Simply philosophy : guided readings /: guided readings. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Brendan Wilson.
• Editors: Wilson, Brendan, 1954-
• Contents: Contents; Introduction; 1. SCIENCE; Aristotle - on scientific knowledge; Francis Bacon - on scientific method; David Hume - on the concept of a cause; Karl Popper - on induction; Hilary Putnam - against Popper; Paul Feyerabend - on scientific method; 2. MIND; BF Skinner - on behaviourism; CS Peirce - on reality and truth; Bertrand Russell - on sense-data; Rudolf Carnap - on the argument from analogy; AJ Ayer - on other minds; Norman Malcolm - on other minds; Colin McGinn - on the mind/body problem; William James - on the reality of the mind; Paul Churchland - on the unreality of thoughts; 3. FREEDOM; Peter Strawson - on determinism; Norman Malcolm - on determinism; Daniel Dennett - on determinism; Max Black - on causality; Frederick Dretske - on the reality of meaning; Thomas Hobbes - on human nature; Immanuel Kant - on duty; Jeremy Bentham - on utilitarianism; Thomas Nagel - against utilitarianism; GEM Anscombe - on 'ought' and 'should'; 4. KNOWLEDGE; Galileo Galilei - on perception; Rene Descartes - on doubt; John Locke - on knowledge; Hilary Putnam/Noam Chomsky - on innate ideas; George Berkeley - on Idealism; Thomas Reid - against scepticism; Immanuel Kant - on causality; David Hume - on miracles; Bertrand Russell - on knowledge; L Jonathan Cohen - on empiricism; 5. LANGUAGE; John Locke - on language; Gilbert Ryle - on Mill's theory of names; Ludwig Wittgenstein - on naming; Saul Kripke - on naming; Hilary Putnam - on language; WV Quine - on language; Plato - on universals; John Searle - on computer 'understanding'; 6. OBJECTIVITY; Roderick Chisholm - on perception; AJ Ayer - on perception; Gilbert Ryle - on perception; Thomas Reid - on ideas; JB Watson - on behaviourism; Thomas Nagel - on qualia; JJC Smart - on mind/brain identity; Hilary Putnam - on functionalism; FH Bradley - on truth; Michael Dummett - on anti-realism; 7. GOD; Norman Malcolm - on the ontological argument; Thomas Aquinas - on the existence of God; Anthony Kenny - on teleology and design; Anthony Flew - on religious belief; Ludwig Wittgenstein - on religious belief; Soren Kierkegaard - on the 'absurdity' of belief; WH Newton-Smith - on metaphysics in cosmology; Further Reading; Copyright Acknowledgements; Glossary; Index.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 208 pages)
• Subjects: 109.2; Philosophy -- History; PHILOSOPHY / General; Philosophy; Einführung; Philosophie; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474473613
• Related ISBNs: 147447361X; 9780748618231; 0748618236
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