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About Philosophy, 10th Edition

1) What is Philosophy
What Do Philosophers Do?

    -The Study of Human Nature

    -The Study of the Universe

    -Human Nature and the Universe

The Limitations of the Western Philosophical Tradition

Philosophy and the Philosopher

Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application

2) Theory of Knowledge
Descartes' Method of Doubt

Rationalism and Empiricism: Two Responses to Cartesian Doubt

Leibniz and Rationalism

Hume and Empiricism

Kant's Resolution of the Rationalism/Empiricism Debate

New Turns in Epistemology

Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application
3) Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind

What Is Metaphysics?

Hobbes' Materialism

Free Will and Determinism

The Mind and the Body

Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application
4) Philosophy of Science
The Place of Science in the Modern World

Francis Bacon and the Foundations of Scientific Method

The Relation Between Theory and Observation

Karl Popper and Falsifiability

Thomas Kuhn's Theory of Scientific Revolutions

Sciene as a Social Institution

Voices Beyond Popper and Kuhn

Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application
5) Ethical Theory (Pt. I) - The Varieties of Ethical Theory

Kant and the Commands of Duty

Three Reasons to Think About Ethics

Ethical Disagreement and the Categorical Imperative

Utilitarianism and the Calculation of Pleasures and Pains

Virtue Ethics

The Feminist Critique of Ethical Theory

Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application

5) Ethical Theory (Pt. II) - The Ethical Dimensions of Medicine

The Ethical Dimensions of Medical Decisions

Withholdiing Food and Water

The Buying and Selling of human Organs

What Should the Doctor Tell the Patient?

Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application

6) Social and Political Philosophy
Mill and Classical Laissez-Faire Liberalism

The Socialist Attack on Capitalism

Rousseau and the Theory of the Social Contract

The Pluralist Theory of the State

The Racial Critique of the Social Contract Theory of the State

Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application
7) Philosophy of Art
Plato's Attack on the Poets

Aristotle's Defense of the Poets

Marcuse and the Uses of Negation

Arthur C. Danto's Theory of Artistic Indentification

Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application
8) Philosophy of Religion

Kierkegaard's Encounter with Faiths

Can We Prove That God Exists?

William Paley: The Argument from Design

St. Thomas Aquinas: The Cosmological Argument

St. Anselm: The Ontological Argument

The Problem of Evil

Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application

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