Preliminary material /Editors Thinking about Provincialism in Thinking -- INTRODUCTION /Katarzyna Paprzycka and Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- ON THE HIDDEN UNITY OF SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES (1998) /Leszek Nowak -- THE STRUCTURE OF PROVINCIAL THOUGHT. HALF ESSAY, HALF THESIS (1998) /Leszek Nowak -- MODELS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (1976) /Leszek Nowak -- NATIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES. REFLECTIONS ON TWARDOWSKI'S VIEWS /Jan Woleński -- FROM COSMOPOLITISM TO NATIONAL-POPULAR CULTURE. GRAMSCIAN ATTEMPT AT OVERCOMING PROVINCIALISM /Giacomo Borbone -- HUMAN ON THE PERIPHERY OF COMMUNITY. WITOLD GOMBROWICZ ON PROVINCIALISM /Mieszko Ciesielski -- HISPANIC-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY IN THE FRINGES OF THE EMPIRE /Adolfo García de la Sienra and Leandro Rodríguez Medina -- DOES HISTORIOGRAPHY NEED TO BE PROVINCIAL?. INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION OF IDEAS AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE COOPERATION OF POLISH AND FRENCH HISTORIANS IN THE PERIOD OF THE PEOPLE'S OF REPUBLIC OF POLAND /Patryk Pleskot -- METHODOLOGICAL UNIVERSALISM IN SCIENCE AND ITS LIMITS. IMPERIALISM VERSUS COMPLEXITY /Wenceslao J. Gonzalez -- ORIENTALISM AS A SIGN OF PROVINCIALISM /Eliza Karczyńska -- THE CONTEXT OF THE 'THIRD MISSION ' IN THE 'PERIPHERAL UNIVERSITIES '. A CASE STUDY OF THE 'CROSS-BORDER UNIVERSITY ' /Cezary Kościelniak -- ON COURAGE OF ACTIONS AND COWARDICE OF THINKING. LESZEK NOWAK ON THE PROVINCIALISM OF THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SOLIDARNOŚĆ /Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- PARADIGMS, MARKETS, AND POLITICS. FROM PROVINCE TO METROPOLIS AND RETOUR /Max Urchs and Uwe Scheffler -- SOME REMARKS ON THE SPACE-TIME OF CULTURE /Barbara Przybylska-Czajkowska and Waldemar Czajkowski -- THE INTELLECTUAL SUPERPOWER. AN ATTEMPT AT A CORRECTION OF NOWAK'S MODEL OF PROVINCIALISM /Katarzyna Paprzycka.

An inexpensive but comprehensive introduction. Examples and homework problems touch on philosophical issues much more so than standard texts, providing instructors an opportunity to ease into philosophical discussions as desired and piquing student interest. Homework assignments are on tear-out pages for ease of use. While Critical Thinking and Logic: A Philosophical Workbook covers standard issues of critical thinking such as argument types and fallacies, it also provides a solid foundation for an advanced course in formal logic. The final chapter includes a complete translation of Descartes’s Meditations, allowing students to put their newly acquired skills to work on a classic work of philosophy.

"A remarkably detailed, knowing, critical, and even-handed study of one of the most dramatic, complex, and prophetic sociologists of our time". -- Robert K. Merton, author of On the Shoulders of Giants. "A major contribution to the history of sociology". -- Robert Bierstedt, author of American Sociological Theory.