Philippine Christian University

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Foundations -- The source of everything -- Cosmic origins -- Sacred geometry -- All is flux -- All is one -- Zeno's paradoxes -- Elements and forces -- Immortal seeds -- Atomic theory -- Examining ideas -- Platonic realms -- Plato's allegory of the cave -- One world only -- Form is function -- An Earth-centered cosmos -- Purposes in nature -- Scholastic philosophy -- Transubstantiation -- Occam's razor -- The Scientific Revolution -- Doubting the world -- Mind and body -- The body as a machine -- The one substance -- The blank slate -- An infinity of minds -- Facts and ideas -- Shaping the world with the mind -- Kinds of truth -- Reality as a process -- The end of history -- Class conflict in history -- Useful truths -- The value of truth -- Ideas as tools -- Analytic Philosophy -- What does a word mean? -- Russell's theory of descriptions -- Picturing the world -- Meaning and observation -- Dispensing with metaphysics -- A private langauge is impossible -- Wittgenstein's langauge-games -- Science and falsification -- The nature of scientific truth -- Word as actions -- Scientific revolutions -- Points of view -- Feminist epistomology -- Continental Philosophy -- Objects in the mind -- Phenomenology -- Time consciousness -- What is it like to be human? -- Life before death -- Freedom and identity -- The "other" -- Gender identity -- The lived body -- Critical theory -- Power plays -- Deconstruction -- Feminist postmodernism -- Philosophy of Mind -- Dualism -- The limits of language -- Behaviourism -- The mind-brain identity theory -- Eliminative materialism -- Functionalism -- Biological naturalism -- Panpsychism -- The nature of the body -- Right and Wrong -- Rules and principles -- Ethics and the law -- Free will? -- Do we have moral knowledge? -- Does moral truth exist? -- The fact-value distinstion -- Aristotle's virtue ethics -- Humean ethics -- Deontology -- Utilitarianism -- Existentialist ethics -- Animal rights -- Euthanasia -- Cloning -- Political Philosophy -- Who should rule? -- Justifying absolute rule -- Government by the people -- Popular soverreignty -- How are property rights justified? -- Consent and obligation -- What rights shloud people enjoy? -- Kinds of liberty -- Should rights be limited? -- How should we manage change? -- To work is human nature -- Making more objective political decisions -- Perspectivism and politics -- A just war? -- Women and patriarchy -- Logic -- Rationality -- Recognizing arguments -- Analysing arguments -- Evaluating arguments -- Deductive arguments -- Inductive arguments -- Fallacies -- Formal logic