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Have you ever laid awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world' Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master' If so, you are not alone'and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and other ones like it have been the stuff of philosophical rumination from Plato to Popper. In a series of accessible and engagingly written essays, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day.;The brain in a vat -- Plato's cave -- The veil of perception -- Cogito ergo sum -- Reason and experience -- The tripartite theory of knowledge -- The mind-body problem -- What is it like to be a bat? -- The Turing test -- The ship of Theseus -- Other minds -- Hume's guillotine -- One man's meat ... -- The divine command theory -- The boo/hoorah theory -- Ends and means -- The experience machine -- The categorical imperative -- The golden rule -- Acts and omissions -- Slippery slopes -- Beyo

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Author

Dupre, Ben

Publisher

Quercus NA

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781623651893

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

3.71 / 5 (747 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13