TY - BOOK AU - Green Mitchell S TI - Engaging philosophy: a brief introduction SN - 0872207978 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BD21 U1 - 100 PY - 2006/// CY - Indianapolis, IN PB - Hackett Pub. Co. KW - Philosophy KW - Introductions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Reasoning: truth and prudence -- Grounds for belief -- What is an argument? -- Fallacies of theoretical rationality -- What is practical reasoning? -- Fallacies of practical rationality -- The greatest conceivable being -- Theological arguments -- Atheological arguments -- Right and wrong -- Ethical egoism -- Utilitarianism -- Critiques of utilitarianism -- Intermission : moral relativism -- Kantian ethics -- The matter of minds -- Plato's tripartite soul -- Descartes' division -- La Mettrie and machines -- Ryle and the category mistake -- The identity theory -- Minds as computers -- Consciousness -- Are you free? -- Universal determinism and its challenge to freedom -- Does quantum mechanics save freedom? -- Hume's compatibilism -- Libertarian critiques of Hume -- Hard determinism and the illusion of freedom -- Is conscious will an illusion? -- Freedom of will -- What is a person? -- Synnchronic and diachronic questions of identity -- Synchronic identity -- Memory links and identity over time -- Bodily continuity and identity over time UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005025433.html ER -