Steven Scott Aspenson

The Philosopher's Tool Kit (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A concise introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the conceptual tools necessary to understand, analyze, criticize, and construct arguments: as well as to the philosophical mainstays of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315292922
• Artikelnr.: 49335320

Autorenporträt

Steven Scott Aspenson

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Categories, Classification and Definition: Categories;
Classification; Definition; Essential Terms of Metaphysics. Part 2
Assessing Claims: Necessary Truths - Analytic Truths, Logical Truths,
Necessary-Synthetic Truths; Contingent Truths - Synthetic Truths, Truths of
Natural Law; Essential Terms of Epistemology. Part 3 Assessing Inferences:
Deductive Inferences - Analytic, Logical/Categorical, Necessary-Synthetic
Transcendental, Completely Enumerative; Inductive Inferences - Relative
Frequency, Sui-Generis Making-Probable Relation, Incompletely Enumerative,
Causal/Lawful Regularity; Abductive Inference; Essential Terms of
Epistemology. Part 4 Philosophical Analysis: Kinds of Analysis - Same and
New-Level Analysis; Tools of Analysis - the Negative Way, Abstraction and
Precision, Distinction and Principled Distinction Thought-Experiments;
Essential Terms of Philosophical Analysis. Part 5 Philosophical Writing:
Criticize, Understand, Then Write; Be Negative at First; Identify
Philosophical Commitments of Your View; Distinguo! Using Latin and Special
Terms; Special Terms for Writing Philosophy.