The Philosophical Journey: An Interactive Approach, 4/e
William F. Lawhead,
University of Mississippi
ISBN: 007338657x Copyright year: 2009
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: Introduction to the Philosophical Journey: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There?
1.0 Overview of the Journey
1.2 Plato's Allegory of the Cave
1.1 Socrates and the Search for Wisdom
1.3 Argument and Evidence: How Do I Decide What to Believe?
CHAPTER 2: The Search for Knowledge
2.0 Overview of the Problem of Knowledge
2.1 Skepticism
2.2 Rationalism
2.3 Empiricism
2.4 Kantian Constructivism
2.5 Epistemological Relativism
2.6 Rethinking the Western Tradition: Pragmatism
2.7 Rethinking the Western Tradition: Feminist Epistemology
CHAPTER 3: The Search for Ultimate Reality
3.0 Overview of Metaphysics
3.1 Overview: The Mind-Body Problem
3.2 Dualism
3.3 Physicalism
3.4 Functionalism and Artificial Intelligence
3.5 Overview: Freedom and Determinism
3.6 Hard Determinism
3.7 Libertarianism
3.8 Compatibilism
CHAPTER 4: The Search for God
4.0 Overview of Philosophy of Religion
4.1 The Cosmological Argument for God
4.2 The Design Argument for God
4.3 The Ontological Argument for God
4.4 Pragmatic and Subjective Justifications of Religious Belief
4.5 The Problem of Evil: Atheistic and Theistic Responses
CHAPTER 5: The Search for Ethical Values
5.0 Overview of Ethics
5.1 Ethical Relativism versus Objectivism
5.2 Ethical Egoism
5.3 Utilitarianism
5.4 Kantian Ethics
5.5 Virtue Ethics
5.6 Rethinking the Western Tradition: Feminist Ethics
CHAPTER 6: The Search for the Just Society
6.0 Overview of Political Philosophy
6.1 The Justification of Government
6.2 The Question of Justice
6.3 The Individual and the State
6.4 Civil Disobedience
CHAPTER 7: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
APPENDIX: Reasoning Effectively: What to Do and What Not to Do
2009