Philosophy : the pursuit of wisdom / Louis P. Pojman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Australia ; Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2004Edition: 4th edDescription: xiv, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0534605524Subject(s): Philosophy -- IntroductionsDDC classification: 100 LOC classification: BD21.P57Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: What is philosophy -- A little bit of logic -- The beginning of philosophy: the ancient Greeks -- The rise of the sophists and Socrates -- Philosophy of religion: an introduction -- The cosmological argument for the existence of god: a first cause -- The teleological argument for the existence of God -- The argument from religion experience -- The problem of evil -- Faith and reason -- The theory of knowledge -- What can we know? an introduction -- Skepticism -- Perception: can we have knowledge of the external world? -- Philosophy of mind -- The mind-body problem -- materialist monism -- Functionalism and biological naturalism -- Who am I? the problem of personal identity -- Is there life after death? person identity and immortality -- Freedom of the will and determinism -- Determinism -- Libertarianism -- Compatibilism: how to have your cake and eat it too -- Ethics -- What is ethics? -- Ethics relativism versus ethical objectivism -- Egoism,self-love, and altruism -- Utilitarianism and the structure of ethics -- Kantian deontological ethics -- Religion and ethics -- Existentialism and the meaning of life -- The meaning of life and the fear of death
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