Core questions in philosophy. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Core questions in philosophy. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Core questions in philosophy
- Further Information:
- Note: Elliott Sober.
- Authors:
- Sober, Elliott
- Contents:
- Preface Part One: Introduction 1. What Is Philosophy? 2. Deductive Arguments 3. Inductive and Abductive Arguments Part Two: Philosophy of Religion 4. Aquinas’s First Four Ways 5. The Design Argument 6. Evolution and Creationism 7. Can Science Explain Everything? 8. The Ontological Argument 9. Is the Existence of God Testable? 10. Pascal and Irrationality 11. The Argument from Evil Part Three: Theory of Knowledge 12. What Is Knowledge? 13. Descartes’ Foundationalism 14. The Reliability Theory of Knowledge 15. Justified Belief and Hume’s Problem of Induction 16. Can Hume’s Skepticism Be Refuted? 17. Beyond Foundationalism 18. Locke on the Existence of External Objects Part Four: Philosophy of Mind 19. Dualism and the Mind/Body Problem 20. Logical Behaviorism 21. Methodological Behaviorism 22. The Mind/Brain Identity Theory 23. Functionalism 24. Freedom, Determinism, and Causality 25. A Menu of Positions on Free Will 26. Compatibilism 27. Psychological Egoism Part Five: Ethics 28. Ethics—Normative and Meta 29. The Is/Ought Gap and the Naturalistic Fallacy 30. Observation and Explanation in Ethics 31. Conventionalist Theories 32. Utilitarianism 33. Kant’s Moral Theory 34. Aristotle on the Good Life
- Edition:
- Seventh edition
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 100
Philosophy -- Introductions - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781351043380
9781351043397
9781351043373
9781351043403 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781138487352
9781138487338 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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