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Confused by metaphysics? In a muddle with aesthetics? Intimidated by Kant? Then look no further! Philosophy For Dummies, UK Edition is a complete crash-course in philosophical thought, covering key philosophers, philosophical history and theory and the big questions that affect us today. Tying in with standard UK curricula and including core topics such as logic, ethics and political philosophy, this impartial, expert guide cuts through the jargon to give you the facts.
Whether you're a philosophy student or a complete beginner, Philosophy For Dummies, UK Edition will get you thinking and talking about philosophy in no time, and with maximum confidence. Philosophy For Dummies, UK Edition includes: Part I: What is Philosophy?Chapter 1: What's Philosophy All About?Chapter 2: Why is it important?Chapter 3: Becoming a philosophical thinker Part II: The History of PhilosophyChapter 4: Moving from Ancient History to the Present DayChapter 5: Looking at Eastern PhilosophyChapter 6: Understanding the Isms' Part III: Looking at PerceptionChapter 7: Understanding LogicChapter 8: Understanding KnowledgeChapter 9: Looking at Illusion and CertaintyChapter 10: Interpreting Language Part IV: The Mind, Consciousness and MoralityChapter 11: Does God Exist?Chapter 12: Looking at Ethics and MoralityChapter 13: Political PhilosophyChapter 14: Seeing How Society WorksChapter 15: Aesthetics and Human Values Part V: Philosophy and ScienceChapter 16: What the Ancients Thought About ScienceChapter 17: Meeting Some Enlightened ThinkersChapter 18: Scientific Truth and Scientific FashionsChapter 19: Eastern Philosophy and Modern Physics Part VI: The Part of TensChapter 20: Ten Important Philosophical Works - and What They SaidChapter 21: Ten Questions to Keep You Thinking.
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- Höfundur: Martin Cohen
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2012-01-17
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- Format:Page Fidelity
- ISBN 13: 9780470711453
- Print ISBN: 9780470688205
- ISBN 10: 0470711450
Efnisyfirlit
- About the Author
- Author’s Acknowledgments
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- What You’re Not to Read
- Foolish Assumptions
- How This Book Is Organised
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part I: What Is Philosophy?
- Chapter 1: What’s Philosophy All About?
- Defining the Job
- Loving Wisdom
- Deciding What Counts as ‘Real’ Knowledge
- Crunching Up Three Types of Knowing
- Exploring the Physical World Around You
- Chapter 2: Discovering Why Philosophy Matters
- Laying the Foundations for Science
- Getting to Know the Physical World
- Inventing Systems and Logic
- Doubting Everything You Don’t Know
- Chapter 3: Becoming a Philosophical Thinker
- Having a Philosophical Conversation
- Peeking Inside the Philosopher’s Mind
- Chapter 1: What’s Philosophy All About?
- Chapter 4: Looking at Ancient Philosophies
- Laying the Groundwork with the First Greek Philosophers
- Plating Up Plato (and Serving Up Socrates)
- Arguing with Aristotle
- Chapter 5: Moving from the Dark Ages to the Modern Day
- Proving God’s Existence in Medieval Europe
- Trying to Do Without God
- Thinking Like Machines
- Pushing Aside Philosophy with Mathematics
- Chapter 6: Looking at Eastern Philosophy
- Contemplating the Mysterious Tao
- Honouring Confucius
- Debating with Buddha
- Accepting suffering: Hinduism
- Chapter 7: Understanding the ‘Isms’
- What’s an Ism?
- Choosing between Empiricism and Idealism
- Trying to Pinpoint Idealism
- Applying Utilitarianism
- Letting Everything Hang Out with Relativism
- Rejecting Emotion with Stoicism
- Doubting with the Sceptics
- Avoiding Dangerous ‘Isms’
- Chapter 8: Seeing the Limits of Logic
- Understanding What Logic Really Is
- Appreciating the Things Aristotle Got Right
- Fixing the Things Aristotle Got Wrong
- Spotting Fallacies
- Examining Meaningless Statements
- Chapter 9: Understanding Knowledge
- Laying the Foundations of Knowledge
- Decoding Empiricism and Rationalism
- Deducing Impressive Truths with Descartes
- Chapter 10: Separating Fact from Fiction
- How Do You Know You’re Not Dreaming Right Now?
- Doubting Everything with Descartes
- Remembering the Role of Memory
- What Happens When the Brain Goes Wrong?
- Chapter 11: Interpreting Language
- Deconstructing Language
- Conducting Philosophical Investigations with Wittgenstein
- Poking at Colour Terms with Pinker
- Investigating the Causes of Fires with Benjamin Whorf
- Finding Linguistic Relativity Amongst the Hopi Indians
- Having Another Go at Deconstructing Language with Derrida
- Chapter 12: Exploring the Strange Notion of Mind
- Getting to Grips with Philosophy of Mind
- Probing the Pesky Problem of Other Minds
- Exploring Existentialism with Ryle’s Ghost in the Machine
- Discovering the Will to Philosophise
- Chapter 13: Looking at Ethics and Morality
- What Would God Do?
- Pinning Down the Difference Between Right and Wrong
- Understanding Key Ethical Theories
- Applying Ethics to Hard Cases
- Chapter 14: Political Philosophy
- Meeting the Great Political Philosophers
- Choosing Between Authority and Anarchy: Plato
- Saluting Hegel and Totalitarianism
- Fearing Hitler and the Bewitching Effects of Propaganda
- Marching for Marxism
- Signing Up to the Social Contract
- Applying Machiavelli’s Social Glue
- Chapter 15: Looking Out for Liberty
- Praising Liberty: The American Declaration of Independence
- Profiting from the Slave Trade with John Locke
- Taking the Democratic Turn with J. S. Mill
- Voting for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wealth
- Searching for Equality of Outcome or of Opportunity
- Chapter 16: Aesthetics and Human Values
- So, Just What Is Art?
- Arguing about Art and Intentions
- Appreciating the Aesthetic Sense
- Considering Aesthetics, Art and Beauty
- Choosing between Banned and Approved Art
- Getting Back to Nature
- Chapter 17: From Ancient Science to Modern Philosophy
- Theorising on Everything With Early Greek Philosophers
- Carving Up the World with Natural Philosophers
- Chapter 18: Investigating the Science of Society
- Understanding the Science of Society
- Keeping Positive with Comte
- Socialising with Durkheim
- Being Bureaucratic with Weber
- Treating People as Economic Entities
- Chapter 19: Exploring Scientific Truth and Scientific Fashions
- Setting the Scene: Reason and Science
- Causing Science Problems with the Problem of Causation
- Letting Black Swans Destroy Favoured Theories
- Shifting Paradigms and Causing Scientific Revolutions
- Comparing Quantum Mechanics to Common-or-Garden Mechanics
- Chapter 20: Ten Famous Philosophical Books — and What They Say
- The Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant
- The Republic, by Plato
- Fear and Trembling, by Søren Kierkegaard
- Ethics, by Baruch Spinoza
- Discourse on Method, by René Descartes
- A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
- Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
- Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, by George Berkeley
- Ethics, by Aristotle
- Existentialism and Humanism, by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Chapter 21: Ten Philosophical Puzzles to Keep You Thinking
- Probing Protagoras’s Problem
- Playing in the Sandpit with the Sorites Problem
- Identifying Locke’s Sock
- Knowing Your Own Mind with Swampy Things
- Losing Your Marbles with Professor Davidson
- Squabbling over the Plank of Carneades
- Giving Up Reality with the X-perience Machine
- Jumping Up for the Cosmos
- Worrying about What Happens After the Sun Goes Out
- Getting Relativity in Einstein’s Elevator
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