Philosophy through science fiction: a coursebook with readings
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| Umfang: | XII, 433 S. graph. Darst. |
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Contents
List of boxes
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
0
What is philosophy?
1
0.0
Science fiction and philosophy
1
0.1
Thought experiments
5
0.2
Areas of philosophy: value theory
7
0.3
Areas of philosophy: knowledge and reality
9
0.5
Summary
10
0.6
Bibliography and recommended reading
10
1
Philosophical method and philosophical disagreement
12
1.0
Logic and arguments
13
1.1
Fallacies
16
1.3
Truth and rationality
18
1.4
Relativism
22
1.5
The moral disagreement argument for relativism
24
1.6
The argument from tolerance for relativism
27
1.7
Reductìo ad
absurdum
argument against ethical relativism
30
1.8
Summary
31
1.9
About the readings
32
1.10
"Kirinyaga," by Michael Resnick
33
1.11
"The Ring of Gyges," from Plato's Republic
47
1.12
"On Trying Out One's New Sword," by Mary Midgley
49
1.13
Bibliography and recommended reading
54
2
Knowledge and skepticism
57
2.0
The concept of knowledge
58
2.1
Skepticism
63
2.2
Dream skepticism
67
2.3
Evil demon skepticism
69
2.4
Assessing the skeptical arguments
72
2.5
Foundationalism
74
2.6
Closure principles
77
2.7
Certainty and fallibilism
79
2.8
Summary
80
2.9
About the readings
81
2.10
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," by Philip K. Dick
82
2.11
"The Allegory of the Cave," from Plato's Republic
98
2.12
Meditations on First Philosophy (I and II), by
René
Descartes.
101
2.13
"The Simulation Argument and Simulation Hypotheses,"
by Alasdair Richmond
107
2.14
Bibliography and recommended reading
119
Religion and belief in God
123
3.0
The concept of God
124
3.1
A design argument for God's existence
126
3.2
Assessing the design argument for God's existence
129
3.4
The argument from evil
132
3.5
Assessing the argument from evil: if God does it, it is good
134
3.6
Assessing the argument from evil: evil for goodness' sake
137
3.7
Assessing the argument from evil: evil for freedom's sake
139
3.8
God's existence vs. knowledge of God's existence
142
3.9
Summary
145
3.10
About the readings
146
3.11
"Hell is the Absence of God," by Ted Chiang
147
3.12
"The Classical Ontological Argument for God's Existence," from
Saint Anselm's Proslogion
166
3.13
"Problems with the Design Argument," by David Hume
168
3.14
"Suffering, Evidence, and Analogy: Noseeum Arguments vs.
Skeptical Gambits," by Stephen Wykstra
174
3.15
Bibliography and recommended reading
188
Spacetime and time travel
193
4.0
Presentism
195
4.1
From presentism to four-dimensionalism
196
4.2
The Time Travelers hypothesis
200
4.3
The simple logical problem of time travel
202
4.4
The changing the past objection of time travel
204
4.5
The causal loop problem of time travel
206
4.6
Contemporary physics and time travel
209
4.7
Philosophers on absolute and relative space
212
4.8
Summary
215
4.9
About the readings
216
Contents
vu
4.10 "—All
You Zombies
—,"
by Robert
Heinlein 217
4.11
"Time Is Beyond the Understanding of Human Minds," from
Saint Augustine's Confessions
227
4.12
"Three Time Travel Problems," by Franz Kiekeben
229
4.13
Bibliography and recommended reading
239
5
Mind
244
5.0
The mind: what it does
245
5.1
The mind: what it is
—
the substance dualist answer
249
5.2
The conceivability argument for dualism
250
5.3
Assessing dualism: causal interaction
252
5.4
The mind: what it is
—
the physicalist answer
255
5.5
Type identity theory
257
5.6
Functionalism
260
5.7
Artificial intelligence
262
5.8
Problems with physicalism: the knowledge argument
266
5.9
Summary
270
5.10
About the readings
270
5.11
"Truncat," by Cory Doctorow
271
5.12
Meditations on First Philosophy (II and VI) and Discourse on
Method (V) (excerpt), by
René
Descartes
284
5.13
"Minds, Brains, and Programs," by John R. Searle
293
5.14
Bibliography and recommended reading
297
6
Personal identity
301
6.0
Identity
302
6.1
The body theory
306
6.2
The memory theory
310
6.3
The psychological continuity theory
313
6.4
The bundle theory
317
6.5
Summary
319
6.6
About the readings
320
6.7
"Learning to Be Me," by Greg Egan
321
6.8
"The Psychological Continuity Theory," by John Locke
333
6.9
"Of Personal Identity," by Joseph Butler
337
6.10
"Was I Ever a Fetus?" by Eric T.Olson
339
6.11
Bibliography and recommended reading
349
7
Free will
353
7.0
Introducing the alternative theories
355
7.1
Principle of alternative possibilities
358
7.2
Iibertarianism
359
7.3
Assessing Iibertarianism
361
viii contents
7.4
Determinism
7.5
Assessing
determinism
7.6
Compatíbilism
and senses of "can"
7.7
Hierarchical
compatíbilism
7.8
Assessing
compatíbilism
7.9
Summary
7.10
About the readings
7.11
"Norbert
and the System," by
Timons
Esaias
7.12
"OnBehalf of Determinism," by Thomas Hobbes
7.13
"Free Will: Alternatives and Sources," by Kevin Timpe
7.14
Bibliography and recommended reading
Afterword
Glossary
Notes
References
Credits
Index
363
369
372
375
377
379
380
380
393
397
409
412
413
422
426
430
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