Philosophy. A Text with Readings, 13th edition

When the early Greek philosopher Heraclitus declared “Everything changes!” he could have been speaking of our own era. What word could characterize our time better than the world “change”? New fashions, fads, styles, technologies, and philosophies now supplant each other in ever shorter periods of time. Many believe that the increasing pace of change has profound implications for philosophy. Whether or not this is so, rapid change forces revisions of a more mundane kind in textbooks on philosophy such as this. So although Philosophy: A Text with Readings continues to excite readers about philosophy, changes in philosophy and in the world we inhabit necessitate revising the text.