30-Second Philosophies : the 50 Most Thought-provoking Philosophies, Each Explained in Half a Minute.: the 50 Most Thought-provoking Philosophies, Each Explained in Half a Minute. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Law, Stephen
• Contents: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- How to become a philosopher -- Language & Logic -- GLOSSARY -- Aristotle's syllogisms -- Russell's paradox & Frege's logicism -- profile: Aristotle -- Russell's theory of description -- Frege's puzzle -- Godel's theorem -- Epimenides' liar paradox -- Eubulides' heap -- Science & Epistemology -- GLOSSARY -- I think therefore I am -- Gettier's counter example -- profile: Karl Popper -- The brain in a vat -- Hume's problem of induction -- Goodman's gruesome riddle -- Popper's conjectures & refutations -- Kuhn's scientific revolutions -- Mind & Metaphysics -- GLOSSARY -- Descartes mind-body problem -- Brentano's intentionality -- Fodor's language of thought -- Parfit's persons -- profile: Rene Descartes -- Chalmer's zombies -- Zeno's paradoxes -- Kant's left hand -- Theseus' ship -- Laplace's demon, determinism, & free will -- Ryle's ghost in the machine -- Ethics & Political Philosophy -- GLOSSARY -- Aristotle's ethics -- States of nature and the social contract -- Kant's categorical imperative -- profile: Immanuel Kant -- Mill's utilitarianism -- Marx's historical materialism -- The trolley problem -- Religion -- GLOSSARY -- Aquinas' five ways -- Anselm's ontological argument -- profile: Thomas Aquinas -- Epicurus' riddle -- Paley's watchmaker -- Pascal's wager -- Hume against miracles -- Grand Moments -- GLOSSARY -- Socrates' method -- Plato's cave -- Aristotle's four causes -- Lucretius' atomism -- profile: Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Berkeley's idealism -- Kant's synthetic a priori -- Hegel's dialectic -- James' pragmatism -- Moore's common sense -- Wittgenstein's picture theory of language -- Continental philosophy -- GLOSSARY -- Nietzsche's Superman -- profile: Friedrich Nietzsche -- Derrida's deconstruction -- Heidegger's nothing -- Sartre's bad faith. Notes on contributors -- Resources -- Acknowledgments.
• Publisher Details: Duxford : Icon Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2010
• Copyright Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (210 pages)
• Subjects: 100; Aesthetics; Explanation; Philosophy; Philosophy; Explication; Philosophie; philosophy; Aesthetics; Explanation; Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848314504; 1848314507
• Related ISBNs: 9781848311626
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