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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Core Questions in Philosophy: A Text with Readings
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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.
Review:'\"I have yet to see another text that so ably exemplifies the methods of contemporary philosophy.\" – William Russell Payne, Bellevue Community College \"...It was a pleasure reading this book. It is innovative in design and it addresses philosophy in an original and unique manner.\" – Doug Frame, National University ' Synopsis:Presented in an engaging lecture-style format, this text/reader focuses on the basic issues and ideas in philosophy with lectures/discussions, supported by readings from historically important sources. Discussions emphasize the logic of philosophical arguments and how they relate to the content of modern physical and social sciences. For anyone looking for adequate answers to enduring questions.
Table of Contents'(NOTE: Each section concludes with Suggestions for Further Reading.) I. INTRODUCTION. Lectures.
1. What Is Philosophy?
2. Deductive Arguments.
3. Inductive and Abductive Arguments.
II. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. Lectures.
4. Aquinas\' First Four Ways.
5. The Design Argument.
6. Evolution and Creationism.
7. Can Science Explain Everything?
8. The Ontological Argument.
9. Is the Existence of God Testable?
10. Pascal and Irrationality.
11. The Argument from Evil.
Readings.
Five Ways to Prove That God Exists, Saint Thomas Aquinas.
The Design Argument, William Paley.
Critique of the Design Argument, David Hume.
The Ontological Argument, Saint Anselm and Gaunilo.
The Will to Believe, William James.
The Meaninglessness of Religious Discourse, Alfred Jules Ayer.
Defending Atheism, Ernest Nagel.
III. THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE. Lectures.
12. What Is Knowledge?
13. Descartes\' Foundationalism.
14. The Reliability Theory of Knowledge.
15. Justified Belief and Hume\'s Problem of Induction.
16. Can Hume\'s Skepticism Be Refuted?
17. Beyond Foundationalism.
18. Introduction to Probability — Bayes Theorem.
Readings.
Knowledge Is Something More than True Belief, Plato.
Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes.
Induction Cannot Be Rationally Justified, David Hume.
IV. PHILOSOPHY OF MIND. Lectures.
19. Dualism and the Mind/Body Problem.
20. Logical Behaviorism.
21. Methodological Behaviorism.
22. The Mind/Brain Identity Theory.
23. Functionalism.
24. Freedom, Determinism, and Causality.
25. A Menu of Positions on Free Will.
26. Compatibilism.
27. Psychological Egoism.
Readings.
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.
V. ETHICS. Lectures.
28. Ethics–Normative and Meta.
29. The Is/Ought Gap and the Naturalistic Fallacy.
30. Observation and Explanation in Ethics.
31. Conventionalist Theories.
32. Utilitarianism.
33. Kant\'s Moral Theory.
34. Aristotle on the Good Life.
Readings.
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.
Suggestions for Further Reading.
Glossary.
Index. \n ' What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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