IVP - Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult

Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult

A Beginner's Guide to Life's Big Questions

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By Garrett J. DeWeese
 and J. P. Moreland

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Length: 171 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: October 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8308-2766-4
IVP Order Code: 2766

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Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Where Do I Start?
      Logic
      Method
      Philosophy and Theology
2. What Is Real?
      Metaphysics
      Getting Started
      The Problem of Universals
      Identity
      Substances, Essences and Natures
      Modality: The Necessary, the Possible and the Actual
3. How Do I Know?
      Epistemology
      Kinds of Knowledge
      What Is Knowledge?
      The Problem of Skepticism
      Concluding Applications
4. How Should I Live?
      Ethics
      Metaethics
      Normative Ethics
      Why Be Moral?
5. What Am I?
      Philosophical and Theological Anthropology
      Philosophy of Mind
      Consciousness and Property Dualism
      The Self and Substance Dualism
      Objections to Dualism
      A Critique of Physicalist Alternatives to Dualism
      Freedom and Determinism
      Theological Implications of the Free Will Debate
6. How Should Christians Think About Science?
      Philosophy of Science
      Where Do We Go for Help?
      She Blinded Me with Science (Scientism)
      Theistic Science and Methodological Naturalism
      The Realism/Antirealism Debate
      Models for Integrating Science and Theology
7. Where Do I Go From Here?
      Worldview Struggle and Intellectual Crisis
      Worldview Struggle and Intellectual Crisis
      Saving the Soul and Saving the Mind
For Further Reading
Notes
Subject Index
Scripture Index

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