Great philosophical arguments

    • Michele Moody-Adams, - Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

      “Academic Freedom, Moral Diversity and Moral Education” Martin O’Neill, Graduate Fellow in Ethics 2002-2003. Michele Moody-Adams, who received her graduate training in Philosophy at Harvard and is now Director of the Center for Ethics and Public Life at Cornell, is a philosopher with an unusually wide breadth of expertise.


    • [DOC File]Just and Unjust Wars - and Just and Unjust Arguments

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      Arguments - sometimes thought of as the stock-in-trade of philosophers - vary greatly as to form and content and even kind. Despite the great differences among them, legal argumentation, political debates, mathematicians' proofs, interpersonal disagreements, and philosophical discourse all fall under the rubric "argument."


    • [DOC File]Theory of Knowledge Reading List

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      Many films have great philosophical issues at their heart and some particular examples are highlighted in the Film section of the list. Knowers and Ways of Knowing (Language, Reason, Emotion, Perception) ... 36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Candide by Voltaire.


    • [DOC File]Philosophy 125 – Great Philosophers

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      To develop students’ ability to construct and communicate philosophical arguments, both orally and in writing. The exact set of “great philosophers” studied in the Washington University Great Philosophers course varies a bit from one term to another. For this incarnation of the course, we will read the following five: Plato (428/427 BCE ...


    • [DOC File]Zach Broderick - Brandeis University

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      Understanding of this system is what tends to be controversial, and the lack of it is what makes philosophical arguments based on economics questionable. However, one only need look back on history to see that even a small disruption of this system can have catastrophic results, plunging the wealthiest nations into poverty; the Great Depression ...


    • [DOC File]PHILOSOPHICAL ADVENTURES

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      While some analytic philosophers develop their arguments in journal articles or books, often focusing on very narrow topics, the great continental thinkers provide vast philosophical vistas that include philosophy of history, metaphysics, social theory, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and other normative concerns.


    • REVIEW BLURBS - PhilArchive

      He illustrates, through numerous philosophical arguments and literary examples, that man’s aloneness is the primary truth of human existence. The work is contemporary in its ‘in touchness’ with man’s predicament but at the same time demolishes the trite and falsely comforting contention that loneliness is a problem of recent civilization.


    • [DOC File]Philosophy 328/ Philosophical Issues in the Law

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      1- To critically analyze, understand and evaluate a range of philosophical arguments on the central concerns of law and legal philosophy (the sources of law, obligation, role of law in society, crime and punishment) their contexts and implications.


    • [DOC File]PHIL 20: Moral Questions

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      Apply these skills to philosophical arguments. Understand basic ethical theories. Understand the concepts and ideas that are central to several applied ethical topics. Develop your own ideas about the tough questions of ethics Learning Outcomes. Explain and critique normative theories and apply them to value conflict in the contemporary world


    • [DOC File]Inductive Method - PhilSci-Archive

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      The unfortunate conflation of the doctrine of empiricism with the investigative experimental method has led us to miss one of the great philosophical discoveries of modern times, namely how the Academic and the Peripatetic systems of philosophy were blended artfully together in an intriguing way by Bacon to give us a philosophy unlike any ...



    • [DOC File]Philosophy: Basic Questions; Prof

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      We will focus only on a few arguments, especially those found in Part I. To understand what motivates Spinoza’s project, we need turn no further than Descartes. Spinoza was a very close reader and great admirer of Descartes, and he conceived his philosophical system as a way of overcoming some of the difficulties that plague Descartes’.


    • [DOC File]UNIT 2 MODULE 1

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      All great writers are philosophical. Thoreau was philosophical. Thus, Thoreau was a great writer. EXAMPLE 2.1.7 Solution . Both arguments are INVALID, because they are examples of Fallacy of the Converse. It is not necessary to make the truth tables, although the truth tables will verify the claims that these arguments are invalid. EXAMPLE 2.1.8


    • [DOC File]The Knowledge of God as Informed by Philosophical Argument ...

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      by Philosophical Argument and Reflection: Some Excursions. ... philosophical arguments for God’s existence, and two examples of nontraditional theistic “metaphysics” or “ontology.” ... Such a being must possess all “great-making” properties to the fullest extent that they could conceivably be possessed all at once by a single ...


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