James H. Hall

Practically Profound (eBook, ePUB)

Putting Philosophy to Work in Everyday Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Do you think that philosophy is an activity for old men in sandals with long white beards? Or people who sit under trees and wait to be struck on the head by apples? If so, then you owe it to yourself to explore the insights of this book. In conversational yet artful prose, James H. Hall reveals the many ways that you can actually enjoy and use philosophy in the course of your everyday experience. Doing philosophy involves critically examining key concepts, presuppositions and implications that are in play across the entire range of human inquiry. Practically Profound introduces the enterprise in three basic areas: knowledge and belief (epistemology), human nature (ontology) and the good life (ethics). Emphasizing experience-based arguments, the book demonstrates techniques that readers of all ages can use to enhance their own understanding of themselves and their world. This book is ideally suited to any introductory course in philosophy that takes a problems-based approach, as well as to general readers interested in putting philosophy to work in their everyday lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461641148
• Artikelnr.: 39142744

Autorenporträt

James H. Hall

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface: Philosophy: The Profound and the Pedestrian
Part 2 Belief
Chapter 3 Are Some Beliefs Better than Others?
Chapter 4 True Belief and Standards of Evidence
Chapter 5 Two Kinds of Evidence
Chapter 6 Other Kinds of Evidence
Part 7 Knowledge
Chapter 8 Knowledge, Fraud, Error and Uncertainty
Chapter 9 Knowledge and Subjectivity
Chapter 10 Knowledge and Cultural Relativism
Chapter 11 Problems with Paradigms
Chapter 12 Knowledge and Values
Part 13 Human Nature
Chapter 14 Human Nature: God, Society and Nature
Chapter 15 Causation, Freedom and Human Responsibility
Part 16 Human Conduct
Chapter 17 Self Fulfillment and Following Nature
Chapter 18 Obeying Rules
Chapter 19 Considering Consequences
Chapter 20 The Utility of Rules, Rights and Fair Play
Chapter 21 End Note. Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Chapter 22 Works Mentioned
Chapter 23 Index

Rezensionen

An entertaining and enlightening text for students and general readers alike. -- James Rachels, Author, Elements of Moral Philosophy, (1941-2003)