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This accessible text-reader includes extensive student pedagogy--running summaries, high-interest boxes, biographies, epigrams, a philosophical dictionary, and a timeline/map. The new edition offers a new chapter on virtue ethics, new cases and questions from environmental and biomedical ethics, a new chapter on communitarian and feminist critiques of contemporary liberalism, and more!

Table of Contents:
Preface INTRODUCTION: THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? The Word Itself The Fields of Philosophy A Rational, Critical Enterprise Differing Conceptions A Working Definition Professor Miller's Four Principles Chapter 1 in Review CHAPTER 2: A LITTLE LOGIC The Three Laws of Thought What Is An Argument? Informal Fallacies Chapter 2 in Review PART ONE: THE QUESTION OF REALITY CHAPTER 3: THE IDEA OF FORM Plato and Socrates The Two Worlds: Appearance and Reality The Theory of the Forms Degrees of Reality and Knowledge The Good, the Sun, and the Cave Aristotle's Criticism of Plato Aristotle's View of Form After Plato and Aristotle Chapter 3 in Review CHAPTER 4: MIND AND MATTER Descartes: The Father of Modern Philosophy "What Can I Know for Certain?" The Intuition of Mind The Deduction of God The Deduction of Matter Some Objections The Mind-Body Problem Mind: A Set of Dispositions or Functions Chapter 4 in Review CHAPTER 5: MATERIALISM What Is Materialism? Man a Machine The New Materialism Are the Mind and Body Identical? Beyond Freedom and Dignity: Skinner Are All Things Determined? Chapter 5 in Review PART TWO: THE QUESTION OF KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER 6: THE WAY OF REASON Two Main Theories about the Basis of Knowledge Reason as the Basic of Knowledge The Rationalism of Plato The Rationalism of Descartes A Contemporary Version: Chomsky Chapter 6 in Review CHAPTER 7: THE WAY OF EXPERIENCE What Is Empiricism? Classical Empiricism: Aristotle and St. Thomas Modern Empiricism: Locke Radical Empiricism: Hume Chapter 7 in Review CHAPTER 8: THE PROBLEM OF CERTAINTY Kant and Hume Some Important Terminology Is There Synthetic A Priori Knowledge? The Limits of Reason Chapter 8 in Review PART THREE: THE QUESTION OF GOD CHAPTER 9: GOD AND THE WORLD Natural Theology The Cosmological Argument The Teleological Argument The Problem of Causality Chapter 9 in Review CHAPTER 10: RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE The Experience of the Numinous The Mystical Ascent Mysticisms East The Way of Zen Is Religious Experience Evidence for God? Chapter 10 in Review CHAPTER 11: GOD AND EVIL What Is the Problem? Some Solutions Evil as a Privation of Goodness The Free-Will Defense Evil as Therapy Evil Is Irrational Chapter 11 in Review PART FOUR: THE QUESTION OF MORALITY CHAPTER 12: CHALLENGES TO MORALITY The Challenge of Relativism The Challenge of Determinism The Challenge of Existentialism Chapter 12 in Review CHAPTER 13: UTILITARIANISM What Is Utilitarianism? Bentham's Version: Quantity over Quality Mill's Version: Quality over Quantity Some Objections Chapter 13 in Review CHAPTER 14: THE ROLE OF DUTY Morality as Unconditional The Good Will Kant's Categorical Imperative The Test of Moral Actions Some Objections Chapter 14 in Review CHAPTER 15: VIRTUE Character and Action Aristotle on Happiness and Virtue The Virtues Objections Is There a Natural Law? Chapter 15 in Review Glossary Acknowledgments Index

About the Author :
Ed L. Miller holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Southern California and a Doctorate of Theology from the University of Basel, Switzerland. He has taught for the last thirty years at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition to being a member of the philosophy faculty, he also teaches for the Religious Studies Department and is Director of the Theology Forum. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Christian Philosophers, and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. JON JENSEN received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he was a student of Professor Miller. While his philosophical interests vary widely, his research and publications focus on environmental philosophy. Jensen has taught at the University of Colorado, Green Mountain College, and now at Luther College, his alma mater. In addition to teaching philosophy, he is an active member of Luther’s Environmental Studies program and enjoys canoeing, bicycling, backpacking, and gardening.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780072975017
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 590 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0072975016
  • Publisher Date: 08 Aug 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 512
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: An Invitation to Philosophy, Brief Version
  • Width: 150 mm


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