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Knowledge, Reality, and Value

Author : Michael Huemer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Reality, and Value written by Michael Huemer and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's best introduction to philosophy, Knowledge, Reality, and Value explains basic philosophical problems in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, such as: How can we know about the world outside our minds? Is there a God? Do we have free will? Are there objective values? What distinguishes morally right from morally wrong actions? The text succinctly explains the most important theories and arguments about these things, and it does so a lot less boringly than most books written by professors."My work is all a series of footnotes to Mike Huemer." -Plato"This book is way better than my lecture notes." -Aristotle"When I have a little money, I buy Mike Huemer's books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." -ErasmusContentsPreface Part I: Preliminaries 1. What Is Philosophy? 2. Logic 3. Critical Thinking, 1: Intellectual Virtue 4. Critical Thinking, 2: Fallacies 5. Absolute Truth Part II: Epistemology 6. Skepticism About the External World 7. Global Skepticism vs. Foundationalism 8. Defining "Knowledge" Part III: Metaphysics 9. Arguments for Theism 10. Arguments for Atheism 11. Free Will 12. Personal Identity Part IV: Ethics 13. Metaethics 14. Ethical Theory, 1: Utilitarianism 15. Ethical Theory, 2: Deontology 16. Applied Ethics, 1: The Duty of Charity 17. Applied Ethics, 2: Animal Ethics 18. Concluding Thoughts Appendix: A Guide to Writing GlossaryMichael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, where he has taught since the dawn of time. He is the author of a nearly infinite number of articles in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, in addition to seven other amazing and brilliant books that you should immediately buy.

Value, Reality, and Desire

Author : Graham Oddie
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191534250
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Value, Reality, and Desire written by Graham Oddie and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value, Reality, and Desire is an extended argument for a robust realism about value. The robust realist affirms the following distinctive theses. There are genuine claims about value which are true or false - there are facts about value. These value-facts are mind-independent - they are not reducible to desires or other mental states, or indeed to any non-mental facts of a non-evaluative kind. And these genuine, mind-independent, irreducible value-facts are causally efficacious. Values, quite literally, affect us. These are not particularly fashionable theses, and taken as a whole they go somewhat against the grain of quite a lot of recent work in the metaphysics of value. Further, against the received view, Oddie argues that we can have knowledge of values by experiential acquaintance, that there are experiences of value which can be both veridical and appropriately responsive to the values themselves. Finally, these value-experiences are not the products of some exotic and implausible faculty of 'intuition'. Rather, they are perfectly mundane and familiar mental states - namely, desires. This view explains how values can be 'intrinsically motivating', without falling foul of the widely accepted 'queerness' objection. There are, of course, other objections to each of the realist's claims. In showing how and why these objections fail, Oddie introduces a wealth of interesting and original insights about issues of wider interest - including the nature of properties, reduction, supervenience, and causation. The result is a novel and interesting account which illuminates what would otherwise be deeply puzzling features of value and desire and the connections between them.

Mind, Value, and Reality

Author : John Henry McDowell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674007130
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Mind, Value, and Reality written by John Henry McDowell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects some of McDowell’s most influential papers of the last two decades. The essays deal with themes such as the interpretation of Aristotle’s and Plato’s ethical writings, questions in moral philosophy that arise out of the Greek tradition, Wittengensteinian ideas about reason in action, and issues central to philosophy of mind.

The Knowledge of Reality

Author : Wincenty Lutoslawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107455685
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge of Reality written by Wincenty Lutoslawski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wincenty Lutosławski (1863-1954) was a multilingual Polish philosopher and author who coined the term 'stylometry'. Originally published in 1930, this book presents the outline of a course in metaphysics delivered by Lutosławski at a variety of academic institutions from 1890 onwards. Numerous aspects of reality are discussed in an effort to form a unified conception of it, from the material world through to abstract spirituality. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in metaphysics and the development of philosophy.

Knowledge and Reality

Author : Thomas M. Crisp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402047339
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Reality written by Thomas M. Crisp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alvin Plantinga is one of the leading figures in Anglo-American metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of religion; his work in these areas has been the focus of wide scholarly attention. This collection of essays, all of which were written specifically for this volume in honor of Plantinga’s 70th birthday, ranges broadly over topics in metaphysics and epistemology and includes contributions by some of the best philosophers writing today.

Theory and Reality

Author : Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677113X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Theory and Reality written by Peter Godfrey-Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Examples and asides engage the beginning student, a glossary of terms explains key concepts, and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. Like no other text in this field, Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow. The second edition is thoroughly updated and expanded by the author with a new chapter on truth, simplicity, and models in science.

