Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
Advice to Readers and Format of the Volume | |
Knowledge and Certainty | |
Innate Knowledge: Plato, Meno | |
Knowledge versus Opinion: Plato, Republic | |
Demonstrative Knowledge and its Starting-points: Aristotle, Posterior Analytics | |
New Foundations for Knowledge: Renu Descartes, Meditations | |
The Senses as the Basis of Knowledge: John Locke, Essay concerning Human Understanding | |
Innate Knowledge Defended: Gottfried Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding | |
Scepticism versus Human Nature: David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | |
Experience and Understanding: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason | |
From Sense-certainty to Self-consciousness: Georg Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit | |
Against Scepticism: G. E. Moore, A Defence of Common Sense | |
Specimen Questions.uggestions for Further Reading | |
The Allegory of the Cave: Plato, Republic | |
Individual Substance: Aristotle, Categories | |
Supreme Being and Created Things: Renu Descartes, Principles of Philosophy | |
Qualities and Ideas: John Locke, Essay concerning Human Understanding | |
Substance, Life and Activity: Gottfried Leibniz, New System | |
Nothing Outside the Mind: George Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge | |
The Limits of Metaphysical Speculation: David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | |
Metaphysics, Old and New: Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena | |
Being and Involvement: Martin Heidegger, Being and Time | |
The End of Metaphysics?: Rudolf Carnap, The Elimination of Metaphysics | |
Specimin Questions | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Mind and Body | |
The Immortal Soul: Plato, Phaedo | |
Soul and Body, Form and Master: Aristotle, De Anima | |
The Human Soul: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae | |
The Incorporeal Mind: Renu Descartes, Meditations | |
The Identity of Mind and Body: Benedict Spinoza, Ethics | |
Mind-Body Correlations: Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogues on Metaphysics | |
Body and Mind as Manifestations of Will: Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea | |
The Problem of Other Minds: John Stuart Mill, An Examination of Sir William Hamilton''s Philosophy | |
The Hallmarks of Mental Phenomena: Franz Brentano, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint | |
The Myth of the ''Ghost in the Machine'': Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind | |
Specimen Questions | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
The Self and Freedom:he Self | |
The Self and Consciousness: John Locke, Essay concerning Human Understanding | |
The Self as Primitive Concept: Joseph Butler, Of Personal Identity | |
The Self as Bundle: David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature | |
The Partly Hidden Self: Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis | |
Liberation from the Self: Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons | |
Freedom | |
Human Freedom and Divine Providence: Augustine of Hippo, The City of God | |
Freedom to Do What We Want: Thomas Hobbes, Liberty, Necessity and Chance | |
Absolute Determinism: Pierre Simon de Laplace, Philosophical Essay on Probability | |
Condemned to be Free: Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness | |
Determination and Our Attitudes to Others: Peter Strawson, Freedom and Resentment | |
Specimen Questions.uggestions for Further Reading | |
God and Religion | |
The Existence of God: Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion | |
The Five Proofs of God: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae | |
God and the Idea of Perfection: Renu Descartes, Meditations | |
The Wager: Blaise Pascal, Pensues | |
The Problem of Evil: Gottfried Leibniz, Theodicy | |
The Argument from Design: David Hume, Dialogues concerning Natural Religion | |
Against Miracles: David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | |
Faith and Subjectivity: S<$$$>ren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript | |
Reason, Passion and the Religious Hypothesis: William James, The Will to Believe | |
The Meaning of Religious Language: John Wisdom, Gods | |
Specimen Questions | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Science and Method | |
Four Types of Explanation | |
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.