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Informationen zum Autor Michael Bruce currently researches in the history of philosophy. He has taught philosophy and mathematics courses at the University of Washington's Robinson Center for Young Scholars. Steven Barbone is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. Klappentext Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with premises, conclusions and logical form plainly identified. Key quotations provide a sense of style and approach. Just the Arguments is an invaluable one-stop argument shop.* A concise, formally structured summation of 100 of the most important arguments in Western philosophy* The first book of its kind to present the most important and influential philosophical arguments in a clear premise/conclusion format, the language that philosophers use and students are expected to know* Offers succinct expositions of key philosophical arguments without bogging them down in commentary* Translates difficult texts to core arguments* Designed to provides a quick and compact reference to everything from Aquinas' "Five Ways" to prove the existence of God, to the metaphysical possibilities of a zombie world* Visit www.justthearguments.com, the editor's site for students, teachers, researchers, and fans of philosophy Zusammenfassung Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through notoriously dense and verbose philosophical prose, this book sets 100 famous and influential arguments in context, including key quotations, to provide a sense of style and approach. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: Show Me the Arguments 1 Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone Part I Philosophy of Religion 7 1 Aquinas' Five Ways 9 Timothy J. Pawl 2 The Contingency Cosmological Argument 18 Mark T. Nelson 3 The Kalam Argument for the Existence of God 22 Harry Lesser 4 The Ontological Argument 25 Sara L. Uckelman 5 Pascal's Wager 28 Leslie Burkholder 6 James' Will to Believe Argument 32 A. T. Fyfe 7 The Problem of Evil 35 Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone 8 The Free Will Defense to the Problem of Evil 37 Grant Sterling 9 St. Anselm on Free Choice and the Power to Sin 40 Julia Hermann 10 Hume's Argument against Miracles 44 Tommaso Piazza 11 The Euthyphro Dilemma 49 David Baggett 12 Nietzsche's Death of God 52 Tom Grimwood 13 Ockham's Razor 57 Grant Sterling Part II Metaphysics 59 14 Parmenides' Refutation of Change 61 Adrian Bardon 15 McTaggart's Argument against the Reality of Time 64 M. Joshua Mozersky 16 Berkeley's Master Argument for Idealism 68 John M. DePoe 17 Kant's Refutation of Idealism 70 Adrian Bardon 18 The Master Argument of Diodorus Cronus 73 Ludger Jansen 19 Lewis' Argument for Possible Worlds 76 David Vander Laan 20 A Reductionist Account of Personal Identity 79 Fauve Lybaert 21 Split-Case Arguments about Personal Identity 86 Ludger Jansen 22 The Ship of Theseus 88 Ludger Jansen 23 The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics 90 Montserrat Bordes 24 A Modern Modal Argument for the Soul 93 Rafal Urbaniak and Agnieszka Rostalska 25 Two Arguments for the Harmlessness of Death 99
