50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know 9781623651893, 1623651891

Have you ever laid awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world' Perhaps we

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English Year 2007;2013

50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know
9781623651893, 1623651891

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Table of contents :
The brain in a vat --
Plato's cave --
The veil of perception --
Cogito ergo sum --
Reason and experience --
The tripartite theory of knowledge --
The mind-body problem --
What is it like to be a bat? --
The Turing test --
The ship of Theseus --
Other minds --
Hume's guillotine --
One man's meat ... --
The divine command theory --
The boo/hoorah theory --
Ends and means --
The experience machine --
The categorical imperative --
The golden rule --
Acts and omissions --
Slippery slopes --
Beyond the call of duty --
Is it bad to be unlucky? --
Virtue ethics --
Do animals feel pain? --
Do animals have rights? --
Forms of argument --
The barber paradox --
The gambler's fallacy --
The sorites paradox --
The king of France is bald --
The beetle in the box --
Science and pseudoscience --
Paradigm shifts --
Occam's razor --
What is art? --
The intentional fallacy --
The argument from design --
The cosmological argument --
The ontological argument --
The problem of evil --
The freewill defence --
Faith and reason --
Positive and negative freedom --
The difference principle --
Leviathan --
The prisoner's dilemma --
Theories of punishment --
Lifeboat Earth --
Just war.

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