Core Questions in Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367464981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 338 str.

Elliott Sober

Opis

Shows students how philosophy is used to evaluate arguments and construct theories. An engaging lecture-style format, with key concepts and review qs to assist. Primary sources, secondary reading, audio, and video listed online. 8th ed adds new chapter 'Probability and Bayes' Theorem' and other material.

Spis treści

Preface  Part I: Introduction  1. What Is Philosophy?  2. Deductive Arguments  3. Inductive and Abductive Arguments  Part II: 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 III: 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  19. Probability and Bayes’s Theorem  Part IV: Philosophy of Mind  20. Dualism and the Mind/Body Problem  21. Logical Behaviorism  22. Methodological Behaviorism  23. The Mind/Brain Identity Theory  24. Functionalism  25. Freedom, Determinism, and Causality  26. A Menu of Positions on Free Will  27. Compatibilism  28. Psychological Egoism  Part V: Ethics  29. Ethics—Normative and Meta  30. The Is/Ought Gap and the Naturalistic Fallacy  31. Observation and Explanation in Ethics  32. Conventionalist Theories  33. Utilitarianism  34. Kant’s Moral Theory  35. Aristotle on the Good Life