Western philosophy : an illustrated guide / general editor, David Papineau.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0195221435
  • 9780195221435
  • 9780195221435
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD 21 .W434 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
1. World / Tim Crane -- What is reality? -- Aristotle -- The physical world -- The supernatural -- Cause -- Hume -- Idealism -- Berkeley -- Hegel -- Phenomenology -- Truth -- Mathematics -- The infinite -- Leibniz -- Time and space -- 2. Mind and body / Jesse Prinz -- What is the mind? -- Descartes -- Thinking -- Fodor -- Consciousness -- Feelings and emotions -- Language -- Wittgenstein -- Free will -- Spinoza -- The self -- Sanity and insanity -- Life and death -- 3. Knowledge / Adam Morton -- What is knowledge? -- Plato -- Perception and experience -- Locke -- Scepticism -- Relativism -- Foucault -- Quine -- Logic and reasoning -- Carnap -- Induction and deduction -- Bacon -- Diderot -- Science -- Rationality -- Common sense -- Pragmatism -- Wisdom -- 4. Faith / John Cottingham -- Is there a God? -- Aquinas -- Faith and reason -- Augustine -- Miracles -- The afterlife -- Pascal -- Atheism and agnosticism -- Pain and evil -- Voltaire -- Kierkegaard -- The meaning of life -- 5. Ethics and aesthetics / Brenda Almond -- What is morality? -- Stoicism -- Mill -- Kant -- Lying -- Conscience -- Altruism and egoism -- Responsibility -- Moral absolutes -- Nietzsche -- Existentialism -- Sartre -- Goodness -- Love and friendship -- Sex -- Reproduction -- Animals -- Technology and nature -- Beauty -- Schopenhauer -- Art -- Taste and decency -- 6. Society / Jonathan Woolf -- What is society? -- Authority -- Hobbes -- Democracy -- Rousseau -- Freedom -- Tradition -- Rights -- Laws -- Bentham -- Crime and punishment -- Social justice -- Rawls -- Equality -- Ownership -- Rich and poor -- Marx -- Globalization -- War.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-217) and index.

1. World / Tim Crane -- What is reality? -- Aristotle -- The physical world -- The supernatural -- Cause -- Hume -- Idealism -- Berkeley -- Hegel -- Phenomenology -- Truth -- Mathematics -- The infinite -- Leibniz -- Time and space -- 2. Mind and body / Jesse Prinz -- What is the mind? -- Descartes -- Thinking -- Fodor -- Consciousness -- Feelings and emotions -- Language -- Wittgenstein -- Free will -- Spinoza -- The self -- Sanity and insanity -- Life and death -- 3. Knowledge / Adam Morton -- What is knowledge? -- Plato -- Perception and experience -- Locke -- Scepticism -- Relativism -- Foucault -- Quine -- Logic and reasoning -- Carnap -- Induction and deduction -- Bacon -- Diderot -- Science -- Rationality -- Common sense -- Pragmatism -- Wisdom -- 4. Faith / John Cottingham -- Is there a God? -- Aquinas -- Faith and reason -- Augustine -- Miracles -- The afterlife -- Pascal -- Atheism and agnosticism -- Pain and evil -- Voltaire -- Kierkegaard -- The meaning of life -- 5. Ethics and aesthetics / Brenda Almond -- What is morality? -- Stoicism -- Mill -- Kant -- Lying -- Conscience -- Altruism and egoism -- Responsibility -- Moral absolutes -- Nietzsche -- Existentialism -- Sartre -- Goodness -- Love and friendship -- Sex -- Reproduction -- Animals -- Technology and nature -- Beauty -- Schopenhauer -- Art -- Taste and decency -- 6. Society / Jonathan Woolf -- What is society? -- Authority -- Hobbes -- Democracy -- Rousseau -- Freedom -- Tradition -- Rights -- Laws -- Bentham -- Crime and punishment -- Social justice -- Rawls -- Equality -- Ownership -- Rich and poor -- Marx -- Globalization -- War.

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