Philosophy
Subtitle: A Text with Readings
Edition: Twelfth Edition (1)
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 645
ISBN-13: 9781133933427
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Philosophy, introductions
Table of contents: title: 1. The nature of philosophy --; title: What is philosophy? --; title: Plato's Myth of the cave --; title: Plato's Parable and "doing" philosophy --; title: Assumptions and critical thinking --; title: The diversity of philosophy --; title: Reasoning --; title: The traditional divisions of philosophy --; title: Epistemology : the study of knowledge --; title: Avoiding vague and ambiguous claims --; title: Metaphysics : the study of reality or existence --; title: Philosophical issues --; title: Supporting claims with reasons and arguments --; title: Ethics : the study of values --; title: Other philosophical inquiries --; title: A philosopher in action : Socrates --; title: Euthyphro : do we know what holiness is? --; title: Evaluating arguments --; title: The Republic : is justice what benefits the powerful? --; title: The Apology : Socrates' trial --; title: Crito : do we have an obligation to obey the law? --; title: Identifying premises, conclusions, and assumptions --; title: Breaking the law for the sake of justice --; title: The value of philosophy --; title: Achieving freedom --; title: Building your view of life --; title: cultivating awareness --; title: Albert Ellis and rational emotive behavior therapy --; title: Learning to think critically --; title: Does philosophy have a male bias? --; title: The theme of this text --; title: Reading : "Story of a good Brahman" / Voltaire --; title: Pre-Socratic Western philosophers --; title: Eastern philosophers --; title: 2. Human nature --; title: Why does your view of human nature matter? --; title: Deductive arguments, validity, and soundness --; title: The importance of understanding human nature --; title: Is selflessness real? --; title: What is human nature? --; title: The rationalistic version of the traditional Western view of human nature --; title: Is human nature irrational? --; title: The Judeo-Christian version of the traditional Western view of human nature --; title: The Darwinian challenge --; title: Inference to the best explanation --; title: The existentialist challenge --; title: The feminist challenge --; title: The mind-body problem : how do mind and body relate? --; title: The dualist view of human nature --; title: Evaluating an argument's premises --; title: The materialist view of human nature --; title: The mind/brain identity theory of human nature --; title: The behaviorist view of human nature --; title: The functionalist view of human nature --; title: Eliminative materialism --; title: The new dualism --; title: Is there an enduring self? --; title: The soul as the enduring self --; title: Memory ass the source of the enduring self --; title: The no-self view --; title: Are we independent and self-sufficient individuals? --; title: The atomistic self --; title: The relational self --; title: Power and Hegel's view --; title: Culture and self-identity --; title: Search for thee real self --; title: Readings : "The end of the party" / Graham Green --; title: "The self and substance dualism" / Garrett I. DeWeese and J.P. Moreland --; title: "The mind-body problem" / John R. Searle --; title: Plato, Aristotle, and Confucius. 3. Reality and being --; title: What is real? --; title: The experience machine, or does reality matter? --; title: Metaphysical questions of reality --; title: The search for reality --; title: Reality : material or nonmaterial? --; title: Materialism : reality as matter --; title: Objections to materialism --; title: The neutrino --; title: Idealism : reality as nonmatter --; title: Our knowledge of the world --; title: Conditional and disjunctive arguments --; title: Objections to idealism --; title: Reality in pragmatism --; title: Pragmatism's approach to philosophy --; title: The pragmatic method --; title: Objections to pragmatism --; title: Reality and logical positivism --; title: Parallel universes --; title: Categorical syllogism arguments --; title: Objections to logical positivism --; title: Antirealism : the heir of pragmatism and idealism --; title: Proponents of antirealism --; title: Objections to antirealism --; title: Encountering being : reality in phenomenology and existentialism --; title: Phenomenology --; title: Existentialism --; title: Objections to phenomenology and existentialism --; title: Is freedom real? --; title: Determinism --; title: Libertarianism --; title: Does our brain make our decisions before we consciously make them? --; title: Compatibilism --; title: Is time real? --; title: Time and human life --; title: Augustine : only the present moment is real --; title: McTaggart : subjective time is not real --; title: Kant : time is a mental construct --; title: Bergson : only subjective time is real --; title: Readings : "A toast to Captain Jerk" / Russell Maloney --; title: "Being more real" / Robert Nozick --; title: Hobbes and Berkeley --; title: 4. Philosophy, religion, and God --; title: The significance of religion --; title: Defining religion --; title: Religious belief, religious experience, and theology --; title: Does God exist? --; title: The ontological argument --; title: The cosmological argument --; title: Religion and science --; title: The design argument --; title: Arguments by analogy --; title: Atheism agnosticism, and the problem of evil --; title: Atheism --; title: God's omniscience and free will --; title: Agnosticism --; title: Formal and informal fallacies --; title: Traditional religious belief and experience --; title: Religious belief --; title: "The will to believe" --; title: Personal experience of the divine --; title: Nontraditional religious experience --; title: Radical theology --; title: Feminist theology --; title: Eastern religious traditions --; title: Readings : "The Brothers Karamazov" (excerpt) / Fyodor Dostoevsky --; title: "The inductive argument from evil and the human cognitive condition" / William P. Alston --; title: Aquinas, Descartes, and Conway. 