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Questions That Matter Ed L. Miller

Questions That Matter By Ed L. Miller

Questions That Matter by Ed L. Miller


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Introducing students to the issues, problems, perspectives and personalities of Western philosophy, this text is organized around four key questions in philosophy: reality, knowledge, God and morality.

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Questions That Matter: Invitation to Philosophy by Ed L. Miller

Introducing students to the issues, problems, perspectives and personalities of Western philosophy, this text is organized around four key questions in philosophy: reality, knowledge, God and morality.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? The Word Itself The Fields of Philosophy A Rational, Critical Enterprise Differing Conceptions A Working Definition Chapter 1 in Review CHAPTER 2: A LITTLE LOGIC The Three Laws of Thought What Is An Argument? Deductive Reasoning Inductive Reasoning Informal Fallacies Chapter 2 in Review PART ONE: THE QUESTION OF REALITY CHAPTER 3: THE IDEA OF FORM Plato and Socrates The Two Worlds: Appearance and Reality The Theory of the Forms Degrees of Reality and Knowledge The Good the Sun, and the Cave Aristotle's Criticism of Plato Aristotle's View of Form After Plato and Aristotle Chapter 3 in Review CHAPTER 4: MIND AND MATTER Descartes: The Father of Modern Philosophy "What Can I Know for Certain?" The Intuition of Mind The Deduction of God The Deduction of Matter Some Objections The Mind-Body Problem Mind: A Set of Dispositions or Functions Chapter 4 in Review CHAPTER 5: MATERIALISM What Is Materialism? Man a Machine The New Materialism Are the Mind and Body Identical? Beyond Freedom and Dignity: Skinner Are All Things Determined? Chapter 5 in Review PART TWO: THE QUESTION OF KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER 6: THE WAY OF REASON Two Main Theories about the Basis of Knowledge Reason as the Basic of Knowledge The Rationalism of Plato The Rationalism of Descartes A Contemporary Version: Chomsky Chapter 6 in Review CHAPTER 7: THE WAY OF EXPERIENCE What Is Empiricism? Classical Empiricism: Aristotle and St. Thomas Modern Empiricism: Locke Radical Empiricism: Hume Chapter 7 in Review (Part contents)

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CIN0070422648G
9780070422643
0070422648
Questions That Matter: Invitation to Philosophy by Ed L. Miller
Used - Good
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
1997-09-30
480
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