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Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult: A Beginner’s Guide to Life’s Big Questions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Philosophy is for everyone. We think philosophically whenever we ask life’s big questions: • What is real? • How do we know what we know? • What is the right thing to do? • What does it mean to be human? • How should we view science and its claims? • Why should we believe that God exists? Philosophy is thinking critically about questions that matter. But many people find...

“Jones claims that the war in Iraq does not meet the criteria for a just war. Does Jones want us to believe that the terrorists care about just war theory? Does he expect us to stop checking for weapons at airports, to bring home all our military forces and to wait, cringing, for the next attack?” There are a number of other informal fallacies that we’ll name but not illustrate. They include hasty generalization, false cause, slippery slope, weak analogy, and complex question. (Details can be found
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