Authors: Ming, Thomas; Wong, Ching Wa; Leung, Danny; Yung, Lawrence; Lau, Yen Fong
Division: Higher Education
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-125288-1
ISBN-10: 0071252886
©2007 | 1st Edition | Softcover
Status: Active, In Print
Price: US$ 18.50

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Description:

Philosophy is a popular and difficult subject. Students taking philosophy courses in university are often at a loss for how to appreciate the strange problems they are taught. They either do not see there is a problem or feel that the problem is utterly trivial. The laymen are also captivated by the title "philosophy"; but once philosophical problems are systematically presented to them, they find the technicalities involved obscure, pretentious and unnecessary.
Twenty Problems in Philosophy is written to introduce reasonably motivated laymen and university students taking philosophy courses to the core problems of philosophy. These problems are presented in the way they are taught in a university, and yet the materials are packaged in a concise and accessible style. The coverage of this book is so broad that ten sub-disciplines of the philosophy curriculum are broached. This book is thus a complete mini-guide to contemporary western philosophy that is taught in a tertiary institution.

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Table of Contents:

Preface
1 Philosophy: The Problem of Having So Many Problems
2 Universals and Particulars: The Problem of What There Is
3 Identity: The Problem of Sameness and Difference
4 Free Will: The Problem of Will against Nature
5 Possible Worlds: Taking Counterparts Seriously
6 Time: The Problems of Time Travel and Change
7 Body and Soul: The Problem of Dualism
8 Thinking Machines: The Problem of Artificial Intelligence
9 Science and Subjectivity: The Problem of Consciousness
10 What Knowledge Is: The Gettier Problem
11 Scepticism: The Problem of Never Being Certain
12 Meaning: The Problem of Truth and Understanding
13 Sense and Reference: The Fregean Problem
14 Goodness: Is Morality a Matter of Psychology?
15 Justice: Can We be Just by Playing Fair?
16 Applied Ethics: Everyday Substantive Moral Problems
17 Beauty: The Problem of Projection
18 Induction: The Humean Problem
19 Conditionals: The Problems of If
20 Religion: The Problem of Evil
Contributors
Index
 

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