Reason and Responsibility Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy (with InfoTrac)
by Feinberg, Joel; Shafer-Landau, RussEdition: 12th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-03-03
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
The Twelfth Edition of this best-selling, topically organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. This new edition features more readings than ever before--79 total--all, where necessary, in the finest translations available. The readings complement each other and naturally build on the topic being covered. Clear, concise introductions to each Part provide just enough guidance to let students learn from experiencing the readings themselves. The text's long-heralded selection of readings covers topics such as 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 | |
| Reason and religious belief | |
| Introduction | |
| The Existence of God | |
| Anselm of Canterbury: the Ontological Argument: from Proslogium Gaunilo | |
| On Behalf of the Fool | |
| The Ontological Argument | |
| The Five Ways, from Summa The ologica | |
| A Modern Formulation of the Cosmological Argument | |
| The Cosmological Argument | |
| The Argument from Design | |
| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, II-XI | |
| The Problem of Evil | |
| Rebellion: from the Brothers Karamazov | |
| God and the Problem of Evil | |
| Why God Allows Evil, from is there a God? Reason and Faith | |
| The Ethics of Belief | |
| The Will to Believe | |
| Without Evidence or Argument | |
| The Wager | |
| Miracles and Testimony, from Think | |
| Human Knowledge: ITS GROUNDS AND LIMITS | |
| Introduction | |
| Skepticism | |
| A Brain in a Vat | |
| The Modes of Skepticism, from Outlines of Pyhrronism | |
| The Problem of the Criterion | |
| Our Knowledge of the External World | |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
| The Causal The ory of Perception, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
| Of the Principles of Human Knowledge | |
| Of the Existence of a Material World, from Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense | |
| Proof of an External World | |
| The Methods of Science | |
| An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, II, IV-VII | |
| An Encounter with David Hume | |
| Conjectures and Refutations | |
| Believing Where We Cannot Prove, from Abusing Science | |
| Mind and Its Place In Nature | |
| Introduction | |
| The Mind-Body Problem | |
| A Defense of Substance Dualism | |
| The Qualia Problem | |
| The Case for Materialism | |
| The Mind is the Brain, from Introducing Persons | |
| Behaviorism, Materialism, and Functionalism, from Matter and Consciousness | |
| Can Non-Humans Think? Alan Turing | |
| Computing Machinery and Intelligence | |
| Minds, Brains, and Programs | |
| Robots and Minds, from Consciousness | |
| Star Witness Personal Identity and the Survival of Death | |
| The Prince and the Cobbler, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
| Of Identity and of Mr. Locke''s Account of Identity, from Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man | |
| The Self, from A Treatise of Human Nature | |
| Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons | |
| Where Am I?, from Brainstorms | |
| A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality | |
| Determinism, Free Will and Responsibility | |
| Introduction | |
| The Case for Determinism and its Incompatibility With Any Important Sense of Free Will | |
| The Illusion of Free Will, from System of Nature | |
| 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 | |
| Freedom and Necessity, from Philosophical Essays | |
| The Problem of Free Will, from Religion and the Modern Mind. Libertarianism | |
| The Case for Free Will and its Incompatibility with Determinism | |
| Human Freedom and the Self. | |
| Free Will: Ancient Dispute, New The mes | |
| Freedom and Moral Responsibility | |
| The Preconditions of Virtue, from Nicomachean Ethics | |
| Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility. | |
| Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility | |
| Morality and Its Critics Introduction | |
| Challenges to Morality | |
| Psychological Egoism | |
| Ethical Egoism, from Elements of Moral Philosop | |
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