An Introduction To Philosophy
Nelson Canada (Verlag)
978-0-17-644257-6 (ISBN)
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Ohreen’s An Introduction to Philosophy is a one-semester anthology intended to bring the relevance of philosophical issues to light for students in interesting and important ways.
Reading original philosophical work can be arduous for the beginner student. An Introduction to Philosophy provides historical and contemporary readings that are easy to understand and of high philosophical quality. The articles have been edited to ensure students get the most salient philosophical ideas without having to read superfluous details.
Each chapter starts with a comprehensive introduction or commentary on the readings, setting out the main philosophical themes and concepts. The text is intentionally structured to give students contrasting and critical views regarding knowledge, god, mind, and morality.
In this ground-up Canadian text, students receive a unique set of readings focusing on five core issues in philosophy: What is the value of philosophy? Does God exist? What can we know? How does the mind relate to the body? And, what is morally right and wrong?
The readings have been selected to focus on philosophical depth, not breadth, regarding these issues. Canadian context has been included where appropriate. Moreover, the total number and size of readings has been reduced, in comparison to other texts, to maximize text usage for students.
An Introduction to Philosophy has been developed to get students thinking, philosophically, about the world in which they live.
David Ohreen is a sessional instructor of philosophy at Mount Royal University in Calgary. He received his PhD from the University of Wales.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Value of Philosophy the Purpose of Philosophy
Plato - The Apology (selection)
Bertrand Russell - The Value of Philosophy
Chapter 2: Ways of Knowing Scepticism and Rationalism
René Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy (First and Second Mediations)
Empiricism
John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding (selection)
George Berkeley - A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Understanding (selection)
David Hume - Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding (selection)
On Certainty
Georg Hendrik von Wright - Wittgenstein on Certainty
Feminist Epistemology
Lorraine Code - Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant?
Chapter 3: The Existence of God The Ontological Argument
St. Anselm - Proslogium (selection)
Yaeger Hudson - Problems and Possibilities for the Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologiae (selection)
Theodore Schick Jr. - The “Big Bang” Argument for the Existence of God.
The Teleological (Design) Argument
William Paley - Natural Theology (selection)
David Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (selection)
Richard Dawkins - The Improbability of God
The Problem of Evil
William Rowe - The Problem of Evil
Belief and Faith
Simon Blackburn - Infini—Rien
Natalie Angier - Im No Believer
Chapter 4: The Mind/Body Problem Dualism
René Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy (Sixth Mediation)
Patricia Churchland - Substance Dualism
Identity Theory
William Lyons - Nothing but the Brain
Functionalism
Jerry Fodor - Materialism
John Searle - Can Computers Think?
Eliminative Materialism
Paul Churchland - Eliminative Materialism
Chapter 5: Morality: Searching for Right and Wrong God and Morality
Plato - Euthyphro
Ethical Relativism
James Rachels - The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism (selection)
Richard Brandt - Moral Obligation and General Welfare
Deontological Ethics
Immanuel Kant - Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (selection)
Joshua Glasgow - Kants Principle of Universal Law
Feminist Ethics
Alison Jaggar - Feminist Ethics
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.3.2008 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Andover |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 885 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-17-644257-X / 017644257X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-17-644257-6 / 9780176442576 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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