LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2015460114 |
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781785782893 |
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International Standard Book Number |
9781435109575 (hardback) |
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International Standard Book Number |
1435109570 |
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Call number |
100 TH IR |
TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
30-second philosophies : |
Subtitle |
the 50 most thought-provoking philosophies, each explained in half a minute / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Editor, Barry Loewer ; foreword Stephen Law ; contributors Julian Baggini ... [and 4 others]. |
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Title proper/short title |
Thirty-second philosophies |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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160 p. : |
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col. ill. ; |
Size |
24 cm. |
CONTENTS |
Contents |
Language & Logic -- Glossary -- Aristotle's syllogisms -- Russell's paradox & Frege's logicism -- profile: Aristotle -- Russell's theory of description -- Frege's puzzle -- Gödel's theorem -- Epimenides' liar paradox -- Eubulides' heap -- Science & Epistemology -- Glossary -- I think therefore I am -- Gettier's counter example -- profile: Karl Popper -- The brain in a vat -- Hume's problem of induction -- Goodman's gruesome riddle -- Popper's conjectures & refutations -- Kuhn's scientific revolutions -- Mind & Metaphysics -- Glossary -- Descartes mind-body problem -- Brentano's intentionality -- Fodor's language of thought -- Parfit's persons -- profile: René Descartes -- Chalmer's zombies -- Zeno's paradoxes -- Kant's left hand -- Theseus' ship -- Laplace's demon, determinism, & free will -- Ryle's ghost in the machine -- Ethics & Political Philosophy -- Glossary -- Aristotle's ethics -- States of nature and the social contract -- Kant's categorical imperative -- profile: Immanuel Kant -- Mill's utilitarianism -- Marx's historical materialism -- The trolley problem -- Religion -- Glossary -- Aquinas' five ways -- Anselm's ontological argument -- profile: Thomas Aquinas -- Epicurus' riddle -- Paley's watchmaker -- Pascal's wager -- Hume against miracles -- Grand Moments -- Glossary -- Socrates' method -- Plato's cave -- Aristotle's four causes -- Lucretius' atomism -- profile: Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Berkeley's idealism -- Kant's synthetic a priori -- Hegel's dialectic -- James' pragmatism -- Moore's common sense -- Wittgenstein's picture theory of language -- Continental Philosophy -- Glossary -- Nietzsche's Superman -- profile: Friedrich Nietzsche -- Derrida's deconstruction -- Heidegger's nothing -- Sartre's bad faith. |
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Loewer, Barry, |
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Law, Stephen, |
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Baggini, Julian, |
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Balog, Kati |
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Garvey, James, |
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Loewer, Barry, |
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Stangroom, Jeremy, |
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Hissey, Ivan, |
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