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An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis John Hospers

An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis By John Hospers

An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis by John Hospers


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Providing an in-depth, problem-oriented introduction to philosophical analysis, this text should be appropriate for introductory courses in philosophy.

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An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis by John Hospers

Appropriate for introductory courses in Philosophy.

This text provides an in-depth, problem-oriented introduction to philosophical analysis using an extremely clear, readable approach. The Fourth Edition only updates coverage throughout the book, but also restores the introductory chapter-Words and the World-the most distinguished, widely acclaimed feature of the first two editions.

Table of Contents



1.Words and the World: Language and Reality.

Philosophical Questions.

Words and Things.

Definition.

Vagueness.

Connotation.

Ostensive Definition.

Meaninglessness.



2.What Can We Know? Knowledge.

What is Knowing?

The Sources of Knowledge.

Exercises.



3.What Is the World Like? Perceiving the World.

Common-Sense Realism.

Berkeley's Idealism.

The Attack on Foundations.

Exercises.



4.The Way the World Works: Scientific Knowledge.

Laws of Nature.

Explanation.

Theories.

Possibility.

The Problem of Induction.

Exercises.



5.What Is and What Must Be: Freedom and Necessity.

Mathematics.

Kant and the Synthetic Apriori.

Causality.

Determinism and Freedom.

Exercises.



6.What Am I? Mind and Body.

The Physical and the Mental.

The Relation Between the Physical and the Mental.

Personal Identity.

Exercises.



7.What Else Is There? Philosophy of Religion.

Religious Experience.

The Ongological Argument.

The Cosmological Argument.

The Argument from Miracles.

The Teleological Argument (The Argument from Design).

Anthropomorphism and Mysticism.

Exercises.



8.The Is and the Ought: Problems in Ethics.

Meta-ethics.

The Good.

Theories of Conduct.

Exercises.

Additional information

CIN0132663058G
9780132663052
0132663058
An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis by John Hospers
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
19970101
288
N/A
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