50 philosophy ideas you really need to know
Have you ever laid 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' If so, you are not alone'and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and other ones like it have been the stuff of philosophical rumination from Plato to Popper. In a series of accessible and engagingly written essays, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day
Introductions
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The brain in a vat
Plato's cave
The veil of perception
Cogito ergo sum
Reason and experience
The tripartite theory of knowledge
The mind-body problem
What is it like to be a bat?
The Turing test
The ship of Theseus
Other minds
Hume's guillotine
One man's meat ..
The divine command theory
The boo/hoorah theory
Ends and means
The experience machine
The categorical imperative
The golden rule
Acts and omissions
Slippery slopes
Beyond the call of duty
Is it bad to be unlucky?
Virtue ethics
Do animals feel pain?
Do animals have rights?
Forms of argument
The barber paradox
The gambler's fallacy
The sorites paradox
The king of France is bald
The beetle in the box
Science and pseudoscience
Paradigm shifts
Occam's razor
What is art?
The intentional fallacy
The argument from design
The cosmological argument
The ontological argument
The problem of evil
The freewill defence
Faith and reason
Positive and negative freedom
The difference principle
Leviathan
The prisoner's dilemma
Theories of punishment
Lifeboat Earth
Just war
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