Rethinking Our World

Rethinking our World will be invaluable to undergraduate students and to a more general readership seeking an understanding of the major philosophies. Philip Higgs and Jane Smith outline the basic tenets of each philosophy, analyse the type of thinking it encourages, and discuss its history and the major figures who influenced it. This text is an accessible and interactive introduction to critical thinking and covers the following major philosophies:
- logic and post-empiricism
- critical rationalism
- critical theory
- phenomenology
- hermeneutics
- systems theory
- postmodernism
- feminism
- African philosophy