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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
Advice to Readers and Format of the Volume | |
Knowledge and Certainty | |
Innate Knowledge: Plato, Meno | |
Knowledge versus Opinion: Plato, Republic | |
Demonstrative Knowledge and its Starting-points: Aristotle, Posterior Analytics | |
New Foundations for Knowledge: Ren? Descartes, Meditations | |
The Senses as the Basis of Knowledge: John Locke, Essay concerning Human Understanding | |
Innate Knowledge Defended: Gottfried Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding | |
Scepticism versus Human Nature: David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | |
Experience and Understanding: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason | |
From Sense-certainty to Self-consciousness: Georg Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit | |
Against Scepticism: G. E. Moore, A Defence of Common Sense | |
Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation? Wilfrid Sellars, The Myth of the Given | |
The Conditions for Knowledge: Edmund Gettier, Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?.Specimen Questions.Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Being and Reality | |
The Allegory of the Cave: Plato, Republic | |
Individual Substance: Aristotle, Categories | |
Supreme Being and Created Things: Ren? Descartes, Principles of Philosophy | |
Qualities and Ideas: John Locke, Essay concerning Human Understanding | |
Substance, Life and Activity: Gottfried Leibniz, New System | |
Nothing Outside the Mind: George Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge | |
The Limits of Metaphysical Speculation: David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | |
Metaphysics, Old and New: Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena | |
Being and Involvement: Martin Heidegger, Being and Time | |
The End of Metaphysics?: Rudolf Carnap, The Elimination of Metaphysics | |
The Problem of Ontology: W. V. O. Quine, On What There Is | |
Why Is There Anything?: Derek Parfit, The Puzzle of Reality.Specimen Questions.Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Language and Meaning | |
The Meaning of Words: Plato, Cratylus | |
Language and its Acquisition: Augustine, Confessions | |
Thought, Language and its Components: William of Ockham, Writings on Logic | |
Language, Reason and Animal Utterance: Ren? Descartes, Discourse on the Method | |
Abstract General Ideas: John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
Particular Ideas and General Meaning: George Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge | |
Denotation versus Connotation: John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic | |
Names and their Meaning: Gottlob Frege, Sense and Reference | |
Definite Descriptions: Bertrand Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Logic | |
Non-descriptive Uses of Language: J. L. Austin, Performative Utterances | |
Language, Meaning and Context: Paul Grice, Logic and Conversation | |
How the Reference of Terms is Fixed: Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity.Specimen Questions.Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Mind and Body | |
The Immortal Soul: Plato, Phaedo | |
Soul and Body, Form and Matter: Aristotle, De Anima | |
The Human Soul: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae | |
The Incorporeal Mind: Ren? Descartes, Meditations | |
The Identity of Mind and Body: Benedict Spinoza, Ethics | |
Mind-Body Correlations: Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogues on Metaphysics | |
Body and Mind as Manifestations of Will: Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea | |
The Problem of Other Minds: John Stuart Mill, An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy | |
The Hallmarks of Mental Phenomena: Franz Brentano, Psychology from an Empirical St | |
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