文档介绍：Thinking It Through:
An Introduction to
Contemporary
Philosophy
Kwame Anthony Appiah
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Thinking It Through
Thinking It Through
AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY
PHILOSOPHY
Kwame Anthony Appiah
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CONT ENT S
Preface ix
Introduction: A Few Preliminaries xi
CHAPTER 1: MIND 1
Introduction. 1. Descartes: The beginnings of modern philosophy of
mind. 5. The private-language argument. 12. as models of
the mind. 19. Why should there be a functionalist theory? 22.
Functionalism: A first problem. 23. A simple-minded functionalist
theory of pain. 25. Ramsey’s solution to the first problem. 26.
Functionalism: A second problem. 28. M again. 29. Consciousness.
31. The puzzle of the physical. 36. Conclusion. 37.
CHAPTER 2: KNOWLEDGE 39
Introduction. 39. Plato: Knowledge as justified true belief. 41.
Descartes’ way: Justification requires certainty. 44. Locke’s way:
Justification can be less than certain. 53. The foundations of knowledge. 57.
Ways around skepticism I: V