Reason and Responsibility Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy
by Feinberg, Joel; Shafer-Landau, RussFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-07-05
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
The eleventh edition of this renowned, topically organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. The text covers reason and religious belief, human knowledge, mind and its place in nature, determinism, free will and responsibility, and morality and its critics in five parts with careful attention to opposing points of view.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Part One: REASON AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF | |
| Introduction | |
| The Existence of God | |
| Anselm of Canterbury: The Ontological Argument: from Proslogium | |
| Gaunilo: On Behalf of the Fool | |
| William L | |
| Rowe: The Ontological Argument | |
| Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways: from Summa Theologica | |
| Samuel Clarke: A Modern Formulation of the Cosmological Argument | |
| William L | |
| Rowe: The Cosmological Argument | |
| Derek Parfit: Why is there Something rather than Nothing? William Paley: The Argument from Design | |
| David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, II-XI | |
| Deborah Mathieu: Male Chauvinist Religion | |
| The Problem of Evil | |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rebellion: from The Brothers Karamazov | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: A Refutation of Arguments from Evil, from Theodicy | |
| J | |
| L | |
| Mackie: Evil and Omnipotence | |
| Peter Van Inwagen: The Magnitude: Duration and Distribution of Evil: A Theodicy | |
| Reason and Faith | |
| W | |
| K | |
| Clifford: The Ethics of Belief | |
| William James: The Will to Believe | |
| Blaise Pascal: The Wager | |
| Simon Blackburn: Miracles and Testimony, from Think | |
| Part Two: HUMAN KNOWLEDGE: ITS GROUNDS AND LIMITS | |
| Introduction | |
| Skepticism | |
| John Pollock: A Brain in a Vat | |
| Sextus Empiricus: The Modes of Skepticism, from Outlines of Pyhroonism | |
| Roderick M | |
| Chisholm: The Problem of the Criterion | |
| Keith Lehrer: Why Not Skepticism? Our Knowledge of the External World | |
| Rene Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy | |
| G | |
| Moore: Proof of an External World | |
| John Locke: The Causal Theory of Perception, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
| George Berkeley: Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous | |
| The Methods of Science | |
| David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, II, IV-VII | |
| Wesley C | |
| Salmon: An Encounter with David Hume | |
| Duane Gish: Creation, Evolution and Public Education | |
| Philip Kitcher: Believing Where We Cannot Prove, from Abusing Science | |
| Part Three: MIND AND ITS PLACE IN NATURE | |
| Introduction | |
| The Mind-Body Problem | |
| Keith Campbell: Dualisms, from Body and Mind 2ed | |
| Frank Jackson: The Qualia Problem | |
| Paul M | |
| Churchland: Behaviorism, Materialism, and Functionalism, from Matter and Consciousness | |
| Peter Carruthers: The Mind is the Brain, from Introducing Persons | |
| Can Non-Humans Think? John R | |
| Searle: Minds: Brains: and Programs | |
| William G | |
| Lycan: Robots and Minds, from Consciousness | |
| Colin Allen: Star Witness | |
| Personal Identity and the Survival Of Death | |
| Daniel Dennett: Where Am I?, from Brainstorms | |
| Terence Penelhum: Survival: The Problem of Identity | |
| John Perry: A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality | |
| Part Four: DETERMINISM, FREE WILL AND RESPONSIBILITY | |
| Introduction | |
| Hard Determinism: The Case for Determinism and its Incompatibility With Any Important Sense of Free Will | |
| Paul Holbach: The Illusion of Free Will, from System of Nature | |
| Ted Honderich: A Defense of Hard Determinism, from How Free are You? Compatibilism: The Case for Determinism and its Compatibility with the Most Important Sense of Free Will | |
| A | |
| J | |
| Ayer: Freedom and Necessity, from Philosophical Essays | |
| Walter T | |
| Stace: The Problem of Free Will, from Religion and the Modern Mind | |
| Libertarianism: The Case for Free Will and its Incompatibility with Determinism | |
| Roderick Chisholm: Human Freedom and the Self | |
| Robert Kane: Free Will: Ancient Dispute, New Themes | |
| Freedom and Moral Responsibility | |
| Galen Strawson: The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility | |
| Harry Frankfurt: Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility | |
| Thomas Nagel: Moral Luck | |
| Part Five: MORALITY AND ITS CRITICS | |
| Introduction | |
| Challenges to Morality | |
| Joel Feinberg: Psychological Egoism | |
| James Rachels: Ethical Egoism, from Elements of Moral Philosophy | |
| Plato: The Immoralist's Challenge, from Republic, Book II | |
| Plato, Socrates' Answer (in part), from Republic, Books II, III and IV | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche: Master and Slave Morality, from Genealogy of Morals & Beyond Good and Evil | |
| Proposed Standards of Right Conduct | |
| Russ Shafer-Landau: Ethical Subjectivism | |
| James Rachels: The Challenge of Cultural Relativism: from The Elements of Moral Philosophy | |
| Aristotle: The Nature of Virtue, from Nicomachean Ethics | |
| Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan: Pt | |
| I: chs | |
| XIII-XV | |
| Philip Quinn: God and Morality | |
| Immanuel Kant: The Good Will: and The Categorical Imperative: from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
| John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, Chapters 1-2. John Rawls: Justice as Fairness, from A Theory of Justice | |
| Applied Ethics | |
| Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence and Morality | |
| Onora O'Neill: Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems | |
| James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
| Tom Beaucamp: A Reply to Rachels on Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
| Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion | |
| Don Marquis: An Argument that Abortion is Wrong | |
| John Harris: The Survival Lottery | |
| Tom Regan: The Case for Animal Rights | |
| Plato: Crito | |
| Glossary |
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