50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to KnowIn a series of 50 accessible and lucidly written essays, Ben Dupre introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, beliefs, justice, language, meaning and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day. |
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Introduction | 3 |
PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE 01 The brain in a vat | 4 |
Platos cave | 8 |
Copyright | |
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according actions animals appears barber paradox basic behaviour belief boo/hoorah theory brain cashew categorical imperative cause cave century claim Cogito ergo sum concept conclusion condensed idea consequentialist cosmological argument debate Descartes difference principle distinction dualism Ends and means essentially ethical exist experience machine explain fact fallacy false Forms of argument freedom freewill defence gambler's fallacy golden rule human Hume Hume's guillotine induction inference influential instance intentions intuitions justified Kant kill kind king of France knowledge language logic look mathematical matter mental mind mind-body problem moral nature objects Occam's razor ontological argument paradigm particular person philosopher physical physicalist Plato position possible premises prisoner's dilemma problem of evil punishment question rational relativism scepticism scientific sense ship of Theseus similar slippery slope so-called sorites paradox suppose things thought true truth Turing test universe utilitarian virtue Wittgenstein words wrong