助教: 張峰賓

課程大綱：
介紹並討論哲學的基本課題、概念、方法和哲學家。依照教材的章節進行討論。並且討論人生的意義。助教帶領學生討論Bertrand Arthur William Russell, (1872-1970)《哲學問題》
第一學期
1. Language and reality-what is philosophical questions? Verbal issues-words and things, definitions and meaning
2. What can we know?
a. What is knowing?-belief, truth and evidence
b. The sources of knowledge-reason, the `laws of thought` and experience
3. What is the world like?
a. Common-sense realism b. Berkeley`s idealism
c. Phenomenalism d. The attack on Foundations
4. The way the world works-scientific knowledge
a. Laws of nature b. Explanation c. Theories d. Possibility
e. The problem of induction
第二學期
5. What is and what must be-Freedom and necessity
a. Mathematics b. Kant and the synthetic a priori c. Causality
d. Determinism and freedom
6. What am I?-Mind and body
7. What else is there?-Philosophy of religion
a. Religious experience b. Arguments for the existence of God
c. Anthropomorphism and mysticism
8. The is and the ought-Problems in Ethics
a. Meta-ethics b. The good c. Theories of conduct

教材：
1. John Hospers. An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. 4th edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997
2. Plato, Apology 在第二學期討論。
3. 《哲學概論講義》
4. Bertrand Russell, Problem of Philosophy 在討論課中助教帶選課學生討論本書。

計分方式：期中與期末考試成績70%和參與的表現30%