Just the arguments : 100 of the most important arguments in Western philosophy / edited by Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruce, Michael (Michael David)

Barbone, Steven.

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--Introductions.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Introductions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 409 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I. Philosophy of religion. Aquinas' five ways / Timothy J. Pawl

The contingency cosmological argument / Mark T. Nelson

The Kalam argument for the existence of God / Harry Lesser

The ontological argument / Sara L. Uckelman

Pascal's wager / Leslie Burkholder

James' will to believe argument / A.T. Fyfe

The problem of evil / Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone

The free will defense to the problem of evil / Grant Sterling

St. Anselm on free choice and the power to sin / Julia Hermann

Hume's argument against miracles / Tommaso Piazza

The Euthyphro dilemma / David Baggett

Nietzsche's death of God / Tom Grimwood

Ockham's razor / Grant Sterling

Part II. Metaphysics. Parmenides' refutation of change / Adrian Bardon

McTaggart's argument against the reality of time / M. Joshua Mozersky

Berkeley's master argument for idealism / John M. DePoe

Kant's refutation of idealism / Adrian Bardon

The master argument of Diodorus Cronus / Ludger Jansen

Lewis' argument for possible worlds / David Vander Laan

A reductionist account of personal identity / Fauve Lybaert

Split-case arguments about personal identity / Ludger Jansen

The ship of Theseus / Ludger Jansen

The problem of temporary intrinsics / Montserrat Bordes

A modern modal argument for the soul / Rafal Urbaniak and Agnieszka Rostalska

Two arguments for the harmlessness of death. Epicurus' death is nothing to us argument / Steven Luper

Lucretius' symmetry argument / Nicolas Bommarito

The existence of forms : Plato's argument from the possibility of knowledge / Jurgis (George) Brakas

Plato, Aristotle, and the third man argument / Jurgis (George) Brakas

Logical monism / Luis Estrada-González

The maximality paradox / Nicola Ciprotti

An argument for free will / Gerald Harrison

Frankfurt's refutation of the principle of alternative possibilities / Gerald Harrison

Van Inwagen's consequence argument against compatibilism / Grant Sterling

Fatalism / Fernando Migura and Agustin Arrieta

Sartre's argument for freedom / Jeffrey Gordon

Part III. Epistomology. The cogito arguments of Descartes and Augustine. Descartes' cogito / Joyce Lazier

Augustine's "Si fallor, sum" argument (if I am mistaken, I exist) / Brett Gaul

The Cartesian dreaming argument for external-world skepticism / Stephen Hetherington

The transparency of experience argument / Carlos Mario Muñoz-Suárez

The regress argument for skepticism / Scott Aikin

Moore's anti-skeptical arguments / Matthew Frise

The bias paradox / Deborah Heikes

Gettier's argument against the traditional account of knowledge / John M. DePoe

Putnam's argument against cultural imperialism / Maria Caamaño

Davidson on the very idea of a conceptual scheme / George Wrisley

Quine's two dogmas of empiricism / Robert Sinclair

Hume and the problem of induction. Hume's problem of induction / James E. Taylor

Hume's negative argument concerning induction / Stefanie Rocknak

Argument by analogy in Thales and Anaximenes / Giannis Stamatellos

Quine's epistemology naturalized / Robert Sinclair

Sellars and the myth of the given / Willem A. deVries

Sellars' "Rylean myth" / Willem A. deVries

Aristotle and the argument to end all arguments / Toni Vogel Carey

Part IV. Ethics. Justice brings happiness in Plato's Republic / Joshua I. Weinstein

Aristotle's function argument / Sean McAleer

Aristotle's argument that goods are irreducible / Jurgis (George) Brakas

Aristotle's argument for perfectionism / Eric J. Silverman

Categorical imperative as the source for morality / Joyce Lazier

Kant on why autonomy deserves respect / Mark Piper

Mill's proof of utilitarianism / A.T. Fyfe

The experience machine objection to hedonism / Dan Weijers

The error theory argument / Robert L. Muhlnickel

Moore's open question argument / Bruno Verbeek

Wolff's argument for the rejection of state authority / Ben Saunders

Nozick's taxation is forced labor argument / Jason Waller

Charity is obligatory / Joakim Sandberg

The repugnant conclusion / Joakim Sandberg

Taurek on numbers don't count / Ben Saunders

Parfit's leveling down argument against egalitarianism / Ben Saunders

Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain argument / Fabian Wendt

Liberal feminism / Julinna C. Oxley

Moral status of animals from marginal cases / Julia Tanner

The ethical vegetarianism argument / Robert L. Muhlnickel

Thomson and the famous violinist / Leslie Burkholder

Marquis and the immorality of abortion / Leslie Burkholder

Tooley on abortion and infanticide / Ben Saunders

Rachels on euthanasia / Leslie Burkholder

Part V. Philosophy of mind. Leibniz' argument for innate ideas / Byron Kaldis

Descartes' arguments for the mind-body distinction / Dale Jacquette

Princess Elisabeth and the mind-body problem / Jen McWeeny

Kripke's argument for mind-body property dualism / Dale Jacquette

The argument from mental causation for physicalism / Amir Horowitz

Davidson's argument for anomalous monism / Amir Horowitz

Putnam's multiple realization argument against type-physicalism / Amir Horowitz

The supervenience argument against non-reductive physicalism / Andrew Russo

Ryle's argument against Cartesian internalism / Agustin Arrieta and Fernando Migura

Jackson's knowledge argument / Amir Horowitz

Nagel's "what is it like to be a bat" argument against physicalism / Amy Kind

Chalmer's zombie argument / Amy Kind

The argument from revelation / Carlos Mario Muñoz-Suárez

Searle and the Chinese room argument / Leslie Burkholder

Part VI. Science and language. Sir Karl Popper's demarcation argument / Liz Stillwaggon Swan

Kuhn's incommensurability arguments / Liz Stillwaggon Swan and Michael Bruce

Putnam's no miracles argument / Liz Stillwaggon Swan

Galileo's falling bodies / Liz Stillwaggon Swan

Eliminative materialism / Charlotte Blease

Wittgenstein's private language argument / George Wrisley

Fodor's argument for linguistic nativism / Majid Amini

Fodor and the impossibility of learning / Majid Amini

Quine on the indeterminacy of translation / Robert Sinclair

Davidson's argument for the principle of charity / Maria Caamaño

Frege's argument for Platonism / Ivan Kasa

Mathematical Platonism / Nicolas Pain. Appendix A. Learning the logical lingo. Appendix B. Rules of inference and replacement.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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