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1 online resource illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Particulars and Universals -- Logic and Language -- 1.1 Tokens and Types -- Particulars and Universals -- 1.2 Realism and Anti-realism -- 1.3 Propositional Logic -- 1.4 Predicate Logic -- 1.5 Identity -- 1.6 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions -- 1.7 Quotation -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Extension and Intension -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Set Theory -- 2.3 Mereology -- 2.4 Kinds of Extension and Intension -- 2.5 Possible Worlds -- 2.6 Mathematical Functions |
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2.7 The Possible Worlds Analysis of Intension -- 2.8 Rigid Designators -- 2.9 A Problem with the Possible Worlds Analysis of Intension -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Analyticity, Apriority, and Necessity -- 3.1 Four Distinctions in Truths -- 3.2 Logical vs Non-logical Truths -- 3.3 Analytic vs Synthetic Truths -- 3.4 A Priori vs A Posteriori Truths -- 3.5 The Possible Worlds Analysis of Modality -- Modal Logic -- 3.6 Metaphysical Modality -- the Necessary Truth -- 3.7 Essence and Haecceity -- 3.8 The Puzzle about the Statue and the Clay -- 3.9 De Re and De Dicto Modality -- 3.10 'The Trinity Thesis' |
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3.11 Kant's Synthetic A Priori -- 3.12 Kripke's Necessary A Posteriori -- 3.13 Counterfactual Conditionals -- 3.14 Causation -- 3.15 Epistemic and Deontic Modality -- 3.16 Temporal Modality -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Content, Linguistic and Mental -- 4.1 Form and Content -- Linguistic and Mental Content -- 4.2 Propositional Attitudes -- 4.3 Extensional and Intensional Contexts -- 4.4 De Re and De Dicto Mental Content -- 4.5 Descartes's Argument for Dualism -- 4.6 Skepticism -- 'a Brain in a Vat' -- 4.7 Moral Error Theory -- 4.8 Performative Utterances |
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4.9 Moral Expressivism and the Frege-Geach Problem -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Internalism and Externalism -- 5.1 Internalism vs Externalism in General -- Part A: Semantic Internalism and Externalism -- 5.2 The Description Theory of the Reference of Proper Names -- 5.3 Kripke's Criticism of the Description Theory -- 5.4 The Causal Theory -- 5.5 Searle's Defense of the Description Theory -- 5.6 The Meaning of Natural Kind Terms -- 'Twin Earth' -- 5.7 Two Internalist Responses -- 5.8 Narrow vs Wide Content -- Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Properties -- 5.9 Supervenience |
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Part B: Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology -- 5.10 The JTB Theory of Knowledge -- 5.11 Internalist Theories: Foundationalism and Coherentism -- 5.12 An Externalist Theory: Reliabilism -- 5.13 Putnam's Semantic Externalist Argument against Skepticism -- Part C: Internalist and Externalist Elements in Personal Identity -- 5.14 Locke's Theory of Personal Identity -- 5.15 Genuine and Pseudo Memory -- 5.16 The Duplication Problem and the No Competitor Theory -- Notes -- 1594813000037_77 -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Many philosophy majors are shocked by the gap between the relative ease of lower-level philosophy courses and the difficulty of upper-division courses. This book serves as a necessary bridge to upper-level study in philosophy by offering rigorous but concise and accessible accounts of basic concepts and distinctions that are used throughout the discipline. It serves as a valuable advanced introduction to any undergraduate who is moving into upper-level courses in philosophy. While lower-level introductions to philosophy usually deal with popular topics accessible to the general student (such as contemporary moral issues, free will, and personal identity) in a piecemeal fashion, The Philosophy Major's Introduction to Philosophy offers coverage of important general philosophical concepts, tools, and devices that may be used for a long time to come in various philosophical areas. The volume is helpfully divided between a focus on the relation between language and the world in the first three chapters and coverage of mental content in the final two chapters, but builds a coherent narrative from start to finish. It also provides ample study questions and helpful sign-posts throughout, making it a must-have for any student attempting to engage fully with the problems and arguments in philosophy"-- Provided by publisher |
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Philosophy -- Introductions.
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Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Introductions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020014970 |
| ISBN |
1000163172 |
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9781000163179 |
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