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Core Questions in Philosophy emphasizes the idea that philosophy is a subject de voted to evaluating arguments and constructing theories. Presented in an engaging lecture-style format, this text/reader focuses on the basic issues and ideas in philosophy with lectures/discussions, supported by readings from historically important sources. Discussions emphasize the logic of philosophical arguments and how they relate to the content of modern physical and social sciences. Teaching & Learning Experience The teaching and learning experience with this program helps to: Improve Critical Thinking - Review questions at the end of each chapter allow students to review what they've just learned and think critically about related problems.
Engage Students - Following a lecture format, the text portion is written in an engaging conversational tone. Explore Theory - Emphasis on evaluating arguments and constructing theories. Support Instructors - An instructor's manual, test bank, MyTest Test Bank, and PowerPoint presentation provide more teaching resources. Part 1: Introduction Chapter 1: What Is Philosophy? Reading: What is Philosophy - Bertrand Russell Chapter 2: Deductive Arguments Chapter 3: Inductive and Abductive Arguments Part 2: The Philosophy of Religion Chapter 4: Aquinas's First Four Ways Reading: Five Ways to Prove That God Exists - Saint Thomas Aquinas Chapter 5: The Design Argument Readings: The Design Argument - William Paley Critique of the Design Argument - David Hume Chapter 6: Evolution and Creationism Chapter 7: Can Science Explain Everything? Chapter 8: The Ontological Argument Reading: Debate - Saint Anselm and Gaunilo Chapter 9: Is the Existence of God Testable? Reading: The Meaninglessness of Religious Discourse - Alfred Jules Ayer Chapter 10: Pascal and Irrationality Readings: Belief in God - What Do You Have to Lose?
- Blaise Pascal The Will to Believe - William James Chapter 11: The Argument from Evil Part 3: Theory of Knowledge Chapter 12: What Is Knowledge? Reading: The Theaetetus - Knowledge is Something More than True Belief Plato Chapter 13: Descartes' Foundationalism Reading: Meditations on First Philosophy, 1-5 - Rene Descartes Chapter 14: The Reliability Theory of Knowledge Chapter 15: Justified Belief and Hume's Problem of Induction Reading: Induction Cannot Be Rationally Justified - David Hume Chapter 16: Can Hume's Skepticism Be Refuted? 'Sober is a real philosopher and the clarity of his thought helps this book immensely.' - Sean Stidd, Wayne State University 'I definitely think that the author wrote this book with the student in mind.
Although the ideas presented are difficult, the author does a great job in explaining the theories without 'tarnishing' the philosophers theory. So many text ruin the power of the philosophical thought because they want to make the idea 'understandable'.
It is not the case in this text. I thought the explanations were spot on.'
- Louis Howe, Jr., Central Connecticut State University. Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy and William F. Vilas Research Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His research is in the philosophy of science, especially in the philosophy of evolutionary biology. Sober's books include The Nature of Selection - Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus (1984), Reconstructing the Past - Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference (1988), Philosophy of Biology (1993), Unto Others - The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (1998, coauthored with David Sloan Wilson), Evidence and Evolution - the Logic Behind the Science (2008), and Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? He won the Lakatos Prize in 1991 and the American Philosophical Association named him Prometheus Laureate for 2008. He has been president of the Philosophy of Science Association and the American Philosophical Association (Central Division). He is currently president of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science (Division of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science).