Introducing Philosophy God Mind World and Logic 1st Edition by Neil Tennant ISBN 0415537142 9780415537148

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ISBN 10: 0415537142

ISBN 13: 9780415537148 

Author: Neil Tennant 

Written for any readers interested in better harnessing philosophy’s real value, this book covers a broad range of fundamental philosophical problems and certain intellectual techniques for addressing those problems. In Introducing Philosophy: God, Mind, World, and Logic, Neil Tennant helps any student in pursuit of a ‘big picture’ to think independently, question received dogma, and analyse problems incisively. It also connects philosophy to other areas of study at the university, enabling all students to employ the concepts and techniques of this millennia-old discipline throughout their college careers – and beyond.　

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS:

— Investigates the philosophy of various subjects (psychology, language, biology, math), helping students contextualize philosophy and view it as an interdisciplinary pursuit; also helps students with majors outside of philosophy to see the relationship between philosophy and their own focused academic pursuits

— Author comes from a distinguished background in Logic and Philosophy of Language, which gives the book a level of rigor, balance, and analytic focus sometimes missing from primers to philosophy

— Introduces students to various important philosophical distinctions (e.g. fact vs. value, descriptive vs. prescriptive, norms vs. laws of nature, analytic vs. synthetic, inductive vs. deductive, a priori vs. a posteriori) providing skills that are important for undergraduates to develop in order to inform their study at higher levels. They are essential for further work in philosophy but they are also very beneficial for students pursuing most other disciplines

— Is much more methodologically comprehensive than competing introductions, giving the student the ability to address a wide range of philosophical problems – and not just the ones reviewed in the book

— Offers a companion website with links to apt primary sources, organized chapter-by-chapter, making unnecessary a separate Reader/Anthology of primary sources – thus providing students with all reading material necessary for the course

— Provides five to ten discussion questions for each chapter, helping instructors and students better interact with the ideas and concepts in the text

Table of contents:

I. The Nature of Philosophy

1. The Main Features of Philosophy
2. Philosophy’s History and Legacy
3. The Philosophical Temperament
4. Important Concepts and Distinctions
5. Kant’s Two Distinctions
6. Important Opposing `-Isms’

II. Philosophy and Method
7. What is Logic?
8. Inductive Reasoning
9. The Method of Conceptual Analysis
10. The Method of Conceptual Explication
11. The Method of Thought-Experiment
12. Intellectual Creativity and Rigor
13. Deduction in Mathematics and Science
14. The Methodological Issue of Reductionism

III. The Existence of God
15. A Priori Arguments for the Existence of God
16. The Argument From Design
17. The Argument From Contemporary Creationism
18. Pascal’s Wager
19. The Problem of Evil

IV. Mind, Body and External World
20. The Pivotal Figure of Descartes: Dualism and Skepticism
21. Problems about Mind
22. Cartesian Dualism versus Logical Behaviorism
23. Materialism and Supervenience
24. Functionalism
25. Free Will v. Determinism

V. Representation, Inference and the Elusive Infinite
26. Representation and Evaluation
27. From Evaluation to Deduction
28. Paradoxes
29. Description v. Deduction: The Clash of Ideals

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