Engaging philosophy : Mitchell S. Green.
by Green, Mitchell S.
Published by : Hackett Pub. Co., (Indianapolis, IN :) Physical details: xi, 164 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN:0872207978 (cloth : alk. paper); 087220796X (pbk. : alk. paper). Year: 2006| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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ცენტრალური ბიბლიოთეკა ჰუმანიტარული დარ. / Humanitarian hall | 1 / 134 (Browse shelf) | K - 12518 | Available |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Reasoning: truth and prudence -- Grounds for belief -- What is an argument? -- Fallacies of theoretical rationality -- What is practical reasoning? -- Fallacies of practical rationality -- The greatest conceivable being -- Theological arguments -- Atheological arguments -- Right and wrong -- Ethical egoism -- Utilitarianism -- Critiques of utilitarianism -- Intermission : moral relativism -- Kantian ethics -- The matter of minds -- Plato's tripartite soul -- Descartes' division -- La Mettrie and machines -- Ryle and the category mistake -- The identity theory -- Minds as computers -- Consciousness -- Are you free? -- Universal determinism and its challenge to freedom -- Does quantum mechanics save freedom? -- Hume's compatibilism -- Libertarian critiques of Hume -- Hard determinism and the illusion of freedom -- Is conscious will an illusion? -- Freedom of will -- What is a person? -- Synnchronic and diachronic questions of identity -- Synchronic identity -- Memory links and identity over time -- Bodily continuity and identity over time.
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