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Just the arguments: 100 of the most important arguments in Western philosophy
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Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date
2011
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English
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From the Book
Aquinas' five ways / Timothy J. Pawl
The contingency cosmological argument / Mark T. Nelson
The Kalam argument for the existence of God / Harry Lesser
The ontological argument / Sara L. Uckelman
Pascal's wager / Leslie Burkholder
James' will to believe argument / A.T. Fyfe
The problem of evil / Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone
The free will defense to the problem of evil / Grant Sterling
St. Anselm on free choice and the power to sin / Julia Hermann
Hume's argument against miracles / Tommaso Piazza
The Euthyphro dilemma / David Baggett
Nietzche's death of God / Tom Grimwood
Ockham's razor / Grant Sterling
Parmenides' refutation of change / Adrian Bardon
McTaggart's argument against the reality of time / M. Joshua Mozersky
Berkeley's master argument for idealism / John M. DePoe
Kant's refutation of idealism / Adrian Bardon
The master argument of Diodorus Cronus / Ludger Jansen
Lewis' argument for possible worlds / David Vander Laan
A reductionist account of personal identity / Fauve Lybaert
Split-case arguments about personal identity / Ludger Jansen
The ship of Theseus / Ludger Jansen
The problem of temporary intrinsics / Montserrat Bordes
A modern modal argument for the soul / Rafal Urbaniak and Agnieszka Rostalska
Epicurus' death is nothing to us argument / Steven Luper
Lucretius' symmetry argument / Nicolas Bommarito
The existence of forms : Plato's argument from the possibility of knowledge / Jurgis (George) Brakas
Plato, Aristotle, and the third man argument / Jurgis (George) Brakas
Logical monism / Luis Estrada-González
The maximality paradox / Nicola Ciprotti
An argument for free will / Gerald Harrison
Frankfurt's refutation of the principle of alternative possibilities / Gerald Harrison
Van Inwagen's consequence argument against compatibilism / Grant Sterling
Fatalism / Fernando Migura and Agustin Arrieta
Sartre's argument for freedom / Jeffrey Gordon
Descartes' Cogito / Joyce Lazier
Augustine's "Si fallor, sum" argument (if I am mistaken, I exist) / Brett Gaul
The Cartesian dreaming argument for external-world skepticism / Stephen Hetherington
The transparency of experience argument / Carlos Mario Muñoz-Suárez
The regress argument for skepticism / Scott Aikin
Moore's anti-skeptical arguments / Matthew Frise
The bias paradox / Deborah Heikes
Gettier's argument against the traditional account of knowledge / John M. DePoe
Putnam's argument against cultural imperialism / Maria Caamaño
Davidson on the very idea of a conceptual scheme / George Wrisley
Quine's two dogmas of empiricism / Robert Sinclair
Hume's problem of induction / James E. Taylor
Hume's negative argument concerning induction / Stefanie Rocknak
Argument by analogy in Thales and Anaximenes / Giannis Stamatellos
Quine's epistemology naturalized / Robert Sinclair
Sellars and the myth of the given / Willem A. deVries
Sellars' "Rylean myth" / Willem A. deVries
Aristotle and the argument to end all arguments / Toni Vogel Carey
Justice brings happiness in Plato's Republic / Joshua I. Weinstein
Aristotle's function argument / Sean McAleer
Aristotle's argument that goods are irreducible / Jurgis (George) Brakas
Aristotle's argument for perfectionism / Eric J. Silverman
Categorical imperative as the source for morality / Joyce Lazier
Kant on why autonomy deserves respect / Mark Piper
Mill's proof of utilitarianism / A.T. Fyfe
The experience machine objection to hedonism / Dan Weijers
The error theory argument / Robert L. Muhlnickel
Moore's open question argument / Bruno Verbeek
Wolff's argument for the rejection of state authority / Ben Saunders
Nozick's taxation is forced labor argument / Jason Waller
Charity is obligatory / Joakim Sandberg
The repugnant conclusion / Joakim Sandberg
Taurek on numbers don't count / Ben Saunders
Parfit's leveling down argument against egalitarianism / Ben Saunders
Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain argument / Fabian Wendt
Liberal feminism / Julinna C. Oxley
Moral status of animals from marginal cases / Julia Tanner
The ethical vegetarianism argument / Robert L. Muhlnickel
Thomson and the famous violinist / Leslie Burkholder
Marquis and the immorality of abortion / Leslie Burkholder
Tooley on abortion and infanticide / Ben Saunders
Rachels on euthanasia / Leslie Burkholder
Leibniz' argument for innate ideas / Byron Kaldis
Descartes' arguments for the mind-body distinction / Dale Jacquette
Princess Elisabeth and the mind-body problem / Jen McWeeny
Kripke's argument for mind-body property dualism / Dale Jacquette
The argument from mental causation for physicalism / Amir Horowitz
Davidson's argument for anomalous monism / Amir Horowitz
Putnam's multiple realization argument against type-physicalism / Amir Horowitz
The supervenience argument against non-reductive physicalism / Andrew Russo
Ryle's argument against Cartesian internalism / Agustin Arrieta and Fernando Migura
Jackson's knowledge argument / Amir Horowitz
Nagel's "what is it like to be a bat" argument against physicalism / Amy Kind
Chalmer's zombie argument / Amy Kind
The argument from revelation / Carlos Mario Muñoz-Suárez
Searle and the Chinese room argument / Leslie Burkholder
Sir Karl Popper's demarcation argument / Liz Stillwaggon Swan
Kuhn's incommensurability arguments / Liz Stillwaggon Swan and Michael Bruce
Putnam's no miracles argument / Liz Stillwaggon Swan
Galileo's falling bodies / Liz Stillwaggon Swan
Eliminative materialism / Charlotte Blease
Wittgenstein's private language argument / George Wrisley
Fodor's argument for linguistic nativism / Majid Amini
Fodor and the impossibility of learning / Majid Amini
Quine on the indeterminacy of translation / Robert Sinclair
Davidson's argument for the principle of charity / Maria Caamaño
Frege's argument for Platonism / Ivan Kasa
Mathematical Platonism / Nicolas Pain.
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