Core Questions in Philosophy A Text with Readings

Name: Core Questions in Philosophy A Text with Readings
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ISBN: 9780131898691

ISBN-10: 0131898698

ISBN-13: 9780131898691

Edition: 4th 2005

Authors: Elliott Sober

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List price: $96.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.848
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.



Introduction to Probability -- Bayes Theorem


Readings


Knowledge Is Something More than True Belief, Plato


Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes


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