50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to KnowHave you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master? |
Contents
Introduction | |
PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE | |
The brain in a vat 02 Platos cave 03 The veil of perception 04 Cogito ergo | |
Reason and experience | |
The tripartite theory of knowledge | |
MIND MATTERS 07 The mindbody problem | |
What is it like to be a bat? 09 The Turing test 10 The ship of Theseus 11 Other minds | |
ETHICS | |
Humes guillotine 13 One mans meat | |
The divine command theory | |
The boohoorah theory | |
Ends and means | |
The experience machine 18 The categorical imperative | |