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PHIL 300: Introduction to Philosophy

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PHIL 300: Introduction to Philosophy

This text teaches students to apply the critical thinking techniques of analysis, evaluation, and synthesis to areas of philosophical inquiry including meta-philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, and existentialism.

Humanities
Author
Marnie Binder
Publisher
Cosumnes River College
Source
LibreTexts
Language
EN
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Contents· 88 sections
  1. 01: Philosophy
  2. 1.01: What Philosophy Is
  3. 1.1.01: What is philosophy
  4. 1.1.02: Metaphysics
  5. 1.1.03: Epistemology
  6. 1.1.04: Ethics
  7. 1.1.05: What is the value of philosophy
  8. 1.1.06: The Value of Philosophy
  9. 1.1.07: Review and Discussion Questions
  10. 1.02: How Philosophy is Done
  11. 1.2.01: Truth
  12. 1.2.02: Is Truth Relative to Meaning
  13. 1.2.03: Arguments
  14. 1.2.04: Deductive Validity
  15. 1.2.05: Inductive Strength
  16. 1.2.06: Fallacies
  17. 1.2.07: Review and Discussion Questions
  18. 1.2.08: Exercises
  19. 1.03: Plato
  20. 1.04: Socrates' Dialogue with Euthyphro
  21. 02: Logic and Critical Thinking
  22. 2.01: Introduction
  23. 2.02: Meaning
  24. 2.03: Definitions
  25. 2.04: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
  26. 2.05: Linguistic Pitfalls
  27. 2.06: Basic Logical Concepts
  28. 2.07: Validity and Soundness
  29. 2.08: Patterns of Valid Arguments
  30. 2.09: Morality
  31. 2.10: Causation
  32. 2.11: Fallacies and biases
  33. 2.12: Going forward
  34. 03: Philosophy of Religion
  35. 3.01: St. Thomas Aquinas On the Five Ways to Prove Gods Existence
  36. 3.02: St. Anselm On the Ontological Proof of Gods Existence
  37. 3.03: William James On the Will to Believe
  38. 04: Epistemology
  39. 4.01: The Rationalists
  40. 4.1.01: Descartes
  41. 4.1.02: Spinoza
  42. 4.1.03: Leibniz
  43. 4.1.04: Review and Discussion Questions
  44. 4.02: The Empricists
  45. 4.2.01: John Locke
  46. 4.2.02: George Berkeley
  47. 4.2.03: David Hume
  48. 4.2.04: Review and Discussion Questions
  49. 4.03: John Locke On the Foundation of Knowledge
  50. 4.04: George Berkeley reading - The Principles of Human Knowledge 1710
  51. 4.4.01: Introduction
  52. 4.4.02: Sections 1-50
  53. 4.4.03: Sections 51-99
  54. 4.4.04: Sections 100-156
  55. 4.05: David Hume On Empiricism
  56. 4.06: William James On Pragmatism
  57. 05: Metaphysics
  58. 5.01: Metaphysics
  59. 5.02: Plato On the Allegory of the Cave
  60. 5.03: Consciousness and Property Dualism
  61. 5.04: Rene Descartess Meditations on First Philosophy 1641
  62. 5.4.01: Preliminaries
  63. 5.4.02: Meditations 1 and 2
  64. 5.4.03: Meditations 3 and 4
  65. 5.4.04: Meditations 5 and 6
  66. 06: Ethics
  67. 6.01: Meta-Ethics
  68. 6.1.01: Applied Ethics Normative Ethics and Meta-Ethics
  69. 6.1.02: Realism Conventionalism and Subjectivism
  70. 6.1.03: Ethical Realism
  71. 6.1.04: Review and Discussion Questions
  72. 6.02: Right Action
  73. 6.2.01: Utilitarianism
  74. 6.2.02: Respect for Persons - Kants Moral Theory
  75. 6.2.03: Ethical Pluralism
  76. 6.2.04: Review and Discussion Questions
  77. 6.03: Nicomachean Ethics
  78. 6.04: Aristotle On Virtue
  79. 6.05: Immanuel Kant On Moral Principles
  80. 6.06: John Stuart Mill On Utilitarianism
  81. 07: Political Philosophy
  82. 7.01: Thomas Hobbes On The Social Contract
  83. 7.02: John Locke
  84. 7.03: John Locke On Property and the Formation of Societies
  85. 08: Philosophy of Art
  86. 8.01: Plato On the Value of Art and Imitation
  87. 8.02: Aristotle On Tragedy
  88. 8.03: Immanuel Kant On the Aesthetic Taste