This Is Modern Philosophy: An Introduction

Provides students and general readers with a basic understanding of the central concepts, issues, and thinkers of the early modern era of philosophy

Is there a world that exists apart from ourselves? If an external world exists, what is its nature?

Can an external world based on evidence from our sense perception be known? How do such questions arise? Is it even possible for them to be answered? This is Modern Philosophy: An Introduction surveys how philosophers from the late sixteenth cent...