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Index
Cover Page
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Introduction
1 What Are We Doing in This Class? Is Philosophy Possible?
The Origins of Philosophy
Contemporary Branches of Philosophy
Epistemology
Ethics
Political and Social Philosophy
Aesthetics
Contemporary Styles of Philosophy
The Philosophy of Socrates
Conclusion
Topics for Consideration
Suggestions for Further Reading: Paperback Editions
2 Truth Is Beauty; Beauty Is Truth Rationalist Epistemology
The Philosophy of Plato
Images
Concepts
Forms
René Descartes’s Rationalism
Notes
3 What You See Is What You Get Empiricist Epistemology
Simple and Complex Ideas
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Substance
Berkeley’s Correction of Locke
Sense Data
The Source of Sense Data
Hume’s Radicalization of Berkeley’s Empiricism
Logical Positivism:The Further Radicalization of Empiricism
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Notion of Sense Data
Attacks on Logical Positivism’s Language
Kant’s Compromise
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date
Rationalism in the Twenty-First Century
4 Who’s on First;What’s on Second? Ontology
Dualism
Materialistic Monism
Behaviorism
The Mind-Brain IdentityTheory
Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism and Its Discontents
Pluralism
5 Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places Philosophy of Religion
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