Engaging philosophy
Subtitle: a brief introduction
By: Mitchell S. Green.
Publisher: Hackett Pub. Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Indianapolis, IN
Language: eng
Subjects: Philosophy -- Introductions.
Genres: Introductions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Reasoning: truth and prudence; title: Grounds for belief; title: What is an argument?; title: Fallacies of theoretical rationality; title: What is practical reasoning?; title: Fallacies of practical rationality; title: The greatest conceivable being; title: Theological arguments; title: The argument from design; title: The cosmological argument; title: The ontological argument; title: Pascal's "wager"; title: The argument from morality; title: A theological arguments; title: The paradox of the stone; title: The argument from evil; title: Right and wrong; title: Ethical egoism; title: Utilitarianism; title: Critiques of utilitarianism; title: Intermission : moral relativism; title: Kantian ethics; title: The matter of minds; title: Plato's tripartite soul; title: Descartes' simple mind; title: La Mettrie and machines; title: Ryle and the category mistake; title: The identity theory; title: Minds as computers; title: Consciousness; title: Are you free?; title: Universal determinism and its challenge to freedom; title: Does quantum mechanics save freedom?; title: Hume's compatibilism; title: Libertarian critiques of Hume; title: Hard determinism and the illusion of freedom; title: Is conscious will an illusion?; title: Freedom of will; title: What is a person?; title: Synnchronic and diachronic questions of identity; title: Synchronic identity; title: Memory links and identity over time; title: Bodily continuity and identity over time.