Looseleaf for Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments

by Schick, Theodore; Vaughn, Lewis

• ISBN13: 9781260687040
• ISBN10: 126068704X
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780078038259, 9781259416491
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2019-01-25
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1The Philosophical Enterprise

Section 1.1Explaining the Possibility of the Impossible: Philosophical Problems and Theories

Section 1.2Evidence and Inference: Proving Your Point

Section 1.3The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments

Chapter 2The Mind-Body Problem

Section 2.1The Ghost in the Machine: Mind as Soul

Section 2.2You Are What You Eat: Mind as Body

Section 2.3I, Robot:  Mind as Software

Section 2.4There Ain’t No Such Things as Ghosts: Mind as Myth

Section 2.5The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Mind as Quality

 

Chapter 3Free Will and Determinism

Section 3.1The Luck of the Draw: Freedom as Chance

Section 3.2The Mother of Invention: Freedom as Necessity

Section 3.3Control Yourself: Freedom as Self-Determination

Chapter 4The Problem of Personal Identity

Section 4.1We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On: Self as Substance

Section 4.2Golden Memories: Self as Psyche

Section 4.3You Can’t Step into the Same River Twice: Self as Process

Chapter 5The Problem of Relativism and Morality

Section 5.1Don’t Question Authority: Might Makes Right

Section 5.2The End Justifies the Means: Good Makes Right

Section 5.3Much Obliged: Duty Makes Right

Section 5.4Character Is Destiny: Virtue Makes Right

Chapter 6The Problem of Evil and the Existence of God

Section 6.1The Mysterious Universe: God as Creator

Section 6.2When Bad Things Happen to Good People: God as Troublemaker

Section 6.3Faith and Meaning: Believing the Unbelievable

Chapter 7The Problem of Skepticism and Knowledge

Section 7.1Things Aren’t Always What They Seem: Skepticism about Skepticism Greek Rationalism

Section 7.2Facing Reality: Perception and the External World

Section 7.3What Do You Know?