Great Debates in Philosophy

Great Debates in Philosophy



This book aims to increase readers' abilities to think creatively and critically by exposing them to influential concepts, theories, arguments, criticisms, and replies in philosophy.

Preface



CHAPTER 01 Basic Terms and Logic

1. Philosophy

2. Belief

3. Truth

4. Argument

5. Deduction vs. Induction

6. Fallacies



CHAPTER 02 Philosophy of Religion

1. The Argument from the First Cause

2. The Argument from Design

3. The Argument from Miracles

4. The Argument from Religious Experiences

5. The Problem of Evil

6. Reason vs. Faith

7. Pascal's Wager



CHAPTER 03 Ethics

1. The Divine Command Theory

2. Cultural Relativism

3. Utilitarianism

4. Kant

5. The Veil of Ignorance

6. Virtue Ethics

7. Applications

8. Why Should We Be Moral?



CHAPTER 04 Philosophy of Mind

1. "I think, therefore I am."

2. Descartes's Three Distinctions

3. Interactionism

4. Substance Dualism

5. Epiphenomenalism

6. Reduction

7. Berkeley's Idealism

8. Hume's Bundle Theory of Mind

9. The Identity Theory

10. Functionalism



CHAPTER 05 Epistemology

1. Plato's Analysis of Knowledge

2. Analytic vs. Synthetic

3. A Priori vs. A Posteriori

4. Empiricism vs. Rationalism

5. Plato's Theory of Forms

6. Theories of Justification

7. Social Epistemology



CHAPTER 06 Evolutions

1. Evolutionary Theory

2. The Evolutions of Mind and Morality

3. The Modularity of Mind

4. Evolutionary Arms Race

5. Selfish Gene



CHAPTER 07 Personal Identity

1. The Psychological Approach

2. The Biological Approach

3. The Sociological Approach

4. The Hybrid Approach

5. Identity Nihilism



References

Index

Seungbae Park 저자 Seungbae Park is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2001, having specialized in philosophy of science under the guidance of Prof. Richard Healey. He taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Maryland, and POSTECH, before coming to his current institution in 2009. He has published papers in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Creativity Studies, Acta Analytica, Philosophia, Foundations of Science, Axiomathes, Filosofija. Sociologija, European Journal of Science and Theology, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Papers, and so forth.



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