Green Mitchell S <br/><br/>
Engaging philosophy :  a brief introduction / 
Mitchell S. Green. 
 - Indianapolis, IN :  Hackett Pub. Co.,  c2006. 
 - xi, 164 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Reasoning: truth and prudence -- Grounds for belief -- What is an argument? -- Fallacies of theoretical rationality -- What is practical reasoning? -- Fallacies of practical rationality -- The greatest conceivable being -- Theological arguments -- Atheological arguments -- Right and wrong -- Ethical egoism -- Utilitarianism -- Critiques of utilitarianism -- Intermission : moral relativism -- Kantian ethics -- The matter of minds -- Plato's tripartite soul -- Descartes' division -- La Mettrie and machines -- Ryle and the category mistake -- The identity theory -- Minds as computers -- Consciousness --  Are you free? -- Universal determinism and its challenge to freedom -- Does quantum mechanics save freedom? -- Hume's compatibilism -- Libertarian critiques of Hume -- Hard determinism and the illusion of freedom -- Is conscious will an illusion? -- Freedom of will -- What is a person? -- Synnchronic and diachronic questions of identity -- Synchronic identity -- Memory links and identity over time -- Bodily continuity and identity over time. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0872207978 (cloth : alk. paper) 087220796X (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Philosophy--Introductions
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BD21 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>100