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Title:
Exploring philosophy : an introductory anthology / edited by Steven M. Cahn.
Author:
Cahn, Steven M.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Call Number:
BD21 .E96 2009
Edition:
3rd ed.
ISBN:
9780195370102
Physical Description:
xiii, 513 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- What is philosophy? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley -- Defence of socrates / Plato -- Reasoning -- The scope of logic / Wesley C. Salmon -- Improving your thinking / Stephen F. Barker -- Fixing belief / Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel -- Scientific inquiry / Carl G. Hempel -- Science and common sense / Ernest Nagel -- Knowledge -- Appearance and reality / Bertrand Russell -- What can I know? / D.Z. Phillips -- Knowledge and belief / Norman Malcolm -- The problem of induction / Bertrand Russell -- Will the future be like the past? / Frederick L. Will -- What is knowledge? / A.J. Ayer -- Is justified true belief knowledge? / Edmund L. Gettier -- Meno / Plato -- Meditations on first philosophy / Rene Descartes -- An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume -- Mind -- The ghost in the machine / Gilbert Ryle -- The mind as a function of the body / Richard Taylor -- What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel -- Computing machinery and intelligence / Alan Turing -- Do computers think? / John Searle -- Meditations on first philosophy / Rene Descartes -- Free will -- Free will / Thomas Nagel -- Freedom and determinism / Richard Taylor -- Freedom and necessity / A.J. Ayer -- Freedom or determinism? / Steven M. Cahn -- Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility / Harry Frankfurt -- An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume -- God -- Does God exist? / Ernest Nagel -- Why God allows evil / Richard Swinburne -- Theology and falsification / Antony Flew and Basil Mitchell -- Do miracles occur? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley -- Pascal's wager / Simon Blackburn -- The hiddenness of God / Robert McKim -- God and modern science / Nicholas Everitt -- God and morality / Steven M. Cahn -- Proslogion / Saint Anselm -- Summa theologiae / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume -- The will to believe / William James -- Moral theory -- The challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels -- How not to answer moral questions / Tom Regan -- The nature of ethical disagreement / Charles L. Stevenson -- A supreme moral principle? / Steven M. Cahn -- Happiness and morality / Christine Vitrano -- Virtue ethics / Bernard Mayo -- The ethics of care / Virginia Held -- Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle -- Foundations of the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Moral problems -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Active and passive euthanasia : a reply / Thomas D. Sullivan -- Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer -- World hunger and moral obligation : the case against Singer / John Arthur -- Society -- Democracy / John Dewey -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer -- The ultimate punishment : a defense / Ernest van den Haag -- Capital punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Two concepts of affirmative action / Steven M. Cahn -- Are quotas sometimes justified? / James Rachels -- What is a liberal education? / Sidney Hook -- Crito / Plato -- On liberty / John Stuart Mill -- The solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- The meaning of life / Richard Taylor -- The value of philosophy / Bertrand Russell -- Phaedo / Plato.
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