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Philosophical problems and arguments : an introduction
- Title
- Philosophical problems and arguments : an introduction / James W. Cornman, Keith Lehrer, George S. Pappas.
- Author
- Cornman, James W.
- Publication
- Indianapolis : Hackett, ©1992.
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- Description
- xviii, 372 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Introductions.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- The content and methods of philosophy -- What is philosophy? -- The tools of the trade -- Deductive logic -- Modality -- Meaning -- The A priori and the empirical -- Induction -- About Skepticism -- Skepticism with regard to the senses -- Modified skeptical argument -- New knowledge as undefeated justification: a revisionist alternative to the skeptic and epistemist -- The problem of freedom and determinism -- The determinist position -- The Libertarian position -- The Compatibilist position -- The incompatibilist position -- Final compatibilist argument: evidence for freedom reconsidered -- The Mind-body problem -- Dualistic interactionism -- Parallelism -- Epiphenomenalism -- Idealism -- Materialism -- Eliminative materialism -- Reductive materialism: the type-type identity theory -- Functionalism -- The problem of justifying belief in God -- Examination of the concept of a supreme being -- Appeal to experience of God -- Three A posteriori arguments -- An A priori argument -- Evil as evidence against the existence of God -- The problem of justifying an ethical standard -- Ethical relativism -- Ethical Nihilism -- The "no-standard" theory -- Ethical skepticism -- Egoistic Hedonism -- Nonhedonistic ethical egoism -- Utilitarianism: Bentham's version -- Utilitarianism: Mill;s version -- Deontological ethics: Kant's theory -- Rule utilitarianism -- Six requirements for a satisfactory ethical standard -- A proposal for a satisfactory standard: a utilitarian Kantian principle.
- ISBN
- 0872201252
- 9780872201255
- 0872201244
- 9780872201248
- LCCN
- 91021663
- OCLC
- ocm23901033
- 23901033
- SCSB-9573353
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library