ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1977
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

ALFRED JULES AYER

THE CENTRAL QUESTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY

Izdavač - Penguin Books, Harmondsworth

Godina - 1977

246 strana

18 cm

Edicija - Pelican Books

Povez - Broširan

Stanje - Kao na slici, ima potpis prethodnog vlasnika na predlistu, tekst bez podvlačenja



SADRŽAJ:
Preface

I THE CLAIMS OF METAPHYSICS
A Philosophy and Science
B Evaluation of Mystical Experience
C Appearance and Reality:
Some Metaphysical Positions
D Time and Motion:
Some Metaphysical Arguments

II MEANING AND COMMON SENSE
A The Verification Principle
B The Criterion of Falsifiability
C Meaning and Use
D The Claims of Common Sense

III PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
A Formal Analyses
B Logical Grammar
C Analyses of Ordinary Usage
D Looking at the Facts
E The Theory of Knowledge

IV THE PROBLEM OF PERCEPTION
A What do we Perceive?
B The Argument from Illusion
C The Causal Theory of Perception

V CONSTRUCTION OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD
A The Elements
B The Question of Privacy
C Outline of the Construction
D Phenomenalism
E Common Sense and Physics

VI BODY AND MIND
A Persons and their Experiences
B Are There Mental Substances?
C Vagaries of Personal Identity
D Physicalism
E One`s Knowledge of Other Minds

VII FACTS AND EXPLANATIONS
A The Problem of Induction
B The Primary System
C Necessity and Law
D Theory and Observation

VIII ORDER AND CHANCE
A The Uniformity of Nature
B Statements of Probability
1 The Calculus of Chances
2 The Frequency Theory
3 The Logical Theory and Statements of Credibility
C The Problem of Confirmation
D Cause and Effect

IX LOGIC AND EXISTENCE
A The Laws of Logic
1 The Propositional Calculus
2 Predicate-Logic and the Theory of Descriptions
3 Set-Theory and the Theory of Types
4 Semantic Necessities
5 Identity
B Analyticity
C The Existence of Abstract Entities

X THE CLAIMS OF THEOLOGY
A The Existence of God
B The Argument from Design
C Religious Hypotheses
D Religion and Morality
E The Freedom of the Will
F The Meaning of Life
Index



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