TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dupre, Ben
AU  - Hunt,Thomas C
AU  - Okholm,Dennis L
TI  - 50 philosophy ideas: you really need to know
SN  - 9781847240064
AV  - BD 21 D87F 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Quercus
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - INTRODUCTIONS
N1  - Includes index; PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE: The brain in a vat; Plato's cave; The veil of perception; Cogito ergo sum; Reason and experience; The tripartite theory of knowledge. pp.4-27; MIND MATTERS: The mind-body problem; What is it like to be a bat? The Turing test; The ship of Theseus; Other minds. pp.28-47; ETHICS: 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. pp.48-99; ANIMAL RIGHTS: Do animals feel pain? Do animals have rights? pp.100-107; LOGIC AND MEANING: Forms of argument; The barber paradox; The gambler's fallacy; The sorites paradox; The king of France is bald; The beetle in the box. pp.108-131; SCIENCE: Science and pseudoscience; Paradigm shift; Occam's razor. pp.132-143; AESTHETICS: What is art? The intentional fallacy. pp.144-151; RELIGION: The argument from design; The cosmological argument; The ontological argument; The problem of evil; The freewill defence; Faith and reason. pp.152-175; POLITICS, JUSTICE AND SOCIETY: Positive and negative freedom; The difference principle; Leviathan; The prisoner's dilemma; Theories of punishment; Lifeboat Earth; Just war. pp.176-203
ER  -