The Philosopher's Tool Kit

Steven Scott Aspenson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

1997
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7656-0217-6 (ISBN)

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A concise introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the conceptual tools necessary to understand, analyze, criticize, and construct arguments: as well as to the philosophical mainstays of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical analysis.

Steven Scott Aspenson

Part 1 Categories, Classification and Definition: Categories; Classification; Definition; Essential Terms of Metaphysics. Part 2 Assessing Claims: Necessary Truths - Analytic Truths, Logical Truths, Necessary-Synthetic Truths; Contingent Truths - Synthetic Truths, Truths of Natural Law; Essential Terms of Epistemology. Part 3 Assessing Inferences: Deductive Inferences - Analytic, Logical/Categorical, Necessary-Synthetic Transcendental, Completely Enumerative; Inductive Inferences - Relative Frequency, Sui-Generis Making-Probable Relation, Incompletely Enumerative, Causal/Lawful Regularity; Abductive Inference; Essential Terms of Epistemology. Part 4 Philosophical Analysis: Kinds of Analysis - Same and New-Level Analysis; Tools of Analysis - the Negative Way, Abstraction and Precision, Distinction and Principled Distinction Thought-Experiments; Essential Terms of Philosophical Analysis. Part 5 Philosophical Writing: Criticize, Understand, Then Write; Be Negative at First; Identify Philosophical Commitments of Your View; Distinguo! Using Latin and Special Terms; Special Terms for Writing Philosophy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.4.1998
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	0-7656-0217-2 / 0765602172
ISBN-13	978-0-7656-0217-6 / 9780765602176
Zustand	Neuware