LooseLeaf Does the Center Hold? An Introduction to Western Philosophy
McGraw-Hill Education (Verlag)
978-1-259-90795-1 (ISBN)
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Does the Center Hold? is an entertaining, topically-organized introductory program with more than 500 original illustrations. The ideas and issues typically covered in introductory philosophy courses are presented here in a remarkably accessible and enjoyable manner. Donald Palmer demonstrates that serious philosophical inquiry may be perplexing, but is ultimately liberating, and students will come away from the book with a comprehensive, and often delighted, understanding of philosophy. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessments.
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Donald Palmer received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of California Berkeley and his Doctorate of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. He has published a number of philosophy books, including Looking at Philosophy, Does the Center Hold?, Why Its Hard to Be Good, and, more popularly, Kierkegaard for Beginners, Sartre for Beginners, and Structuralism and Post-Structuralism for Beginners. He has recently completed a manuscript on Don Quixote titled Philosophy and Madness in La Mancha. He taught for many years at the College of Marin in California and finished his teaching career at North Carolina State University. He and his wife divide their time among North Carolina, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Lot Valley in Southwestern France.
1 What Are We Doing in This Class?Is Philosophy Possible? The Origins of PhilosophyContemporary Branches of PhilosophyEpistemologyOntologyEthicsPolitical and Social Philosophy AestheticsLogic Contemporary Styles of PhilosophyThe Philosophy of Socrates ConclusionTopics for ConsiderationSuggestions for Further Reading: Paperback EditionsNotes2 Truth Is Beauty; Beauty Is TruthRationalist Epistemology The Philosophy of Plato ImagesSensible ObjectsConceptsFormsRené Descartes’s RationalismTopics for ConsiderationSuggestions for Further Reading: Paperback EditionsNotes3 What You See Is What You GetEmpiricist EpistemologyThe Empiricism of John Locke Simple and Complex IdeasPrimary and Secondary QualitiesSubstanceBerkeley’s Correction of Locke Sense DataThe Source of Sense DataHume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s EmpiricismLogical Positivism: The Further Radicalization of EmpiricismAttacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense DataAttacks on Logical Positivism’s Language Kant’s Compromise Conclusion: Getting Up-to-DateQuine’s ContributionRationalism in the Twenty-First CenturyTopics for ConsiderationSuggestions for Further Reading: Paperback EditionsNotes4 Who’s on First; What’s on Second?Ontology DualismMaterialistic MonismMaterialism BehaviorismThe Mind-Brain Identity TheoryEliminative Materialism Functionalism and Its DiscontentsPluralism ConclusionTopics for ConsiderationSuggestions for Further Reading: Paperback EditionsNotes5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion Theism The Ontological ArgumentThe Cosmological ArgumentHume’s Criticism of the Cosmological Proof The Teleological ArgumentDarwin’s and Hume’s Criticisms of the Teleological Proof Atheism Feuerbach’s “Religion of Man”Marx’s Response to FeuerbachSigmund Freud: The Psychoanalysis of ReligionVolitional Justifications of Religious BeliefReligious MysticismReligious ExistentialismConclusionTopics for ConsiderationSuggestions for Further Reading: Paperback EditionsNotes 2086 The Largest Airline in the Free WorldPhilosophy of Freedom Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment ViewsHard Determinism: Modern ViewsB. F. SkinnerSigmund FreudThe Attack on Free WillSoft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism)Indeterminism LibertarianismExistential Freedom Perverse FreedomConclusionTopics for ConsiderationSuggestions for Further Reading: Paperback EditionsNotes7 Thou Shalt Become PerfectedEthics Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers Justice/MoralityCity/SoulEgoismUtilitarianismThe Calculus of FelicityThe Quality of Pleasure Utilitarianism’s Problems Duty-Oriented Morality: Immanuel KantKant’s Strengths and WeaknessesKant’s Third FormulationKantianism Today?ContractualismVirtue Ethics ConclusionTopics for ConsiderationSuggestions for Further Reading: Paperback EditionsNotes8 Different Strokes for Different FolksCritiques of Traditional Ethical Theories ExistentialismHume and the Naturalistic Fallacy Logical PositivismCultural RelativismNo Universally Held Moral Values No Value or Set of Values Recommendable for All People Ethics and FeminismEthics and Deep EcologyConclusionTopics for ConsiderationSuggestions for Further Reading: Paperback EditionsNotes9 Let Them Eat CakePolitical and Social Philosophy Political PhilosophyPlato 327Thomas HobbesJohn LockeJean-Jacques RousseauJohn Stuart Mill Social PhilosophyCommunismThe Minimal State Liberalism ConclusionTopics for ConsiderationSuggestions for Further Reading: Paperback EditionsNotes10 But Is It Art?Philosophy of ArtAnalytic Philosophy of ArtAnalysis of ExpressionismAnalysis of FormalismAnalysis of the Aesthetic Experience Analysis of Conventionalism Analysis of RealismWittgenstein Open ConceptsA Form of Life: The ArtworldPlato, Freud, and ArtAristotle and ArtMarx and ArtExistentialism and ArtConclusionTopics for ConsiderationSuggestions for Further Reading: Paperback EditionsNotesGlossary Credits Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.01.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | OH |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 183 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 619 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-259-90795-3 / 1259907953 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-259-90795-1 / 9781259907951 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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