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Core Questions in Philosophy Elliott Sober

Core Questions in Philosophy By Elliott Sober

Core Questions in Philosophy by Elliott Sober

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Core Questions in Philosophy by Elliott Sober

For introductory philosophy courses.

Presented in an engaging lecture-style format, this text/reader focuses on the basic issues and ideas in philosophy with lectures/discussions, supported by readings from historically important sources. Discussions emphasize the logic of philosophical arguments and how they relate to the content of modern physical and social sciences.

Core Questions in Philosophy emphasizes the idea that philosophy is a subject de voted to evaluating arguments and constructing theories.

Table of Contents

PART I. INTRODUCTION

1. What Is Philosophy?

2. Deductive Arguments

3. Inductive and Abductive Arguments

PART II. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

4. Aquinas' 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

Readings

Five Ways to Prove That God Exists -- Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Design Argument -- William Paley

Critique of the Design Argument -- David Hume

The Ontological Argument -- Saint Anselm and Gaunilo

The Meaninglessness of Religious Discourse -- Alfred Jules Ayer

Belief in God - What Do You Have to Lose? - Blaise Pascal

The Will to Believe -- William James

Suggestions for Further Reading

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

Readings

Meditations on First Philosophy -- Rene Descartes

Induction Cannot Be Rationally Justified -- David Hume

Suggestions for Further Reading

PART IV. 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

Readings

Other Minds Are Known by Analogy from One's Own Case -- Bertrand Russell

Is Consciousness a Brain Process? - U.T. Place

Determinism Shows that Free Will is an Illusion - Baron d'Holbach

Of Liberty and Necessity -- David Hume Has the Self "Free Will"? -- C.A. Campbell

What Motivates People to Act Justly? -- Plato

Suggestions for Further Reading

PART V. 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

Readings

Existentialism -- Jean-Paul Sartre

Defense of Utilitarianism -- John Stuart Mill

Ethics Founded on Reason -- Immanuel Kant

Morality and Human Nature -- Aristotle

Suggestions for Further Reading

Glossary

Index

Additional information

CIN0132437783G
9780132437783
0132437783
Core Questions in Philosophy by Elliott Sober
Elliott Sober
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
2008-04-17
560
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