Philosophy Textbooks
Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion
Copyright Year: 2020
Contributors: Branson and Hendricks
Publisher: Rebus Community
License: CC BY
Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion introduces some of the major traditional arguments for and against the existence of God, as well as some less well-known, but thought-provoking arguments for the existence of God, and one of the most important new challenges to religious belief from the Cognitive Science of Religion. An introductory chapter traces the connection between philosophy and religion throughout Western history, and a final chapter addresses the place of non-Western and non-monotheistic religions within contemporary philosophy of religion.
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Introduction to Philosophy: Logic
Copyright Year: 2020
Contributors: Martin and Hendricks
Publisher: Rebus Community
License: CC BY
Introduction to Philosophy: Logic provides students with the concepts and skills necessary to identify and evaluate arguments effectively. The chapters, all written by experts in the field, provide an overview of what arguments are, the different types of arguments one can expect to encounter in both philosophy and everyday life, and how to recognise common argumentative mistakes.
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Plato's 'Republic': An Introduction
Copyright Year: 2020
Contributor: McAleer
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
License: CC BY
This book is a lucid and accessible companion to Plato’s Republic, throwing light upon the text’s arguments and main themes, placing them in the wider context of the text’s structure. In its illumination of the philosophical ideas underpinning the work, it provides readers with an understanding and appreciation of the complexity and literary artistry of Plato’s Republic. McAleer not only unpacks the key overarching questions of the text – What is justice? And Is a just life happier than an unjust life? – but also highlights some fascinating, overlooked passages which contribute to our understanding of Plato’s philosophical thought.
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A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues - Second edition, revised and updated
Copyright Year: 1999
Contributor: Wilson
Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
License: CC BY-NC
A Guide to Good Reasoning has been described by reviewers as “far superior to any other critical reasoning text.” It shows with both wit and philosophical care how students can become good at everyday reasoning. It starts with attitude—with alertness to judgmental heuristics and with the cultivation of intellectual virtues. From there it develops a system for skillfully clarifying and evaluating arguments, according to four standards—whether the premises fit the world, whether the conclusion fits the premises, whether the argument fits the conversation, and whether it is possible to tell.
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Philosophical Ethics
Copyright Year: 2020
Contributor: Matthews
Publisher: George W. Matthews
License: CC BY-SA
This book is an introduction to philosophical ethics intended for use in introductory college or high school level courses. It has grown out of lecture notes I shared with the first students who took my online Ethics course at the Pennsylvania College of Technology almost 20 years ago. Since then it has seen more development in a variety of forms – starting out as a pdf document, and then evolving into a static set of WordPress pages and finally now as a book written in bookdown and hosted at GitHub. This text represents my attempt to scratch a couple of itches. The first is my wanting a presentation of the major philosophical approaches to ethics that I can actually agree with and that is integrated into my overall teaching method. I tend to teach philosophy to beginners and so there is a fair amount of discussion of the tools used by philosophers and of the ways in which their approach differs from that of their colleagues in other disciplines.
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Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributors: Matthews and Hendricks
Publisher: Rebus Community
License: CC BY
We often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others’ behavior and choices.
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Responsible Innovation: Ethics, Safety and Technology
Copyright Year: 2019
Contributor: Kormelink
Publisher: TU Delft Open
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This textbook is based on the MOOC Responsible Innovation offered by the TU Delft. It provides a framework to reflect on the ethics and risks of new technologies. How can we make sure that innovations do justice to social and ethical values? How can we minimize (unknown)risks?
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Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind
Copyright Year: 2019
Publisher: Rebus Community
License: CC BY
Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind surveys the central themes in philosophy of mind and places them in a historical and contemporary context intended to engage first-time readers in the field. It focuses on debates about the status and character of the mind and its seemingly subjective nature in an apparently more objective world.
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Logical Reasoning
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributor: Dowden
Publisher: Bradley H. Dowden
License: CC BY-NC-SA
The goal of this book is to improve your logical-reasoning skills. These skills are also called "critical thinking skills." They are a complex weave of abilities that help you get someone's point, generate reasons for your own point, evaluate the reasons given by others, decide what or what not to do, decide what information to accept or reject, explain a complicated idea, apply conscious quality control as you think, and resist propaganda. Your most important critical thinking skill is your skill at making judgments─not snap judgments that occur in the blink of an eye, but those that require careful reasoning.
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Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributor: Wilson
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
License: CC BY
Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’
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