Palmer, Donald. <br/><br/>
Looking at philosophy :  the unbearable heaviness of philosophy made lighter / 
Donald Palmer, Professor Emeritus at College of Marin (Formerly Visiting Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University). 
 - Sixth edition. 
 - New York, NY :  McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.,  ò013. 
 - xiii, 462 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: Introduction1. THE PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS: SIXTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES B.C.E. Thales / Anaximander / Anaximenes / Pythagoras / Xenophanes / Heraclitus / Parmenides / Zeno / Empedocles / Anaxagoras / Leucippus and Democritus 2. THE ATHENIAN PERIOD: FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES B.C.E. The Sophists: Protagoras, Gorgias, Thrasymachus, Callicles and Critias / Socrates / Plato / Aristotle 3. THE HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PERIODS: FOURTH CENTURY B.C.E THROUGH FOURTH CENTURY C.E. Epicureanism / Stoicism / Skepticism / Neoplatonism 4. MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY: FIFTH THROUGH FIFTEENTH CENTURIES Saint Augustine / The Encyclopediasts / John Scotus Eriugena / Saint Anselm / Muslim and Jewish Philosophies: Averro✹, Maimonides / The Problem of Faith and Reason / The Problem of the Universals / Saint Thomas Aquinas / William of Ockham / Renaissance Philosophers 5. CONTINENTAL RATIONALISM AND BRITISH EMPIRICISM: THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES Descartes / Spinoza / Leibniz / Hobbes / Locke / Berkeley / Hume / Kant 6. POST-KANTIAN BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Hegel / Schopenhauer / Kierkegaard / Marx / Nietzsche / Utilitarianism: Bentham, Mill 7. THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL TRADITION AND ITS AFTERMATH: THE LATE NINETEENTH INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre / Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Saussure, Le;vi-Strauss, Lacan, Derrida 8. PRAGMATISM AND THE ANALYTIC TRADITION Pragmatism: James, Dewey / The Analytic Tradition: Frege, Moore, Russell, Logical Positivism, Wittgenstein, Quine / Farewell to the Twentieth Century: Nussbaum Glossary of Philosophical Terms Selected Bibliography Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780078038266 (pbk.)  RM 207.71 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Philosophy--History.<br/>Philosophy--History--Caricatures and cartoons.<br/>American wit and humor, Pictorial.