[PDF] Philosophical Topics eBook

Author : James Fieser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :

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"This topically organized anthology and textbook includes numerous excerpts from contemporary philosophers, as well as from Western classics and major Eastern texts, encouraging students to explore connections between works from the Western and Eastern traditions and from different time periods."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Alward
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1554812852

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Peter Alward’s rigorous introductory text functions as a roadmap for students, laying out the key issues, positions, and arguments of academic philosophy. The book covers central topics in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. An introductory chapter presents the foundations of philosophical discourse and offers a primer on the basics of logic. Those argumentative tools are then employed to address classic philosophical issues such as the relationship between body and mind, skepticism, the possibility of free will, and the existence of God. Later chapters engage issues of morality, justice, and liberty, as well as moral questions concerning abortion and the practice of punishment. Throughout, Alward aims for clarity, providing summaries, diagrams, and reflective questions to assist the student reader.

Author : Gary C. Gibson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0557075297

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105 essays written by Gary C. Gibson between 2007 and 2009 on contemporary philosophical interests. Christian ideas are considered with theological and cosmological juxtapositions for analytical purposes.

Author : N. Rescher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401735468

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The aim of the book is to introduce the reader to some new areas oflogic which have yet to find their way into the bulk of modern logic books written from the more orthodox direction of the mainstream of develop ments. Such a work seems to me much needed, both because of the in trinsic value and increasing prominence of the nonstandard sector of logic, and because this particular sector is of the greatest interest from the standpoint of philosophical implications and applications. This book unites a series of studies in philosophical logic, drawing for the most part on material which I have contributed to the journal liter ature of the subject over the past ten years. Despite the fact that some of these essays have been published in various journals at different times, they possess a high degree of thematic and methodological unity. All of these studies deal with material of substantial current interest in philo sophical logic and embody a fusion of the modern techniques of logical and linguistic-philosophical analysis for the exploration of areas of logic that are of substantial philosophical relevance.

Author : Gary Clifford Gibson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2009-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0557081688

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Religious and philosophical topics written between 2007 and 2009 form this collection of essays published by Gary C. Gibson in 2009.

Author : Robert M. Martin
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1770482164

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Philosophical Conversations is a light, informal, and contemporary introduction to the study of philosophy. Using a dialogue format, Robert M. Martin delves into the traditional questions of philosophy in a manner that readers will find engaging. These substantive yet entertaining conversations emphasize that philosophical questions are contested and open-ended. The characters in each dialogue advocate different answers to questions on religion, ethics, personal identity, and other topics equitably and without naming any clear winners. Philosophic positions are presented with maximum clarity and persuasiveness, so that readers can appreciate all sides of an issue and make their own choices. An excellent tool for newcomers to philosophy, Philosophical Conversations provides the necessary background for further study while vividly portraying the back-and-forth argument that is essential to the philosophical method.

Author : Dien Ho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9402409793

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This anthology provides a collection of new essays on ethical and philosophical issues that concern the development, dispensing, and use of pharmaceuticals. It brings together critical ethical issues in pharmaceutics that have not been included in any collection (e.g., the ethics of patients as researchers). In addition, it includes philosophical issues that are not within the traditional domain of applied ethics. For example, a game-theoretic approach to combating the emergence of antibiotic-resistent pathogens by spreading altruism. A tripartite distinction provides an organized series of discussions that shows the interrelatedness of philosophical issues from the creation of pharmaceuticals, the creation of demand for them, through their delivery to their ultimate consumption.