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Introductions, Philosophy, Philosophy, introductions

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Reasoning: truth and prudence
Grounds for belief
What is an argument?
Fallacies of theoretical rationality
What is practical reasoning?
Fallacies of practical rationality
The greatest conceivable being
Theological arguments
The argument from design
The cosmological argument
The ontological argument
Pascal's "wager"
The argument from morality
A theological arguments
The paradox of the stone
The argument from evil
Right and wrong
Ethical egoism
Utilitarianism
Critiques of utilitarianism
Intermission : moral relativism
Kantian ethics
The matter of minds
Plato's tripartite soul
Descartes' simple mind
La Mettrie and machines
Ryle and the category mistake
The identity theory
Minds as computers
Consciousness
Are you free?
Universal determinism and its challenge to freedom
Does quantum mechanics save freedom?
Hume's compatibilism
Libertarian critiques of Hume
Hard determinism and the illusion of freedom
Is conscious will an illusion?
Freedom of will
What is a person?
Synnchronic and diachronic questions of identity
Synchronic identity
Memory links and identity over time
Bodily continuity and identity over time.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Indianapolis, IN
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Introductions.

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100
Library of Congress
BD21 .G74 2006, BD21.G74 2006

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p. cm.

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OL3409481M
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0872207978, 087220796X
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2005025433
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1932192
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