50 Philosphy Ideas

An introduction to philosophy focuses on fifty philosophical ideas, from animal rights and the mind-body problem to the freewill defense, the categorical imperative, and the problem of evil.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ben Dupré
Format: Printed Book
Published: London Quercus 2007
Subjects:
Philosophy > Introductions. Philosophy.
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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