The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods, 2nd Edition
by Julian Baggini (Editor and co-founder of The Philosophers' Magazine); Peter S. Fosl (Transylvania University, Kentucky, USA )Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2010-02-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection Features significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophy This edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both continental philosophy and the history of philosophy, as well as analytic philosophy Explains difficult concepts in an easily accessible manner, and addresses the use and application of these concepts Proven useful to philosophy students at both beginning and advanced levels
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Basic Tools for Argument | |
| Arguments, premises and conclusions | |
| Deduction | |
| Induction | |
| Validity and soundness | |
| Invalidity | |
| Consistency | |
| Fallacies | |
| Refutation | |
| Axioms | |
| Definitions | |
| Certainty and probability | |
| Tautologies, self-contradictions and the law of non-contradiction | |
| More Advanced Tools | |
| Abduction | |
| Hypothetico-deductive method | |
| Dialectic | |
| Analogies | |
| Anomalies and exceptions that prove the rule | |
| Intuition pumps | |
| Logical constructions | |
| Reduction | |
| Thought experiments | |
| Useful fictions | |
| Tools for Assessment | |
| Alternative explanations | |
| Ambiguity | |
| Bivalence and the excluded middle | |
| Category mistakes | |
| Ceteris paribus | |
| Circularity | |
| Conceptual incoherence | |
| Counterexamples | |
| Criteria | |
| Error theory | |
| False dichotomy | |
| False cause | |
| Genetic fallacy | |
| Horned dilemmas | |
| Is/ought gap | |
| Masked man fallacy | |
| Partners in guilt | |
| Principle of charity | |
| Question-begging | |
| Reductios | |
| Redundancy | |
| Regresses | |
| Saving the phenomena | |
| Self-defeating arguments | |
| Sufficient reason | |
| Testability | |
| Tools for Conceptual Distinctions | |
| A priori / a posteriori | |
| Absolute/relative | |
| Analytic/synthetic | |
| Categorical/modal | |
| Conditional/biconditional | |
| De re/de dicto | |
| Defeasible/indefeasible | |
| Entailment/implication | |
| Essence/accident | |
| Internalism/externalism | |
| Knowledge by acquaintance/description | |
| Necessary/contingent | |
| Necessary/sufficient | |
| Objective/subjective | |
| Realist/non-realist | |
| Sense/reference | |
| Syntax/semantics | |
| Thick/thin concepts | |
| Types/tokens | |
| Tools of Historical Schools and Philosophers | |
| Aphorism, fragment, remark | |
| Categories and specific differences | |
| Elenchus and aporia | |
| Hume's fork | |
| Indirect discourse | |
| Leibniz's law of identity | |
| Ockham's razor | |
| Phenomenological method(s) | |
| Signs and signifiers | |
| Transcendental argument | |
| Tools for Radical Critique | |
| Class critique | |
| Deconstruction and the critique of presence | |
| Empiricist critique of metaphysics | |
| Feminist critique | |
| Foucaultian critique of power | |
| Heideggerian critique of metaphysics | |
| Lacanian critique | |
| Critiques of naturalism | |
| Nietzschean critique of Christian-Platonic culture | |
| Pragmatist critique | |
| Sartrean critique of 'bad faith' | |
| Tools at the Limit | |
| Basic beliefs | |
| Gödel and incompleteness | |
| Philosophy and/as art | |
| Mystical experience and revelation | |
| Paradoxes | |
| Possibility and impossibility | |
| Primitives | |
| Self-evident truths | |
| Scepticism | |
| Underdetermination | |
| Internet Resources for Philosophers | |
| Index | |
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