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ISBN 10: 0470711453
ISBN 13: 9780470711453
Author: Martin Cohen
Confused by metaphysics? In a muddle with aesthetics? Intimidated by Kant? Then look no further! Philosophy For Dummies, UK Edition is a complete crash-course in philosophical thought, covering key philosophers, philosophical history and theory and the big questions that affect us today. Tying in with standard UK curricula and including core topics such as logic, ethics and political philosophy, this impartial, expert guide cuts through the jargon to give you the facts. Whether you’re a philosophy student or a complete beginner, Philosophy For Dummies, UK Edition will get you thinking and talking about philosophy in no time, and with maximum confidence.
Philosophy For Dummies UK Edition 1st Table of contents:
Part I: What Is Philosophy?
Chapter 1: What’s Philosophy All About?
Defining the Job
Loving Wisdom
Deciding What Counts as ‘Real’ Knowledge
Crunching Up Three Types of Knowing
Exploring the Physical World Around You
Chapter 2: Discovering Why Philosophy Matters
Laying the Foundations for Science
Getting to Know the Physical World
Inventing Systems and Logic
Doubting Everything You Don’t Know
Chapter 3: Becoming a Philosophical Thinker
Having a Philosophical Conversation
Peeking Inside the Philosopher’s Mind
Part II: The History of Philosophy
Chapter 4: Looking at Ancient Philosophies
Laying the Groundwork with the First Greek Philosophers
Plating Up Plato (and Serving Up Socrates)
Arguing with Aristotle
Chapter 5: Moving from the Dark Ages to the Modern Day
Proving God’s Existence in Medieval Europe
Trying to Do Without God
Thinking Like Machines
Pushing Aside Philosophy with Mathematics
Chapter 6: Looking at Eastern Philosophy
Contemplating the Mysterious Tao
Honouring Confucius
Debating with Buddha
Accepting suffering: Hinduism
Chapter 7: Understanding the ‘Isms’
What’s an Ism?
Choosing between Empiricism and Idealism
Trying to Pinpoint Idealism
Applying Utilitarianism
Letting Everything Hang Out with Relativism
Rejecting Emotion with Stoicism
Doubting with the Sceptics
Avoiding Dangerous ‘Isms’
Part III: The Nuts and Bolts of Philosophy
Chapter 8: Seeing the Limits of Logic
Understanding What Logic Really Is
Appreciating the Things Aristotle Got Right
Fixing the Things Aristotle Got Wrong
Spotting Fallacies
Examining Meaningless Statements
Chapter 9: Understanding Knowledge
Laying the Foundations of Knowledge
Decoding Empiricism and Rationalism
Deducing Impressive Truths with Descartes
Chapter 10: Separating Fact from Fiction
How Do You Know You’re Not Dreaming Right Now?
Doubting Everything with Descartes
Remembering the Role of Memory
What Happens When the Brain Goes Wrong?
Chapter 11: Interpreting Language
Deconstructing Language
Conducting Philosophical Investigations with Wittgenstein
Poking at Colour Terms with Pinker
Investigating the Causes of Fires with Benjamin Whorf
Finding Linguistic Relativity Amongst the Hopi Indians
Having Another Go at Deconstructing Language with Derrida
Part IV: Exploring the Mind, Consciousness and Morality
Chapter 12: Exploring the Strange Notion of Mind
Getting to Grips with Philosophy of Mind
Probing the Pesky Problem of Other Minds
Exploring Existentialism with Ryle’s Ghost in the Machine
Discovering the Will to Philosophise
Chapter 13: Looking at Ethics and Morality
What Would God Do?
Pinning Down the Difference Between Right and Wrong
Understanding Key Ethical Theories
Applying Ethics to Hard Cases
Chapter 14: Political Philosophy
Meeting the Great Political Philosophers
Choosing Between Authority and Anarchy: Plato
Saluting Hegel and Totalitarianism
Fearing Hitler and the Bewitching Effects of Propaganda
Marching for Marxism
Signing Up to the Social Contract
Applying Machiavelli’s Social Glue
Chapter 15: Looking Out for Liberty
Praising Liberty: The American Declaration of Independence
Profiting from the Slave Trade with John Locke
Taking the Democratic Turn with J. S. Mill
Voting for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wealth
Searching for Equality of Outcome or of Opportunity
Chapter 16: Aesthetics and Human Values
So, Just What Is Art?
Arguing about Art and Intentions
Appreciating the Aesthetic Sense
Considering Aesthetics, Art and Beauty
Choosing between Banned and Approved Art
Getting Back to Nature
Part V: Philosophy and Science
Chapter 17: From Ancient Science to Modern Philosophy
Theorising on Everything With Early Greek Philosophers
Carving Up the World with Natural Philosophers
Chapter 18: Investigating the Science of Society
Understanding the Science of Society
Keeping Positive with Comte
Socialising with Durkheim
Being Bureaucratic with Weber
Treating People as Economic Entities
Chapter 19: Exploring Scientific Truth and Scientific Fashions
Setting the Scene: Reason and Science
Causing Science Problems with the Problem of Causation
Letting Black Swans Destroy Favoured Theories
Shifting Paradigms and Causing Scientific Revolutions
Comparing Quantum Mechanics to Common-or-Garden Mechanics
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 20: Ten Famous Philosophical Books — and What They Say
The Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant
The Republic, by Plato
Fear and Trembling, by Søren Kierkegaard
Ethics, by Baruch Spinoza
Discourse on Method, by René Descartes
A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, by George Berkeley
Ethics, by Aristotle
Existentialism and Humanism, by Jean-Paul Sartre
Chapter 21: Ten Philosophical Puzzles to Keep You Thinking
Probing Protagoras’s Problem
Playing in the Sandpit with the Sorites Problem
Identifying Locke’s Sock
Knowing Your Own Mind with Swampy Things
Losing Your Marbles with Professor Davidson
Squabbling over the Plank of Carneades
Giving Up Reality with the X-perience Machine
Jumping Up for the Cosmos
Worrying about What Happens After the Sun Goes Out
Getting Relativity in Einstein’s Elevator
Index
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