Philosophers Toolkit A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

Name: Philosophers Toolkit A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods
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ISBN: 9780631228745

ISBN-10: 0631228748

ISBN-13: 9780631228745

Edition: 2002

Authors: Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl

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The Philosopher's Toolkit provides all the intellectual equipment necessary to engage with and participate in philosophical argument, reading and reflection. Each of its 87 entries explains how to use an important concept or argumentative technique accurately and effectively.Beginning with the basics of argumentation, the book moves on to deal with tools for assessment and criticism, as well as the limits of argumentation and some of the radical critiques of standard philosophical methodology. Written in an engaging style, the entries are brought to life with vivid and colourful examples and are accompanied by suggestions for further reading. This ingenious compendium of the methods and…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.06" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English




Basic Tools for Argument



Arguments, Premises and Conclusions



Deduction



Induction



Validity and Soundness



Invalidity



Consistency



Fallacies



Refutation



Axioms



Definitions



Certainty and Probability



Tautologies, Self-Contradictions and the Law of Non-Contradiction



Further Tools for Argument



Abduction



Hypothetico-Deductive Method



Dialectic



Analogies



Anomalies and Exceptions that Prove the Rule



Intuition Pumps



Logical Constructions



Reduction



Thought Experiments



Transcendental Arguments



Useful Fictions



Tools for Assessment



Alternative Explanations



Ambiguity



Bivalence and the Excluded Middle



Category Mistakes



Ceteris Paribus



Circularity



Conceptual Incoherence



Counterexamples



Criteria



Error Theory



False Dichotomy



Genetic Fallacy



Horned Dilemmas



Hume's Fork



Is/ought Gap



Leibniz's Law of Identity



Masked Man Fallacy



Ockham's Razor



Paradoxes



Partners in Guilt



Principles of Charity



Question-Begging



Reductions



Redundancy



Regresses



Saving the Phenomena



Self-defeating Arguments



Sufficient Reason



Testability



Tools for Conceptual Distinctions



A Priori/A Posteriori



Absolute/Relative



Analytic/Synthetic



Categorical/Modal



Conditional/Biconditional



Defeasible/Indefeasible



Entailment/Implication



Essence/Accident



Knowledge by Acquaintance/Description



Necessary/Contingent



Necessary/Sufficient



Objective/Subjective



Realist/Non-Realist



Sense/Reference



Syntax/Semantics



Thick/Thin Concepts



Types/Tokens



Tools for Radical Critique



Class Critique



Deconstruction and the Critique of Presence



Empiricist Critique of Metaphysics



Feminist Critiques



Foucaultian Critique of Power



Heideggerian Critique of Metaphysics



Lacanian Critique



Nietzschean Critique of Christian-Platonic Culture



Pragmatist Critique



Sartrean Critique of 'Bad Faith'



Tools at the Limit



Basic Beliefs



G;del and Incompleteness



Mystical Experience and Revelation



Possibility and Impossibility



Primitives



Self-evident Truths



Scepticism



Underdetermination


Appendix: Web Resources.