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Bruce Michael |
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Just the Arguments [[electronic resource] ] : 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy |
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1-283-25836-6 |
9786613258366 |
1-4443-4443-9 |
1-4443-4440-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (425 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Philosophy |
Philosophy -- Introductions |
Philosophy & Religion |
Speculative Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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JUST THE ARGUMENTS: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Show Me the Arguments; Part I: Philosophy of Religion; 1: Aquinas' Five Ways; 2: The Contingency Cosmological Argument; 3: The Kalam Argument for the Existence of God; 4: The Ontological Argument; 5: Pascal's Wager; 6: James' Will to Believe Argument; 7: The Problem of Evil; 8: The Free Will Defense to the Problem of Evil; 9: St. Anselm on Free Choice and the Power to Sin; 10: Hume's Argument against Miracles; 11: The Euthyphro Dilemma; 12: Nietzsche's Death of God |
13: Ockham's RazorPart II: Metaphysics; 14: Parmenides' Refutation of Change; 15: McTaggart's Argument against the Reality of Time; 16: Berkeley's Master Argument for Idealism; 17: Kant's Refutation of Idealism; 18: The Master Argument of Diodorus Cronus; 19: Lewis' Argument for Possible Worlds; 20: A Reductionist Account of Personal Identity; 21: Split-Case Arguments about Personal Identity; 22: The Ship of Theseus; 23: The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics; 24: A |
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Modern Modal Argument for the Soul; 25: Two Arguments for the Harmlessness of Death; Epicurus' Death is Nothing to Us Argument |
Lucretius' Symmetry Argument26: The Existence of Forms: Plato's Argument from the Possibility of Knowledge; 27: Plato, Aristotle, and the Third Man Argument; 28: Logical Monism; 29: The Maximality Paradox; 30: An Argument for Free Will; 31: Frankfurt's Refutation of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities; 32: Van Inwagen's Consequence Argument against Compatibilism; 33: Fatalism; 34: Sartre's Argument for Freedom; Part III: Epistemology; 35: The Cogito Arguments of Descartes and Augustine; Descartes' Cogito; Augustine's "Si fallor, sum" Argument (If I Am Mistaken, I Exist) |
36: The Cartesian Dreaming Argument for External-World Skepticism37: The Transparency of Experience Argument; 38: The Regress Argument for Skepticism; 39: Moore's Anti-Skeptical Arguments; 40: The Bias Paradox; 41: Gettier's Argument against the Traditional Account of Knowledge; 42: Putnam's Argument against Cultural Imperialism; 43: Davidson on the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme; 44: Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism; 45: Hume and the Problem of Induction; Hume's Problem of Induction; Hume's Negative Argument concerning Induction; 46: Argument by Analogy in Thales and Anaximenes |
47: Quine's Epistemology Naturalized48: Sellars and the Myth of the Given; 49: Sellars' "Rylean Myth"; 50: Aristotle and the Argument to End All Arguments; Part IV: Ethics; 51: Justice Brings Happiness in Plato's Republic; 52: Aristotle's Function Argument; 53: Aristotle's Argument that Goods Are Irreducible; 54: Aristotle's Argument for Perfectionism; 55: Categorical Imperative as the Source for Morality; 56: Kant on Why Autonomy Deserves Respect; 57: Mill's Proof of Utilitarianism; 58: The Experience Machine Objection to Hedonism; 59: The Error Theory Argument |
60: Moore's Open Question Argument |
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Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with premises, conclusions and logical form plainly identified. Key quotations provide a sense of style and approach. Just the Arguments is an invaluable one-stop argument shop. A concise, formally structured summation of 100 of the most important argum |
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