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Engaging philosophy :

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087220796X

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0872207978

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9780872207967

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Title Proper

Engaging philosophy :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a brief introduction /

First Statement of Responsibility

Mitchell S. Green.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Indianapolis, IN :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Hackett Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 164 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Reasoning: truth and prudence -- Grounds for belief -- What is an argument? -- Fallacies of theoretical rationality -- What is practical reasoning? -- Fallacies of practical rationality -- The greatest conceivable being -- Theological arguments -- Atheological arguments -- Right and wrong -- Ethical egoism -- Utilitarianism -- Critiques of utilitarianism -- Intermission : moral relativism -- Kantian ethics -- The matter of minds -- Plato's tripartite soul -- Descartes' division -- La Mettrie and machines -- Ryle and the category mistake -- The identity theory -- Minds as computers -- Consciousness -- Are you free? -- Universal determinism and its challenge to freedom -- Does quantum mechanics save freedom? -- Hume's compatibilism -- Libertarian critiques of Hume -- Hard determinism and the illusion of freedom -- Is conscious will an illusion? -- Freedom of will -- What is a person? -- Synnchronic and diachronic questions of identity -- Synchronic identity -- Memory links and identity over time -- Bodily continuity and identity over time.

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Philosophy, Introductions.

Philosophy.

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Edition

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Green, Mitchell S.

Date of Transaction

20201204073949.0

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