Coffee and Philosophy : A Conversational Introduction to Philosophy with Readings

, by Waller, Bruce N.

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ISBN: 9780321330932 | 0321330935
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Copyright: 5/18/2005

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Summary

Coffee and Philosophy covers the major issues of philosophy in an inexpensive novel, using classic dialogue form and presenting ideas, arguments and counterarguments, objections, criticisms, questions and answers as a conversation among three college students.

Thinking Critically
Sarah, Selina, and Ben
Ad Hominem Arguments
Fallacy of Appeal to Ignorance
Appeal to Authority
Dilemma Arguments
Strawman Fallacy
Fallacy of Begging the Question
Fallacy of Irrelevant Reason
Study Questions
Exercises
Glossary
Additional Resources
Religion and Philosophy
The Cosmological Argument
The Design Argument
Intuitive Knowledge of God
The Problem of Evil
God is Beyond Understanding
Concepts of God
The Benefits of Belief in God
Pascal's Wager
God and Science
Readings: David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Walter Stace, Time and Eternity
Denis Diderot, "Conversation with Marechale de ______."
Study Questions
Exercises
Glossary
Additional Resources
What Can we Know?
Empiricism
Rationalism
Kant
Readings: Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Exercises
The Foundations of Knowledge
Kant and the Importance of Perspective
Thomas Kuhn and Scientific Theory
Karl Popper
Belief Systems
Pragmatism
Readings: Charles Sanders Peirce, "The Fixation of Belief."
Karl Popper, "The Bucket and the Searchlight: Two Theories of Knowledge."
Study Questions
Exercises
Glossary
Additional Resources
The Nature of Mind
Descartes and Mind-Body Dualism
Are Thoughts Private
Solipsism
Wittgenstein and Privacy
Dualistic Interactionism
Malebranche and Occasionalism
Leibniz and Mind-Body Parallelism
Neuroscience and Mind-Body Dualism
Epiphenomenalism
Idealism
Spinoza and the Dual Aspect Theory
Eliminative Materialism
Readings: Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Gilbert Ryle, Concept of Mind
Study Questions
Exercises
Glossary
Additional Resources
Free Will
Determinism and Fatalism
Determinism and Choice
Determinism vs. Freedom
God and Determinism
Arguing for Determinism
Compatibilist Free Will
Libertarian Free Will
Existentialist Free Will
Free Will and Indeterminacy
Hume's Compatibilism
Readings: Lorenzo Valla, "Dialogue on Free Will."
David Hume, "Of Liberty and Necessity."
C. A. Campbell, "Has the Self lsquo;Free Will'?"
Study Questions
Exercises
Glossary
Additional Resources
Further Adventures with Free Will
Frankfurt's Hierarchical Compatibilism
Rationalist Compatibilism
Determinism and Spontaneity
Moral Responsibil
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