Introduction to Philosophy Reader

by Noah Levin

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Publisher
Golden West College
Subjects
Humanities, Philosophy
Licence
CC BY, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Knowledge and Skepticism
  7. 1.1: Introduction to Philosophy and Arguments
  8. 1.2: A Lesson in Thinking - The Trolley Problem
  9. 1.3: Theaetetus
  10. 1.4: The Republic, Book VII - The Allegory of the Cave
  11. 1.5: Descartes’ Meditations - Doubt
  12. 1.6: Hume’s “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”- Skepticism
  13. 2: Personal Identity and the Mind-Body Problem
  14. 2.1: Hoops of Steel
  15. 2.2: The Devil Himself
  16. 2.3: Removing “identity” from “persons”- Derek Parfit
  17. 2.4: The Ship of Theseus
  18. 2.5: This Above All
  19. 2.6: Descartes’ Meditations - Cartesian Dualism
  20. 3: Philosophy of Religion
  21. 3.1: Science and Theology
  22. 3.2: Pascal’s Wager
  23. 3.3: Anselm’s Ontological Argument and Gaunilo’s Lost Island
  24. 3.4: Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument
  25. 3.5: Paley’s Watchmaker Argument
  26. 3.6: Hume and “The Problem of Evil”
  27. 4: Free Will, Determinism, and Responsibility
  28. 4.1: The Turing Test
  29. 4.2: Determinism
  30. 4.3: The Illusion of Free Will
  31. 4.4: Compatibilism
  32. 4.5: The Prisoner’s Dilemma
  33. 4.6: The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
  34. 5: Ethics
  35. Front Matter
  36. TitlePage
  37. InfoPage
  38. 5.1: The Myth of Gyges
  39. 5.2: The Euthyphro Dilemma
  40. 5.3: Utilitarianism
  41. 5.4: The Categorical Imperative
  42. 5.5: Beyond Good and Evil
  43. 5.6: Virtue Ethics
  44. Back Matter
  45. Index
  46. Back Matter
  47. Index
  48. Glossary
  49. Detailed Licensing
  50. Detailed Licensing