• ISBN13: 9781119010036
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Religion and Philosophy
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac
• Publication Date: February 15, 2015
• Pages: 240
• Original Price: USD 28.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 318 grams

About the Book Philosophical Writing: An Introduction , 4th Edition , features numerous updates and revisions to A. P. Martinich's best-selling text that instructs beginning philosophy students on how to craft a well-written philosophical essay.

• Features an entirely new chapter on how to read a philosophical essay, new sections on quantification and modality, and rhetoric in philosophical writing, as well as more updated essay examples
• Includes many new essay examples and an accompanying website with further topics and examples
• Traces the evolution of a good philosophical essay from draft stage to completion
• Emphasizes what a student should do in crafting an essay, rather than on what not to do
• Written with clarity and humor by a leading philosopher