5. The sources of knowledge --; title: Why is knowledge a problem? --; title: Acquiring reliable knowledge : reason and the senses --; title: The place of memory --; title: Is reason the source of our knowledge? --; title: Descartes : doubt and reason --; title: Innate ideas --; title: Can the senses account for all our knowledge? --; title: Locke and empiricism --; title: Science and the attempt to observe reality --; title: Berkeley and subjectivism --; title: Hume and skepticism --; title: Inductive generalizations --; title: Kant : does the knowing mind shape the world? --; title: Hume's challenge --; title: The basic issue --; title: Space, time, and mathematics --; title: Knowledge and Gestalt psychology --; title: Causality and the unity of the mind --; title: Romantic philosophers --; title: Constructivist theories and recovered memories --; title: Does science give us knowledge? --; title: Inductive reasoning and simplicity --; title: Society and truth --; title: The hypothetical method and falsifiability --; title: Paradigms and revolutions in science --; title: Distinguishing science from pseudoscience --; title: Is the theory of recovered memories science or pseudoscience? --; title: Readings : "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" / Ambrose Bierce --; title: "A defense of skepticism" / Peter Ungera --; title: "How do we know anything?" / Thomas Nagel --; title: Hume --; title: 6. Truth --; title: Knowledge, truth, and justification --; title: Knowledge as justified true belief --; title: Justification --; title: What is truth? --; title: Correspondence theory --; title: Coherence theory --; title: Truth and paradox --; title: Historical facts --; title: Pragmatic theory --; title: Does truth matter? --; title: Reconciling the theories of truth --; title: Deflating truth --; title: Does science give us truth? --; title: The instrumentalist view --; title: The realist view --; title: The conceptual relativist view --; title: Can interpretations be true? --; title: Symbolic interpretation and intention --; title: Wittgenstein and the ideal clear language --; title: Gadamer and prejudice --; title: Readings : "In a grove" / Ryunosuke Akutagawa --; title: "After truth : post-modernism and the rhetoric of science" / Hugh Tomlinson --; title: "Reality and truth" / John Searle. 7. Ethics --; title: What is ethics? --; title: Is ethics relative? --; title: Do consequences make an action right? --; title: Ethical egoism --; title: Utilitarianism --; title: Some implications of utilitarianism --; title: Do rules define morality? --; title: Divine command theory --; title: Embryonic stem cell research --; title: Implications of divine command ethics --; title: Kant's categorical imperative --; title: Buddhist ethics --; title: Is ethics based on character? --; title: Aristotle's theory of virtue --; title: Love and friendship --; title: Male and female ethics? --; title: Can ethics resolve moral quandaries? --; title: Abortion --; title: Euthanasia --; title: Moral reasoning --; title: Readings : "The heavenly Christmas tree" / Fyodor Dostoyevsky --; title: "Famine, affluence, and morality" / Peter Singer --; title: Nietzsche --; title: Wollstonecraft --; title: 8. Social and political philosophy --; title: What is social and political philosophy? --; title: What justifies the state? --; title: Hobbes and the war of all against all --; title: Locke and natural moral laws --; title: Rousseau and the general will --; title: Contemporary social contract : Rawls --; title: The communitarian critique --; title: Social contract and women --; title: What is justice? --; title: The purpose of business --; title: Justice as merit --; title: Justice and equality --; title: Justice as social utility --; title: Justice based on need and ability --; title: Justice based on liberty --; title: Welfare --; title: Limits on the state --; title: Unjust laws and civil disobedience --; title: Freedom --; title: Human rights --; title: War and terrorism --; title: Society and the bomb --; title: Readings : "All quiet on the Western Front" (excerpt) / Erich Maria Remarque --; title: "The ethics of war" / Bertrand Russell --; title: Marx --; title: Rawls --; title: 9. Postscript : the meaning of life --; title: Does life have meaning? --; title: What does the question mean? --; title: The theistic response to meaning --; title: Meaning and human progress --; title: The nihilist rejection of meaning --; title: Meaning as a self-chosen commitment. Ch. 3. Reality and being --; title: Ch. 4. Philosophy, religion, and God --; title: Ch. 5. The sources of knowledge --; title: Ch. 6. Truth --; title: Ch. 7. Ethics --; title: Ch. 8. Social and political philosophy --; title: Ch. 9. Postscript: The meaning of life.