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Appiah Kwame Anthony. Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy. Oxford University Press,2003. — 425 p.. 2003

You learn a lot about your subject when you set out to introduce the range of it to people who are approaching it for the first time. That is a good part of the reason I set out to write an introduction to con­temporary philosophy. After a while, as you do the detailed work of professional research, you risk losing sight of the forest for the trees. Stepping back for a bit, to think again about the shape of the subject and where your own work fits into it, allows you not just to redis­cover connections but also to make new ones. That is why under­graduate teaching is so invigorating.

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chapter 1 Mindstyle='font-variant:normal !important;text-transform:uppercase'>
What is a mind?
Could we make a machine with a mind?
What is the relationship between minds and bodies
CHAPTER 2 Knowledge
What is knowledge?
How can we justify our claims to knowledge
What can we know?
chapter ç Language
What is meaning?
How does language relate to reality?
How do written and spoken words express thoughts
CHAPTER 4 Science
What makes an explanation scientific?
How can we justify scientific theories?
What is a law of nature?
CHAPTER 5 Morality
What do moral judgments mean? How can we tell what is right?
When, if ever, is it right to kill someone
chapter 6 Politics
What is a state?
Do governments have a right to be obeyed?
What is justice?
CHAPTER 7 Law
What is a law?
When should we obey the law?
When is punishment morally justified.
CHAPTER 8 Metaphysics
What is existence?
Do numbers exist?
Does God exist?
Is God’s existence a necessary truth?
CHAPTER 9 Philosophy
How does formal philosophy differ from folk philosophy? Or from religion and science?
Can there be equally adequate but incompatible ways of conceptualizing the world? Do we have free will?

Books and textbooks on the discipline Contemporary philosophical research:

  1. Axelos K.. The Game of the World. Edinburgh University Press,2023. — 440 p. - 2023 ãîä
  2. Alexander J.. Experimental Philosophy: An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press,2021. — 186 p. - 2021 ãîä
  3. Barfield Raymond C.. The Poetic Apriori: Philosophical Imagination in a Meaningful Universe. Ibidem Press,2020. — 172 p. - 2020 ãîä
  4. Bacon Andrew. Vagueness and Thought. Oxford University Press,2018. — 361 p. — (Oxford Philosophical Monographs) - 2018 ãîä
  5. Agassi Joseph, Meidan Abraham. Philosophy from a Skeptical Perspective. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press,2008. — 180 p. - 2008 ãîä