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e  From \u003ci\u003eMonty Python\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, popular films offer surprisingly perceptive insights into complex philosophical concepts. \u003ci\u003eIntroducing Philosophy Through Film\u003c\/i\u003e combines this novel pedagogical approach with all the virtues of a serious introductory anthology of classical and contemporary philosophical readings. The result is an engaging and effective way to fire the imagination of those new to philosophy. Drawing on a wide range of popular and easily accessible films – along with the ideas of a diverse selection of historical and contemporary thinkers – this book introduces many of the central areas of philosophical concern, including perception, philosophy of mind, ethics, religion, free will, determinism, and more. Chapter by chapter, the editors offer a discussion of relevant film clips to help illuminate and demystify the philosophical arguments and positions raised in the anthology's readings.  \u003cp\u003eBy merging the cinematic and philosophical worlds, \u003ci\u003eIntroducing Philosophy Through Film\u003c\/i\u003e provides a uniquely effective way for beginning students to engage with philosophy and gain insights into the human mind.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"\u003ci\u003eIntroducing Philosophy Through Film\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly wonderful introduction to the core problems of philosophy. Its combination of great films, classic articles from both historical and contemporary philosophers, wonderfully clear introductions to each section, and provocative questions for discussion make for an introduction that is as compelling as it is rigorous.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003cb\u003eRichard Foley,\u003c\/b\u003e New York University  \u003cp\u003e\"Fumerton and Jeske have compiled an excellent anthology, filled with dozens of classic texts on the central problems of philosophy most often addressed in introductory philosophy courses. And the films they suggest will help introduce students to philosophy in the most enjoyable way possible.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003cb\u003eMichael Huemer,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Colorado\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989454602469,"sku":"NP9781405171021","price":116.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405171021.jpg?v=1761784165","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/introducing-philosophy-through-film-isbn-9781405171021","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}