philosophy

Law, Stephen. Philosophy. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2007.

stephen obtained a first class degree in philosophy from the city university, london. he continued his studies at oxford university, where he was a junior reaseach fellow for three years, and is currently a lecturer in philosophy at heythrop college, the university of london.

ch 1 inroducing philosophy

- what is philosophy?

ch 2 the history of philosophy
- the ancients
- the medieval world
- the early moderns
- the modern age

ch 3 branches of philosophy
- knowledge (scepticism / what is knowledge? / reason and experience)
- metaphysics (plato and the forms / mind-dependence)
- moral philosophy (what should i do? / so what is morality?)
- philosophy of mind (the consciousness puzzle / could a machine think?)
- philosophy of religion (does god exist? / the problem of evil / faith and reason)
- political philosophy (the liberal ideal / the common good)
- philosophy of science (the problem of induction / falsificationism)

ch 4 philosophy toolkit
- reasoning
- fallacies
- thinking tools

ch 5 who's who in philosophy
- introduction
- directory