30-second philosophies
Subtitle: the 50 most thought-provoking philosophies, each explained in half a minute
By: editor, Barry Loewer ; foreword Stephen Law ; contributors Julian Baggini ... [et al.].
Publisher: Metro Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781435109575
Subjects: Philosophy; History
Other titles: Thirty-second philosophies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-157) and index.
Table of contents: title: Language & Logic; title: Glossary; title: Aristotle's syllogisms; title: Russell's paradox & Frege's logicism; title: profile: Aristotle; title: Russell's theory of description; title: Frege's puzzle; title: Gödel's theorem; title: Epimenides' liar paradox; title: Eubulides' heap; title: Science & Epistemology; title: Glossary; title: I think therefore I am; title: Gettier's counter example; title: profile: Karl Popper; title: The brain in a vat; title: Hume's problem of induction; title: Goodman's gruesome riddle; title: Popper's conjectures & refutations; title: Kuhn's scientific revolutions; title: Mind & Metaphysics; title: Glossary; title: Descartes mind-body problem; title: Brentano's intentionality; title: Fodor's language of thought; title: Parfit's persons; title: profile: René Descartes; title: Chalmer's zombies; title: Zeno's paradoxes; title: Kant's left hand; title: Theseus' ship; title: Laplace's demon, determinism, & free will; title: Ryle's ghost in the machine; title: Ethics & Political Philosophy; title: Glossary; title: Aristotle's ethics; title: States of nature and the social contract; title: Kant's categorical imperative; title: profile: Immanuel Kant; title: Mill's utilitarianism; title: Marx's historical materialism; title: The trolley problem; title: Religion; title: Glossary; title: Aquinas' five ways; title: Anselm's ontological argument; title: profile: Thomas Aquinas; title: Epicurus' riddle; title: Paley's watchmaker; title: Pascal's wager; title: Hume against miracles; title: Grand Moments; title: Glossary; title: Socrates' method; title: Plato's cave; title: Aristotle's four causes; title: Lucretius' atomism; title: profile: Ludwig Wittgenstein; title: Berkeley's idealism; title: Kant's synthetic a priori; title: Hegel's dialectic; title: James' pragmatism; title: Moore's common sense; title: Wittgenstein's picture theory of language; title: Continental Philosophy; title: Glossary; title: Nietzsche's Superman; title: profile: Friedrich Nietzsche; title: Derrida's deconstruction; title: Heidegger's nothing; title: Sartre's bad faith.