Heads Up Philosophy

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Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Is there a God? Heads Up Philosophy, part of an exciting new series for young adults, explains and explores all these big ideas and more. What is philosophy? It's the issues and theories that are most intriguing and relevant to curious teen minds—questions like what are knowledge, identity, human nature, right and wrong, faith, freedom, and justice? Combining lively text with cool, graphic illustrations, this book is designed to provoke, entertain, and stimulate young minds. 04 Contents......Page 6 06 What is PHILOSOPHY?......Page 8 08 What do PHILOSOPHERS DO?......Page 10 12 The NEED to KNOW......Page 14 14 How do you KNOW that?......Page 16 16 Where did you get that IDEA?......Page 18 18 Don’t trust your SENSES......Page 20 20 Knowledge comes from REASONING......Page 22 22 Biography: DAVID HUME......Page 24 24 We learn from EXPERIENCE......Page 26 26 Take NOTHING for granted......Page 28 28 BELIEVING is not the same as KNOWING......Page 30 30 Biography: IMMANUEL KANT......Page 32 32 You can NEVER know it ALL......Page 34 34 Do we ever really know the TRUTH?......Page 36 36 Philosophy and knowledge IN PRACTICE......Page 38 40 What is the UNIVERSE made of?......Page 42 42 Is there a STRUCTURE to the universe?......Page 44 44 What is REAL?......Page 46 46 Is the world we know an ILLUSION?......Page 48 48 Biography: PLATO......Page 50 50 How do you know......Page 52 52 Is there a GOD?......Page 54 54 SCIENCE doesn’t have all the answers......Page 56 56 Biography: THOMAS AQUINAS......Page 58 58 What is TIME?......Page 60 60 What’s the point of my EXISTENCE?......Page 62 62 Metaphysics IN PRACTICE......Page 64 66 Is there such a thing as an IMMORTAL soul?......Page 68 68 Is your MIND separate from your BODY?......Page 70 70 What is CONSCIOUSNESS?......Page 72 72 Biography: RENÉ DESCARTES......Page 74 74 ANIMALS have thoughts and feelings, too......Page 76 76 Do you FEEL like I do?......Page 78 78 What MAKES you YOU?......Page 80 80 Biography: THOMAS HOBBES......Page 82 82 Can COMPUTERS think?......Page 84 84 Can science explain how our MINDS WORK?......Page 86 86 Philosophy of mind IN PRACTICE......Page 88 90 True or false? PROVE IT…......Page 92 92 What is a LOGICAL ARGUMENT?......Page 94 94 Are there different kinds of TRUTH?......Page 96 96 Biography: ARISTOTLE......Page 98 98 What makes a GOOD ARGUMENT?......Page 100 100 What’s LOGIC got to do with science?......Page 102 102 Can we TRUST what SCIENCE tells us?......Page 104 104 Just use COMMON SENSE!......Page 106 106 Biography: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN......Page 108 108 What can LOGIC tell us?......Page 110 110 There must be a LOGICAL explanation......Page 112 112 Are REASON and FAITH compatible?......Page 114 114 Logic IN PRACTICE......Page 116 118 There’s no such thing as GOOD and BAD......Page 120 120 What is a GOOD LIFE?......Page 122 122 Biography: SOCRATES......Page 124 124 RIGHT and WRONG: It’s all relative…......Page 126 126 Do the ends JUSTIFY the means?......Page 128 128 What kind of SOCIETY do you want to live in?......Page 130 130 Biography: HANNAH ARENDT......Page 132 132 What makes a society CIVILIZED?......Page 134 134 Is it possible to have FREEDOM and JUSTICE?......Page 136 136 We don’t have EQUAL rights......Page 138 138 Biography: SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR......Page 140 140 What’s GOD got to do with it?......Page 142 142 Are we playing GOD?......Page 144 144 What is ART?......Page 146 146 Moral and political philosophy IN PRACTICE......Page 148 148 Directory of philosophers......Page 150 153 Glossary......Page 155 156 Index and acknowledgments......Page 158