What's the Difference? Philosophy
150 Key Concepts in Philosophy
Published on 25. March 2025
160 pages
978-0-7112-9888-0 (ISBN)
Description
What's the difference between sarcasm and irony? Or nihilism and fatalism? Or sex and gender?
This book is part of a new series and a brand-new approach to popular reference based on the question, 'What's the difference?'.
Inside, there are crystal-clear explanations of 150 paired words that build into a wide-ranging philosophy primer. Philosophical concepts are explored in pairs to help clarify common (and not-so-common) confusions. Exploring two definitions at the same time cuts to the heart of a topic quickly and clearly so you can avoid those all too frequent conceptual slip-ups.
This book helps you to define your terms so you can tell the difference between a chatterbox and a brainbox, a sophist and a sage, and crucially a well-informed argument and a sloppy debate.
This book is part of a new series and a brand-new approach to popular reference based on the question, 'What's the difference?'.
Inside, there are crystal-clear explanations of 150 paired words that build into a wide-ranging philosophy primer. Philosophical concepts are explored in pairs to help clarify common (and not-so-common) confusions. Exploring two definitions at the same time cuts to the heart of a topic quickly and clearly so you can avoid those all too frequent conceptual slip-ups.
This book helps you to define your terms so you can tell the difference between a chatterbox and a brainbox, a sophist and a sage, and crucially a well-informed argument and a sloppy debate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
File size
14,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7112-9888-0 (9780711298880)
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03/2025
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Adam Ferner has worked in academic philosophy in France and the UK, as well as in schools, youth centres and other alternative learning spaces. He has written three books - Organisms and Personal Identity (Routledge, 2016), Think Differently (White Lion Publishing, 2018) and, with Nadia Mehdi and Zara Bain, Crash Course: Philosophy (Ivy, 2019) - and has been published widely in philosophical and popular journals. Adam is an associate editor of the Forum's Essays, and a member of the Changelings, a North London fiction collaboration.
Content
introduction
how to use this book
identity
knowledge
belief
imply
infer
false
wrong
rational
reasonable
infinity
eternity
equality
equity
effect
affect
pleasure
happiness
biological
natural
empathy
sympathy
emotion
mood
sarcasm
irony
lust
love
instinct
intuition
sex
gender
morality
ethics
privilege
power
race
ethnicity
doing good
being good
liberal
liberalism
sexism
misogyny
prejudice
racism
oppression
domination
rote
rite
scepticism
suspicion
qualitative identity
quantitative identify
induction
deduction
essential
intrinsic
contradiction
paradox
ideology
hegemony
empiricism
rationalism
existence
subsistence
validity
soundness
prescriptive
descriptive
subjective
objective
accidental
contingent
a priori
a posteriori
substratum
substance
analysis
analytic
nihilism
fatalism
consciousness
self-consciousness
identity politics
intersectionality
communism
socialism
is
ought
scientific
scientistic
capitalism
neo-liberalism
pessimism
cynicism
autocracy
totalitarianism
synthetic
artificial
realism
relativism
know-how
know-that
postmodernism
poststructuralism
animism
animalism
ontology
medical ontology
conjunction
disjunction
phenomenology
existentialism
aesthetic
ascetic
semantics
hermeneutics
materialism
physicalism
behaviourism
behaviouralism
intention
intentionality
inderterminism
incompatibilism
transhumanism
posthumanism
normal
normative
double consciousness
consciousness raising
gnostic
agnostic
particle theory
particularism
idealism
solipsism
genetic fallacy
genealogy
autonomy
agency
inescapability
overridingness
rhetoric
dialectics
emergentism
epiphenomenalism
'philosophy'
philosophy
movers and shakers
index
how to use this book
identity
knowledge
belief
imply
infer
false
wrong
rational
reasonable
infinity
eternity
equality
equity
effect
affect
pleasure
happiness
biological
natural
empathy
sympathy
emotion
mood
sarcasm
irony
lust
love
instinct
intuition
sex
gender
morality
ethics
privilege
power
race
ethnicity
doing good
being good
liberal
liberalism
sexism
misogyny
prejudice
racism
oppression
domination
rote
rite
scepticism
suspicion
qualitative identity
quantitative identify
induction
deduction
essential
intrinsic
contradiction
paradox
ideology
hegemony
empiricism
rationalism
existence
subsistence
validity
soundness
prescriptive
descriptive
subjective
objective
accidental
contingent
a priori
a posteriori
substratum
substance
analysis
analytic
nihilism
fatalism
consciousness
self-consciousness
identity politics
intersectionality
communism
socialism
is
ought
scientific
scientistic
capitalism
neo-liberalism
pessimism
cynicism
autocracy
totalitarianism
synthetic
artificial
realism
relativism
know-how
know-that
postmodernism
poststructuralism
animism
animalism
ontology
medical ontology
conjunction
disjunction
phenomenology
existentialism
aesthetic
ascetic
semantics
hermeneutics
materialism
physicalism
behaviourism
behaviouralism
intention
intentionality
inderterminism
incompatibilism
transhumanism
posthumanism
normal
normative
double consciousness
consciousness raising
gnostic
agnostic
particle theory
particularism
idealism
solipsism
genetic fallacy
genealogy
autonomy
agency
inescapability
overridingness
rhetoric
dialectics
emergentism
epiphenomenalism
'philosophy'
philosophy
movers and shakers
index
