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Mar 7, 2019 · An Introduction to Philosophy provides a survey of central themes within the western, analytic tradition of philosophy. The book presents the fundamentals of logic and critical thinking, the Socratic method, and approaches to knowledge based in the Rationalist an Empiricist movements.
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY. HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL 2020. Professor Andreas Teuber. https://scholar.harvard.edu/teuber/home. I. Introduction. The primary concern of philosophy is the study of ideas central to the ways we think and live. The value, however, of many of our key concepts is often hidden from us.
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Introduction to Philosophy. It advances accessible versions of key philosophical arguments, in a form that students can emulate in their own writing, and with the primary aim of cultivating an understanding of the dynamics of philosophical argumentation. The book contains ten core chapters, covering the problem of
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philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, areas where philosophy has shown dramatic recent progress. This text concludes with four chapters on ethics, broadly construed. I cover traditional theories of right action in the third of these. Students are first invited first to think about what is good for
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There are no easy answers to the questions of what philosophy studies or how one does philosophy. Nevertheless, in this chapter, we can make some progress on these questions by (1) looking at past examples of philosophers, (2) considering one compelling definition of philosophy, and (3) looking at the way academic philosophers today actually ...
Chapter Outline. 1.1 What Is Philosophy? 1.2 How Do Philosophers Arrive at Truth? 1.3 Socrates as a Paradigmatic Historical Philosopher. 1.4 An Overview of Contemporary Philosophy. For most college students, an Introduction to Philosophy course is their first encounter with the study of philosophy.
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