Philosophical Problems : An Annotated Anthology,9780321236593

Philosophical Problems : An Annotated Anthology

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Pub. Date: 2005-01-01
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Summary

Offers the reader a process for thinking philosophically and provides immediate guidance in reading philosophical work through margin annotations. Classic and contemporary philosophical works. Introduction to Philosophy featuring work by major historical and contemporary philosophers.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
What is Philosophy?
1(40)
Philosophical Thinking
3(11)
Ann Baker
Euthyphro
14(10)
Plato
Apology
24(11)
Plato
The Value of Philosophy
35(6)
Bertrand Russell
God and Faith
41(104)
Does God Exist?
43(54)
The Cosmological Argument
The Five Ways, from Summa Theologica
43(4)
St. Thomas Aquinas
The Cosmological Argument, from A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God
47(4)
Samuel Clarke
Problems with the Cosmological Argument, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
51(4)
David Hume
The Argument from Design
The Argument from Design, from Natural Theology
55(10)
William Paley
The Panda's Thumb
65(4)
Stephen Jay Gould
Problems with the Argument from Design, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
69(17)
David Hume
Critique of the Global Argument from Design, from God: A Critical Inquiry
86(4)
Antony Flew
The Ontological Argument
The Ontological Argument
90(3)
Rene Descartes
The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God
93(4)
Immanuel Kant
An Argument Against the Existence of God: The Problem of Evil
97(30)
Rebellion, from The Brothers Karamozov
97(6)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Problem of Evil, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
103(11)
David Hume
Evil and Omnipotence
114(8)
J. L. Mackie
The Problem of Evil, from Philosophy of Religion
122(5)
John Hick
Must We Have Reasons to Believe in God?
127(18)
Pascal's Wager, from Critique of Religion and Philosophy
127(2)
Walter Kaufmann
The Ethics of Belief
129(5)
W. K. Clifford
The Will to Believe
134(11)
William James
Knowledge and Skepticism
145(162)
Do We Have Knowledge of the External World?
149(109)
From Meditations on First Philosophy
149(25)
Rene Descartes
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
174(18)
John Locke
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
192(30)
George Berkeley
Direct Realism, from Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
222(17)
Thomas Reid
Knowledge of the External World, from Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses
239(19)
Laurence BonJour
Are All Reasons Based on Experience?
258(26)
Is All Knowledge Based on Experience or Is Some Knowledge A Priori?, from The Critique of Pure Reason
258(9)
Immanuel Kant
The A Priori, from Language, Truth and Logic
267(8)
A. J. Ayer
The ``A Priori'' and the Empirical, from The Fundamental Questions of Philosophy
275(9)
A. C. Ewing
Is Induction Justified?
284(23)
Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding, from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
284(7)
David Hume
The Problem of Induction, from The Foundations of Scientific Inference
291(16)
Wesley Salmon
Minds and Bodies
307(146)
Are Minds and Mental States Distinct from Bodies and Material States?
315(26)
How the Mind-Body Problem Arises
315(12)
Keith Campbell
A Defense of Dualism
327(7)
John Foster
Sensations and Brain Processes
334(7)
J. J. C. Smart
Are Mental States Analogous to the States of a Computer?
341(40)
The Mind-Body Problem
341(13)
Jerry Fodor
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
354(12)
A. M. Turing
Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program?
366(9)
John R. Searle
Searle on What Only Brains Can Do
375(4)
Jerry Fodor
Author's Response
379(2)
John R. Searle
Can Materialism Account for Qualitative Consciousness?
381(34)
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
381(10)
Thomas Nagel
What Mary Didn't Know
391(5)
Frank Jackson
What Is It Like to Be a Human (Instead of a Bat)?
396(9)
Laurence BonJour
Knowing What It's Like
405(2)
David Lewis
The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
407(8)
David J. Chalmers
What is Required for Personal Identity?
415(38)
Personal Identity
415(8)
John Locke
Of Mr. Locke's Account of Personal Identity
423(3)
Thomas Reid
The Self and the Future
426(11)
Bernard Williams
Personal Identity
437(16)
Derek Parfit
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
453(88)
Are Human Actions Genuinely Free?
453(66)
Hard Determinism
The Case of Robert Harris
456(4)
Miles Corwin
A Defense of Hard Determinism, from Not Guilty: A Defense of the Bottom Dog
460(12)
Robert Blatchford
Compatibilism
Of Liberty and Necessity
472(9)
David Hume
A Compatibalist Account of Free Will, from Religion and the Modern Mind
481(6)
W. T. Stace
Hard and Soft Determinism
487(5)
Paul Edwards
What Means This Freedom?
492(10)
John Hospers
Libertarianism
Responsibility and Avoidability
502(2)
Roderick M. Chisholm
In Defense of Free Will
504(8)
C. A. Campbell
Choice and Indeterminism, from Philosophical Explanations
512(7)
Robert Nozick
Is Freedom Required for Moral Responsibility?
519(22)
Free Will
519(10)
Galen Strawson
Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility
529(12)
Susan Wolf
Morality and Moral Problems
541(194)
Is Morality Relative? Are We Motivated Only by Self-Interest?
546(32)
The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
546(8)
James Rachels
Subjectivism in Ethics
554(8)
James Rachels
Are We Better Off Behaving Morally or Immorally?
562(9)
Plato
Psychological Egoism
571(7)
Joel Feinberg
What Is the Best Theory of Morality?
578(106)
Utilitarianism: Morality Depends on Consequences
From An Introduction to Principles of Morals and Legislation
578(9)
Jeremy Bentham
From Utilitarianism
587(9)
John Stuart Mill
Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism
596(7)
J. J. C. Smart
A Critique of Utilitarianism
603(8)
Bernard Williams
Deontological Views: Morality Depends on Duties and Rights
From Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
611(13)
Immanuel Kant
The Moral Perplexities of Famine Relief
624(16)
Onora O'Neill
Rights: What They Are and Where They Come From
640(15)
David T. Ozar
Virtue Ethics: Morality Depends on Character Traits
From The Nichomachean Ethics
655(19)
Aristotle
Normative Virtue Ethics
674(10)
Rosalind Hursthouse
How Do General Moral Concepts Apply to Concrete Issues?
684(51)
A Defense of Abortion
684(12)
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Euthanasia
696(15)
Philippa Foot
War and Massacre
711(14)
Thomas Nagel
The Case for Animal Rights
725(10)
Tom Regan
The Legitimacy of Government and The Nature of Justice
735(78)
What Is the Justification for Government?
737(35)
The Social Contract, from Leviathan
737(12)
Thomas Hobbes
The Social Contract, from Second Treatise of Government
749(16)
John Locke
Of the Original Contract
765(7)
David Hume
What Is Social Justice?
772(41)
The Entitlement Theory of Justice, from Anarchy, State, and Utopia
772(10)
Robert Nozick
Justice as Fairness, from A Theory of Justice
782(14)
John Rawls
A Critique of Rawls, from Anarchy, State, and Utopia
796(7)
Robert Nozick
Nozick on Rights, Liberty, and Property
803(10)
Thomas M. Scanlon
Philosophy and The Good Life
813(36)
The Experience Machine
814(3)
Robert Nozick
Epictetus: from the Manual
817(8)
The Absurd
825(9)
Thomas Nagel
Happiness and Meaning: Two Aspects of the Good Life
834(15)
Susan Wolf
Appendix: Writing a Philosophical Essay 849(8)
Glossary 857(16)
Credits 873

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