A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods [3 ed.] 9781119103219, 1119103215

Table of contents :
Table of Contents
Cover
Acknowledgements
Alphabetical Table of Contents
Preface
1 Basic Tools for Argument
1.1 Arguments, premises, and conclusions
1.2 Deduction
1.3 Induction
1.4 Validity and soundness
1.5 Invalidity
1.6 Consistency
1.7 Fallacies
1.8 Refutation
1.9 Axioms
1.10 Definitions
1.11 Certainty and probability
1.12 Tautologies, self‐contradictions, and the law of non‐contradiction
2 More Advanced Tools
2.1 Abduction
2.2 Hypothetico‐deductive method
2.3 Dialectic
2.4 Analogies
2.5 Anomalies and exceptions that prove the rule
2.6 Intuition pumps
2.7 Logical constructions
2.8 Performativity and speech acts
2.9 Reduction
2.10 Representation
2.11 Thought experiments
2.12 Useful fictions
3 Tools for Assessment
3.1 Affirming, denying, and conditionals
3.2 Alternative explanations
3.3 Ambiguity and vagueness
3.4 Bivalence and the excluded middle
3.5 Category mistakes
3.6 Ceteris paribus
3.7 Circularity
3.8 Composition and division
3.9 Conceptual incoherence
3.10 Contradiction/contrariety
3.11 Conversion, contraposition, obversion
3.12 Counterexamples
3.13 Criteria
3.14 Doxa/para‐doxa
3.15 Error theory
3.16 False dichotomy
3.17 False cause
3.18 Genetic fallacy
3.19 Horned dilemmas
3.20 Is/ought gap
3.21 Masked man fallacy
3.22 Partners in guilt
3.23 Principle of charity
3.24 Question‐begging
3.25 Reductios
3.26 Redundancy
3.27 Regresses
3.28 Saving the phenomena
3.29 Self‐defeating arguments
3.30 Sufficient reason
3.31 Testability
4 Tools for Conceptual Distinctions
4.1 A priori/a posteriori
4.2 Absolute/relative
4.3 Analytic/synthetic
4.4 Belief/knowledge
4.5 Categorical/modal
4.6 Cause/reason
4.7 Conditional/biconditional
4.8 De re/de dicto
4.9 Defeasible/indefeasible
4.10 Entailment/implication
4.11 Endurantism/perdurantism
4.12 Essence/accident
4.13 Internalism/externalism
4.14 Knowledge by acquaintance/description
4.15 Mind/body
4.16 Necessary/contingent
4.17 Necessary/sufficient
4.18 Nothingness/being
4.19 Objective/subjective
4.20 Realist/non‐realist
4.21 Sense/reference
4.22 Substratum/bundle
4.23 Syntax/semantics
4.24 Universal/particular
4.25 Thick/thin concepts
4.26 Types/tokens
5 Tools of Historical Schools and Philosophers
5.1 Aphorism, fragment, remark
5.2 Categories and specific differences
5.3 Elenchus and aporia
5.4 Hegel’s master/slave dialectic
5.5 Hume’s fork
5.6 Indirect discourse
5.7 Leibniz’s law of identity
5.8 Ockham’s razor
5.9 Phenomenological method(s)
5.10 Signs and signifiers
5.11 Transcendental argument
6 Tools for Radical Critique
6.1 Class critique
6.2 Différance, deconstruction, and the critique of presence
6.3 Empiricist critique of metaphysics
6.4 Feminist and gender critiques
6.5 Foucaultian critique of power
6.6 Heideggerian critique of metaphysics
6.7 Lacanian critique
6.8 Critiques of naturalism
6.9 Nietzschean critique of Christian–Platonic culture
6.10 Pragmatist critique
6.11 Sartrean critique of ‘bad faith’
7 Tools at the Limit
7.1 Basic beliefs
7.2 Gödel and incompleteness
7.3 Hermeneutic circle
7.4 Philosophy and/as art
7.5 Mystical experience and revelation
7.6 Paradoxes
7.7 Possibility and impossibility
7.8 Primitives
7.9 Self‐evident truths
7.10 Scepticism
7.11 Underdetermination and incommensurability
Index
End User License Agreement

Polecaj historie

The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods [3 ed.] 1119103215

1,341 103 4MB Read more

The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods [2. edition] 978-1-4051-9018-3, 1405190183

620 12 355KB Read more

Performance Analysis in Game Sports: Concepts and Methods: Concepts and Methods [1st ed. 2023] 3031072499, 9783031072499

This book offers a comprehensive overview on the methods and concepts of theoretical and practical performance analysis.

102 35 24MB Read more

Performance Analysis in Game Sports: Concepts and Methods: Concepts and Methods [1st ed. 2023] 3031072499, 9783031072499

This book offers a comprehensive overview on the methods and concepts of theoretical and practical performance analysis.

278 83 9MB Read more

Phylogenies in Ecology: A Guide to Concepts and Methods 9781400881192

Phylogenies in Ecology is the first book to critically review the application of phylogenetic methods in ecology, and it

224 41 4MB Read more

Modality: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts) 0190089865, 9780190089863

Modality: A History provides readers a sweeping study of the history of philosophical work on modal concepts. Everyday d

108 77 Read more

Molecular Interactions: Concepts and Methods 9780470290743, 0470290749

A modern, comprehensive text and reference describing intermolecular forces, this book begins with coverage of the conce

1,064 129 11MB Read more

Demographic Methods and Concepts 9780198752639, 0198752636

Note: If you want to download the ZIP file containing the Excel files in the accompanying CD ROM of the textbook: https:

1,274 250 114MB Read more

Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments 9780520944473

Experimental approaches to evolution provide indisputable evidence of evolution by directly observing the process at wor

234 83 14MB Read more

Environmental economics : concepts, methods and policies 9781138060050

283 46 95MB Read more