Core Questions in Philosophy

9. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-79426-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sober, Elliott

Velasco, Joel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction  1. What Is Philosophy?  2. Deductive Arguments  3. Inductive and Abductive Arguments  Part II: Philosophy of Religion  4. Aquinas’s First Four Ways  5. The Design Argument  6. Evolution and Creationism  7. Can Science Explain Everything?  8. The Ontological Argument  9. Is the Existence of God Testable?  10. Pascal and Irrationality  11. The Argument from Evil  Part III: Theory of Knowledge  12. What Is Knowledge?  13. Descartes’ Foundationalism  14. The Reliability Theory of Knowledge  15. Justified Belief and Hume’s Problem of Induction  16. Can Hume’s Skepticism Be Refuted?  17. Beyond Foundationalism  18. Locke on the Existence of External Objects  19. Probability and Bayes’s Theorem  Part IV: Philosophy of Mind  20. Dualism and the Mind/Body Problem  21. Logical Behaviorism  22. Methodological Behaviorism  23. The Mind/Brain Identity Theory  24. Functionalism  25. Freedom, Determinism, and Causality  26. A Menu of Positions on Free Will  27. Compatibilism  28. Psychological Egoism  Part V: Ethics  29. Ethics—Normative and Meta  30. The Is/Ought Gap and the Naturalistic Fallacy  31. Observation and Explanation in Ethics  32. Conventionalist Theories  33. Utilitarianism  34. Kant’s Moral Theory  35. Aristotle on the Good Life  36. The Meaning of Life

Über Autor(innen)

Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His most recent book is The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory (2024).

Joel Velasco is Department Chair and Professor in Philosophy at Texas Tech University. He specializes in the philosophy of biology as well as more general philosophy of science.