Pathways in Philosophy: An Introductory Guide with Readings by Dale Jacquette (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University)
This introduction to philosophy combines the two approaches most commonly employed to teach philosophy to college freshmen - the problems approach and the historical approach. It includes chapters on the major problems or questions in philosophy - what we can know, what exists, the mind-body problem, the existence of God, what is moral, etc. - and it addresses these problems by focusing each chapter on a particular text by a major philosopher.