xx, 516 pages 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references
Preface -- Introduction: The Philosophical enterprise -- 1 Philosophy and the modern world -- 2 The two sides of the philosophical task -- 3 Philosophical problems and philosophical systems -- 4 First steps in philosophy -- Part I: The meaning of meaning -- 5 Words and things -- 6 The conventionalist theory -- 7 An essentialist theory -- 8 Modified essentialism -- Part II: A Priori knowledge -- 9 The issue between rationalists and empiricists -- 10 The rationalist thesis -- 11 An empiricist retort -- 12 Another alternative for empiricists -- 13 A rationalist reply -- Part III: Problem of induction -- 14 The legacy of Hume -- 15 Empiricism and the problem of induction -- 16 The rationalists way out -- 17 The proposal of pragmatism -- 18 A footnote of Hume -- Part IV: The ontological status of the physical world -- 19 Common-sense realism and its critics -- 20 Critical realism -- 21 Hyper-critical realism -- 22 Phenomenalism -- 23 First retrospect -- Part V: 24 The central problem of meta-ethics -- 25 Naturalistic objectivism -- 26 Non-Naturalistic objectivism -- 27 Private subjectivism -- 28 Societal subjectivism -- 29 Emotivism -- 30 Imperativism -- 31 Multi-functionalism -- Part IV: The mind-body problem -- 32 The traditional problem of body and mind -- 33 Reductive materialism -- 34 -- Pan-Psychism -- 35 Dualism reconsidered -- Part VII: Freedom and determinism -- 36 The problem and the alternatives -- 37 The case for hard determinism -- 38 The case for soft determinism -- 39 The case for literarianism -- 40 Second retrospect -- Part VIII: The existence of God -- 41 A cluster of problems -- 42 The ontological argument -- 43 The cosmological argument -- 44 The teleological argument -- 45 The non-existence of God: A naturalistic rejoinder -- 46 The failure of the arguments: a sympathetic appraisal -- Part IX: 47 the problem of religious language -- 48 The Language of moral resolve -- 49 -- The language of human existence -- 50 The empirical foundations of religious language -- 51 The symbolic character of religious language -- Epilogue -- 52 Philosophy and liberal education -- For further reading -- Glossary of philosophical terms -- Index

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2023-06-28