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Engaging philosophy, a brief introduction, Mitchell S. Green

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Engaging philosophy, a brief introduction, Mitchell S. Green

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Engaging philosophy

Nature of contents

bibliography

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61463618

Responsibility statement

Mitchell S. Green

Sub title

a brief introduction

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Reasoning: truth and prudence -- Grounds for belief -- What is an argument? -- Fallacies of theoretical rationality -- What is practical reasoning? -- Fallacies of practical rationality -- The greatest conceivable being -- Theological arguments -- Atheological arguments -- Right and wrong -- Ethical egoism -- Utilitarianism -- Critiques of utilitarianism -- Intermission : moral relativism -- Kantian ethics -- The matter of minds -- Plato's tripartite soul -- Descartes' division -- La Mettrie and machines -- Ryle and the category mistake -- The identity theory -- Minds as computers -- Consciousness -- Are you free? -- Universal determinism and its challenge to freedom -- Does quantum mechanics save freedom? -- Hume's compatibilism -- Libertarian critiques of Hume -- Hard determinism and the illusion of freedom -- Is conscious will an illusion? -- Freedom of will -- What is a person? -- Synnchronic and diachronic questions of identity -- Synchronic identity -- Memory links and identity over time -- Bodily continuity and identity over time

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