50 philosophy ideas: you really need to know /
Dupre, Ben
50 philosophy ideas: you really need to know / Fifty philosophy ideas you really need to know Ben Dupre - London : Quercus, 2007 - 208 p., 21 cm.
Includes index
PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE: The brain in a vat; Plato's cave; The veil of perception; Cogito ergo sum; Reason and experience; The tripartite theory of knowledge. pp.4-27 MIND MATTERS: The mind-body problem; What is it like to be a bat? The Turing test; The ship of Theseus; Other minds. pp.28-47 ETHICS: Hume's guillotine; One man's meat...; The divine command theory; The boo/hoorah theory; Ends and means; The experience machine; The categorical imperative; The golden rule; Acts and omissions; Slippery slopes; Beyond the call of duty; Is it bad to be unlucky? Virtue ethics. pp.48-99 ANIMAL RIGHTS: Do animals feel pain? Do animals have rights? pp.100-107 LOGIC AND MEANING: Forms of argument; The barber paradox; The gambler's fallacy; The sorites paradox; The king of France is bald; The beetle in the box. pp.108-131 SCIENCE: Science and pseudoscience; Paradigm shift; Occam's razor. pp.132-143 AESTHETICS: What is art? The intentional fallacy. pp.144-151 RELIGION: The argument from design; The cosmological argument; The ontological argument; The problem of evil; The freewill defence; Faith and reason. pp.152-175 POLITICS, JUSTICE AND SOCIETY: Positive and negative freedom; The difference principle; Leviathan; The prisoner's dilemma; Theories of punishment; Lifeboat Earth; Just war. pp.176-203
9781847240064
PHILOSOPHY--INTRODUCTIONS
PHILOSOPHY
BD 21 / D87F 2007
50 philosophy ideas: you really need to know / Fifty philosophy ideas you really need to know Ben Dupre - London : Quercus, 2007 - 208 p., 21 cm.
Includes index
PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE: The brain in a vat; Plato's cave; The veil of perception; Cogito ergo sum; Reason and experience; The tripartite theory of knowledge. pp.4-27 MIND MATTERS: The mind-body problem; What is it like to be a bat? The Turing test; The ship of Theseus; Other minds. pp.28-47 ETHICS: Hume's guillotine; One man's meat...; The divine command theory; The boo/hoorah theory; Ends and means; The experience machine; The categorical imperative; The golden rule; Acts and omissions; Slippery slopes; Beyond the call of duty; Is it bad to be unlucky? Virtue ethics. pp.48-99 ANIMAL RIGHTS: Do animals feel pain? Do animals have rights? pp.100-107 LOGIC AND MEANING: Forms of argument; The barber paradox; The gambler's fallacy; The sorites paradox; The king of France is bald; The beetle in the box. pp.108-131 SCIENCE: Science and pseudoscience; Paradigm shift; Occam's razor. pp.132-143 AESTHETICS: What is art? The intentional fallacy. pp.144-151 RELIGION: The argument from design; The cosmological argument; The ontological argument; The problem of evil; The freewill defence; Faith and reason. pp.152-175 POLITICS, JUSTICE AND SOCIETY: Positive and negative freedom; The difference principle; Leviathan; The prisoner's dilemma; Theories of punishment; Lifeboat Earth; Just war. pp.176-203
9781847240064
PHILOSOPHY--INTRODUCTIONS
PHILOSOPHY
BD 21 / D87F 2007