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An Introduction to Philosophy

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An Introduction to Philosophy

This text presents philosophy to newcomers as a living discipline with historical roots. While a few early chapters are historically organized, the goal in the historical chapters is to trace a developmental progression of thought that introduces basic philosophical methods and frames issues that remain relevant today. Later chapters include philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, areas where philosophy has shown dramatic recent progress. This text then addresses ethics, broadly construed.

PhilosophyHumanities
Author
Russ W. Payne
Publisher
Bellevue College
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-NC
Language
EN
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Contents· 61 sections
  1. 01: What Philosophy Is
  2. 1.01: What is philosophy
  3. 1.02: Metaphysics
  4. 1.03: Epistemology
  5. 1.04: Ethics
  6. 1.05: What is the value of philosophy
  7. 1.06: The Value of Philosophy
  8. 1.07: Review and Discussion Questions
  9. 02: How Philosophy is Done
  10. 2.01: Truth
  11. 2.02: Is Truth Relative to Meaning
  12. 2.03: Arguments
  13. 2.04: Deductive Validity
  14. 2.05: Inductive Strength
  15. 2.06: Fallacies
  16. 2.07: Review and Discussion Questions
  17. 2.08: Exercises
  18. 03: Ancient Philosophy
  19. 3.01: The Presocratics
  20. 3.02: Socrates
  21. 3.03: Plato
  22. 3.04: Aristotle
  23. 3.05: From Ancient to Modern Philosophy
  24. 3.06: Review and Discussion Questions
  25. 04: The Rationalists
  26. 4.01: Descartes
  27. 4.02: Spinoza
  28. 4.03: Leibniz
  29. 4.04: Review and Discussion Questions
  30. 05: The Empricists
  31. 5.01: John Locke
  32. 5.02: George Berkeley
  33. 5.03: David Hume
  34. 5.04: Review and Discussion Questions
  35. 06: Philosophy of Science
  36. 6.01: Karl Popper
  37. 6.02: Thomas Kuhn
  38. 6.03: Review and Discussion Questions
  39. 07: Philosophy of Mind
  40. 7.01: Empiricism leads to Logical Behaviorism
  41. 7.02: The Brain State Identity Theory
  42. 7.03: Functionalism
  43. 7.04: Consciousness and Property Dualism
  44. 08: Love and Happiness
  45. 8.01: Love
  46. 8.02: Happiness
  47. 8.03: Review and Discussion Questions
  48. 09: Meta-Ethics
  49. 9.01: Applied Ethics Normative Ethics and Meta-Ethics
  50. 9.02: Realism Conventionalism and Subjectivism
  51. 9.03: Ethical Realism
  52. 9.04: Review and Discussion Questions
  53. 10: Right Action
  54. 10.01: Utilitarianism
  55. 10.02: Respect for Persons - Kants Moral Theory
  56. 10.03: Ethical Pluralism
  57. 10.04: Review and Discussion Questions
  58. 11: Social Justice
  59. 11.01: John Locke
  60. 11.02: John Rawls
  61. 11.03: Review and Discussion Questions