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Reality? Knowledge? Philosophy! : An Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology / Stephen Hetherington.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748616640
  • 9781474469128
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Using this Book -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Persons -- 2. Free Will -- 3. God and Evil -- 4. Life's Meaning -- 5. Death's Harm -- 6. Properties -- 7. Truth -- 8. Well Supported -- 9. Knowledge -- 10. Observational Knowledge -- 11. Pure Reason -- 12. Sceptical Doubts -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748616657);Fundamentally, what are we? And what, if anything, do we know? Minds, bodies; free will; evil; meaningful lives; harmful deaths: do such properties make us whatever we are? Truth; rationality; fallibility; knowledge; observation, reason; sceptical doubts: are these also vital to our being whatever we are?You do not understand yourself and others until you have done battle with those questions. And Reality? Knowledge? Philosophy! shows you how to do that. It can help you to gain a better philosophy of people's lives. Become a better person too. Be surprised at how easily your thinking philosophically about reality and knowledge can lead to your reflecting on life's ethical complications.Key FeaturesOffers a new way of approaching metaphysics and epistemology - via links to ethical and social questions.Readable, clear and engaging.Encourages discussion and independent thought. Blends thought-provoking theories with questions applicable to everyday life."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Using this Book -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Persons -- 2. Free Will -- 3. God and Evil -- 4. Life's Meaning -- 5. Death's Harm -- 6. Properties -- 7. Truth -- 8. Well Supported -- 9. Knowledge -- 10. Observational Knowledge -- 11. Pure Reason -- 12. Sceptical Doubts -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748616657);Fundamentally, what are we? And what, if anything, do we know? Minds, bodies; free will; evil; meaningful lives; harmful deaths: do such properties make us whatever we are? Truth; rationality; fallibility; knowledge; observation, reason; sceptical doubts: are these also vital to our being whatever we are?You do not understand yourself and others until you have done battle with those questions. And Reality? Knowledge? Philosophy! shows you how to do that. It can help you to gain a better philosophy of people's lives. Become a better person too. Be surprised at how easily your thinking philosophically about reality and knowledge can lead to your reflecting on life's ethical complications.Key FeaturesOffers a new way of approaching metaphysics and epistemology - via links to ethical and social questions.Readable, clear and engaging.Encourages discussion and independent thought. Blends thought-provoking theories with questions applicable to everyday life."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)