Introduction to Philosophical Analysis

Name: Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
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ISBN: 9780132663052

ISBN-10: 0132663058

ISBN-13: 9780132663052

Edition: 4th 1997

Authors: John Hospers

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Appropriate for introductory courses in Philosophy. This text provides an in-depth, problem-oriented introduction to philosophical analysis using an extremely clear, readable approach. The Fourth Edition only updates coverage throughout the book, but also restores the introductory chapterWords and the Worldthe most distinguished, widely acclaimed feature of the first two editions.

Book details

List price: $133.32
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/4/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




Words and the World: Language and Reality


Philosophical Questions


Words and Things


Definition


Vagueness


Connotation


Ostensive Definition


Meaninglessness



What Can We Know? Knowledge


What is Knowing?


The Sources of Knowledge


Exercises



What Is the World Like? Perceiving the World


Common-Sense Realism


Berkeley's Idealism


The Attack on Foundations


Exercises



The Way the World Works: Scientific Knowledge


Laws of Nature


Explanation


Theories


Possibility


The Problem of Induction


Exercises



What Is and What Must Be: Freedom and Necessity


Mathematics


Kant and the Synthetic Apriori


Causality


Determinism and Freedom


Exercises



What Am I? Mind and Body


The Physical and the Mental


The Relation Between the Physical and the Mental


Personal Identity


Exercises



What Else Is There? Philosophy of Religion


Religious Experience


The Ongological Argument


The Cosmological Argument


The Argument from Miracles


The Teleological Argument (The Argument from Design)


Anthropomorphism and Mysticism


Exercises



The Is and the Ought: Problems in Ethics


Meta-ethics


The Good


Theories of Conduct


Exercises