Knowledge and Reality

Author : P. Parrini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0792349393
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Reality written by P. Parrini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-03-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: XIV The stability of a philosophical construction will depend not only upon the solidity of the blocks, of the pillars and architraves that make it up, but also upon the way in which all these parts are connected. Of course, it will not be possible to argue for every single part of a philosophical building: to do so would mean to embark in a virtually endless enterprise. Accordingly, some of the parts of a philosophical building will have to be taken from the literature on the subject as 'ready made' or 'semi-finished' elements, while others will be argued for in the course of building. This is what happened in my work too. In some cases (for in stance, in the case of epistemic relativism), my concern was to illustrate theses which I believed to be sufficiently consolidated, rather than to ar gue for them. In other cases - where I was directly engaged in building the theory that I want to fonnulate - I did exactly the opposite. This is what I have tried to achieve, for example, for those proper architraves of my construction, viz. the connection between scepticism and metaphysi cal realism. and the thesis of the nonnative value of the fundamental epistemological notions (truth, objectivity, and rationality).

Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality

Author : Dr R Scott Smith
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409481735
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality written by Dr R Scott Smith and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in a fresh way that we cannot know reality on the basis of naturalism. Moreover, the "fact-value" split has failed to serve our interests of wanting to know reality. The author provocatively argues that since we can know reality, it must be due to a non-naturalistic ontology, best explained by the fact that human knowers are made and designed by God. The book offers fresh implications for the testing of religious truth-claims, science, ethics, education, and public policy. Consequently, naturalism and the fact-value split are shown to be false, and Christian theism is shown to be true.

The Problems of Philosophy

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192854232
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Problems of Philosophy written by Bertrand Russell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.

Reality, Knowledge, and Value

Author : Jerome A. Shaffer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780394312675
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Reality, Knowledge, and Value written by Jerome A. Shaffer and published by . This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Value of Philosophy

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549905544
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Value of Philosophy written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Value of Philosophy" is one of the most important chapters of Bertrand's Russell's magnum Opus, The Problems of Philosophy. As a whole, Russell focuses on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data.

Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

Author : David J. Chalmers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635813
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy written by David J. Chalmers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it. Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be in a virtual world already. Along the way, Chalmers conducts a grand tour of big ideas in philosophy and science. He uses virtual reality technology to offer a new perspective on long-established philosophical questions. How do we know that there’s an external world? Is there a god? What is the nature of reality? What’s the relation between mind and body? How can we lead a good life? All of these questions are illuminated or transformed by Chalmers’ mind-bending analysis. Studded with illustrations that bring philosophical issues to life, Reality+ is a major statement that will shape discussion of philosophy, science, and technology for years to come.

Language, Truth and Logic

Author : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113094
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Language, Truth and Logic written by Alfred Jules Ayer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself." — Bertrand Russell First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teachers, students, and general readers alike. Mr. Ayers sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. You will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience — those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis.

Reason, Truth, and Reality

Author : Daniel Goldstick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802095941
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Reason, Truth, and Reality written by Daniel Goldstick and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing consideration upon a characterization of reason in its deductive, inductive, and ethical functioning, Goldstick asks what must hold good for reason so characterized to be a dependable guide to truth.

Summary of Michael Huemer's Knowledge, Reality, And Value

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669351904
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Michael Huemer's Knowledge, Reality, And Value written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-09T22:59:00Z with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Ship of Theseus is a classic philosophical problem. It asks whether a certain ship, which was damaged and replaced its wooden parts one by one, is the same ship as the original. It is not a scientific question, but it is not entirely without answer. #2 The subject matter of philosophy is extremely broad. It ranges from general questions about what exists and what sort of world this is, to questions about the nature of knowledge and how we know what we think we know. #3 The branches of philosophy are ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, logic, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. They all study questions that are similar to those studied by religion and science, but they approach them using different methods. #4 The difference between religion and philosophy is that with religion, there are often key claims that one is meant to accept because they come from a particular person, or institution, or book, etc. And one is supposed to trust that person or institution or book because it (or its author) had a form of supernatural access to the truth.

Knowledge, Reality, and Values (Revised First Edition)

Author : Dena Shottenkirk
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781621319405
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Reality, and Values (Revised First Edition) written by Dena Shottenkirk and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191578304
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction written by Julia Annas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book introduces readers to some ancient debates to engage with the ancient developments of some themes. Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ancient philosophy, and of its wide variety of themes and styles. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.