Philosopher's Toolkit A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

Name: Philosopher's Toolkit A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods
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ISBN: 9781405190183

ISBN-10: 1405190183

ISBN-13: 9781405190183

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl

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List price: $14.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 4/9/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Alphabetical Table of Contents


Preface


Acknowledgements



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



More Advanced Tools



Abduction



Hypothetico-deductive method



Dialectic



Analogies



Anomalies and exceptions that prove the rule



Intuition pumps



Logical constructions



Reduction



Thought experiments



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



False cause



Genetic fallacy



Horned dilemmas



Is/ought gap



Masked man fallacy



Partners in guilt



Principle of charity



Question-begging



Reductios



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



De re/de dicto



Defeasible/indefeasible



Entailment/implication



Essence/accident



Internalism/externalism



Knowledge by acquaintance/description



Necessary/contingent



Necessary/sufficient



Objective/subjective



Realist/non-realist



Sense/reference



Syntax/semantics



Thick/thin concepts



Types/tokens



Tools of Historical Schools and Philosophers



Aphorism, fragment, remark



Categories and specific differences



Elenchus and aporia



Hume's fork



Indirect discourse



Leibniz's law of identity



Ockham's razor



Phenomenological method(s)



Signs and signifiers



Transcendental argument



Tools for Radical Critique



Class critique



Deconstruction and the critique of presence



Empiricist critique of metaphysics



Feminist critique



Foucaultion critique of power



Heideggerian critique of metaphysics



Lacanian critique



Critiques of naturalism



Nietzschean critique of Christian-Platonic culture



Pragmatist critique



Sartrean critique of 'bad faith'



Tools at the Limit



Basic beliefs



Gï¿½del and incompleteness



Philosophy and/as art



Mystical experience and revelation



Paradoxes



Possibility and impossibility



Primitives



Self-evident truths



Scepticism



Underdetermination


Internet Resources for Philosophers


Index