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Core questions in philosophy :

0131898698

9780131898691

Core questions in philosophy :

[Book]

a text with readings /

Elliott Sober.

4th ed.

Upper Saddle River, N.J. :

Pearson/Prentice Hall,

©2005.

xi, 564 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is philosophy? -- Deductive arguments -- Inductive and abductive arguments -- Aquinas's first four ways -- The design argument -- Evolution and creationism -- Can science explain everything? -- The ontological argument -- Is the existence of God testable? -- Pascal and irrationality -- The argument from evil -- Five ways to prove that God exists / St. Thomas Aquinas -- The design argument / William Paley -- Critique of the design argument / David Hume -- The ontological argument / St. Anselm and Gaunilo -- The will to believe / William James -- The meaninglessness of religious discourse / Alfred Jules Ayer -- Defending atheism / Ernest Nagel -- What is knowledge? -- Descartes's foundationalism -- The reliability theory of knowledge -- Justified belief and Hume's problem of induction -- Can Hume's skepticism be refuted? -- Beyond foundationalism -- Introduction to probability -- Bayes's theorem -- Knowledge is something more than true belief / Plato -- Meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes -- Induction cannot be rationally justified / David Hume -- Dualism and the mind/body problem -- Logical behaviorism -- Methodological behaviorism -- The mind/body identity theory -- Functionalism -- Freedom, determinism, and causality -- A menu of positions on free will -- Compatibilism -- Psychological egoism -- Other minds are known by analogy from one's own case / Bertrand Russell -- Mental processes are physical / J.J.C. Smart -- Of liberty and necessity / David Hume -- Has the self "free will"? / C.A. Campbell -- Determinism rules out freedom / B.F. Skinner -- Ethics -- normative and meta -- This is/ought gap and the naturalistic fallacy -- Observation and explanation in ethics -- Conventionalist theories -- Utilitarianism -- Kant's moral theory -- Aristotle on the good life -- Critique of the divine command theory / Plato -- Existentialism / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Defense of utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Ethics founded on reason / Immanuel Kant -- Morality and human nature / Aristotle.

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Presented in an engaging lecture-style format, this combined textbook-anthology presents a series of discussions on the basic issues and ideas in philosophy, with lectures supported by related readings from historically important sources. While the author's lecture approach lends this book a natural flow and sense of immediacy, it comprises a fully integrated book with all of the traditional organizational and pedagogical features to aid users' learning, including chapter summaries, marginal notes, boxed inserts, discussion questions, problems, test questions, a glossary, and bibliography. The discussions emphasize the logic of philosophical arguments; and, in particular, how they relate to the content of modern physical and social sciences.

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