Reliabililty Engineering Handbook, Vol. 1 - Dimitri Kececioglu - Hardcover Book

One thing I like about introduction to philosophy books, over histories of philosophy, is one gets to wade through many philosophical ideas and problems all approached from the biased perspective of the author, instead of (as with histories) just a summery of what dead philosophers thought. I find it interesting getting to hear someones opinions and reactions to the great thinkers throughout history, this all seems much more lively to me. Much of the book touches on the philosophy of mind, making a case for Parallelism (the idea that their is no causal relationship between the mental and the physical). The author dismisses the notion that Parallelism would result in man being an automaton, though not using the word, I got the impression that Fullerton is a compatibilist and thought libertarian freewill rather naive, I thought he created some strawmen however and didn't take the problems of parallelism seriously enough. Fullerton spent a decent amount of time arguing against Idealism, even in it's milder forms, he wouldn't agree with those that we can never directly know a thing, but only our perception of the thing. Fullerton didn't persuade me to his point of view on various topics, but showed me I need to reflect more on these subjects and refine my own opinions on them.