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" Engaging philosophy : "
Mitchell S. Green.
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BL
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993232
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b747602
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| Main Entry
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Green, Mitchell S.
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| Title & Author
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Engaging philosophy : : a brief introduction /\ Mitchell S. Green.
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| Publication Statement
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Indianapolis, IN :: Hackett Pub. Co.,, ©2006.
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xi, 164 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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087220796X
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: 0872207978
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: 9780872207967
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: 9780872207974
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Philosophy.
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100
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BD21.G74 2006
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