Big Questions of Philosophy

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Call Number: DVD 190 Jo Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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36 lectures ; 30 minutes per lecture.
How do we do philosophy? -- Why should we trust reason? -- How do we reason carefully? -- How do we find the best explanation? -- What is truth? -- Is knowledge possible? -- What is the best way to gain knowledge? -- Do we know what knowledge is? -- When can we trust testimony? -- Can mystical experience justify belief? -- Is faith ever rational? -- Why is there something rather than nothing? -- What is god like? -- How could god allow moral evil? -- Why would God cause natural evil? -- Are freedom and foreknowledge compatible? -- Do our souls make us free? -- What does it mean to be free? -- What preserves personal identity? -- Are persons mere minds? -- Are persons just bodies? -- Are you really you? -- How does the brain produce the mind? -- What do minds do, if anything? -- Could machines think? -- Does God define the good? -- Does happiness define the good? --Does reason define the good? -- How ought we to live? -- Why bother being good? -- Should governement exist? -- What justifies a government? -- How big should government be? -- What are the limits of liberty? -- What makes a society fair or just? -- What is the meaning of life?
Lectured by: David K. Johnson.
"Learn to think clearly, shun fallacies, and reach your own conclusions as you confront the questions that have puzzled generations of philosophers" -- cover.
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