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ISBN-10: 0130835374

ISBN-13: 9780130835376

Edition: 3rd 2001

Authors: Elliott Sober

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For introductory philosophy courses. Presented in an engaging lecture-style format, this combined textbook-anthology leads students through a series of discussions on the basic issues and ideas in philosophy, with lectures supported by related readings from historically important sources. The discussions emphasize the logic of philosophical arguments; and, in particular, how they relate to the content of modern physical and social sciences. While the author's lecture approach lends this book a natural flow and sense of immediacy, it comprises a fully integrated textbook with all of the traditional organizational and pedagogical features, including chapter summaries, marginal notes, boxed…    
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Book details

List price: $62.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 6/23/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 580
Size: 7.17" wide x 9.53" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English

Introduction
Lectures
What Is Philosophy?
Deductive Arguments
Inductive and Abductive Arguments
Philosophy of Religion
Lectures
Aquinas' 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
Readings
Five Ways to Prove That God Exists
The Design Argument
Critique of the Design Argument
The Ontological Argument
The Will to Believe
The Meaninglessness of Religious Discourse
Defending Atheism
Theory of Knowledge
Lectures
What Is Knowledge?
Descartes' Foundationalism
The Reliability Theory of Knowledge
Justified Belief and Hume's Problem of Induction
Can Hume's Skepticism Be Refuted?
Beyond Foundationalism
Readings
Knowledge Is Something More than True Belief
Meditations on First Philosophy
Induction Cannot Be Rationally Justified
Philosophy of Mind
Lectures
Dualism and the Mind/Body Problem
Logical Behaviorism
Methodological Behaviorism
The Mind/Brain Identity Theory
Functionalism
Freedom, Determinism, and Causality
A Menu of Positions on Free Will
Compatibilism
Psychological Egoism
Readings
Other Minds Are Known by Analogy from One's Own Case
Mental Processes Are Physical
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Of Liberty and Necessity
Has the Self “Free Will?”
Determinism Rules out Freedom
Ethics
Lectures
Ethics—Normative and Meta
The Is/Ought Gap and the Naturalistic Fallacy
Observation and Explanation in Ethics
Conventionalist Theories
Utilitarianism
Kant's Moral Theory
Aristotle on the Good Life
Readings
Critique of the Divine Command Theory
Existentialism
Defense of Utilitarianism
Ethics Founded on Reason
Morality and Human Nature
Suggestions for Further Reading
Glossary
Index