Introduction to Philosophy : Classical and Contemporary Readings
ISBN: 9780195390360 | 0195390369
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/28/2009
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The "Rolls Royce" of introductory philosophy texts, this is the most comprehensive topically organized anthology of philosophical readings available, from the best and most influential works in philosophy.Introduction to Philosophy, Fifth Edition, is the most comprehensive topically organized collection of classical and contemporary philosophy available. It presents seventy selections from the best and most influential works in philosophy, offering a unique balance between classical and contemporarymaterial. Ideal for introductory philosophy co... MORE
| Preface | |
| Philosophy | |
| Introduction: On the Study of Philosophy | |
| Logical Tool kit | |
| Writing Philosophy Papers | |
| The Value of Philosophy | |
| Plato, Apology: Defence of Socrates | |
| God And Evil | |
| Introduction | |
| Why Believe? | |
| The Ontological Argument | |
| The Existence of God | ... MORE|
| Natural Theology | |
| The Wager | |
| Why I Am Not a Christian | |
| The Problem of Evil | |
| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | |
| God, Evil and the Best of All Possible Worlds | |
| A Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God | |
| Knowledge And Reality | |
| Introduction | |
| Plato and the Concept of Knowledge | |
| Plato, Thaetetus | |
| Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? | |
| Descartes and the Problems of Skepticism | |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
| Bad Dreams, Evil Demons, and the Experience Machine: Philosophy and The Matrix | |
| Excerpt from Philosophical Explanations | |
| Hume's Problems and Some Solutions | |
| Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses | |
| An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | |
| The Problem of Induction | |
| Minds, Bodies, And Persons | |
| Introduction | |
| The Traditional Problem of Mind and Body | |
| The Argument from Analogy for Other Minds | |
| Descartes's Myth | |
| The Nature of Mind | |
| Intentional Systems | |
| Eliminative Materialism | |
| Minds, Brains, and Machines | |
| Computing Machinery and Intelligence | |
| Minds, Brains, and Programs | |
| Consciousness | |
| What Is It Like to Be a Bat? | |
| What Mary Didn't Know | |
| Knowing What It's Like | |
| Personal Identity | |
| A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality | |
| The Self and the Future | |
| Personal Identity | |
| So It Goes | |
| Where Am I? | |
| Freedom, Determinism, and Responsibility | |
| Human Freedom and the Self | |
| The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will | |
| Of Liberty and Necessity | |
| Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility | |
| Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person | |
| Thomas Nagel, Moral Luck | |
| Ethics And Society | |
| Introduction | |
| Utilitarianism | |
| The Principle of Utility | |
| Utilitarianism | |
| Criticisms of Utilitarianism | |
| Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism | |
| Utilitarianism and Integrity | |
| Famine, Affluence, and Morality | |
| Kantian Ethics | |
| Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals | |
| A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics | |
| Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems | |
| War and Massacre | |
| Aristotelian Ethics | |
| Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics | |
| Aristotle on Eudaimonia | |
| Justice and Equality | |
| A Theory of Justice | |
| Justice and Entitlement | |
| Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice | |
| The Subjection of Women | |
| Markets in Women's Reproductive Labor | |
| Racisms | |
| Challenges to Morality | |
| Morality and Self-Interest | |
| Plato, The Republic | |
| An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | |
| Morality and Advantage | |
| The Law of the Jungle: Moral Alternatives and Principles of Evolution | |
| Subjectivism, Relativism, and Skepticism | |
| The Subjectivity of Values | |
| Ethics and Observation | |
| Moral Explanations | |
| Existential Issues | |
| Moral Saints | |
| The Absurd | |
| The Myth of Sisyphus | |
| The Meaning of Human Existence | |
| The Meanings of Lives | |
| Death | |
| Puzzles And Paradoxes | |
| Introduction | |
| Zeno's Paradoxes | |
| Achilles and the Tortoise | |
| The Racecourse | |
| The Argument Against Plurality | |
| Metaphysical and Epistemological Puzzles and Paradoxes | |
| The Paradox of Identity | |
| The Paradox of the Heap | |
| The Surprise Examination | |
| Goodman's New Riddle of Induction | |
| Puzzles of Rational Choice | |
| The Prisoner's Dilemma | |
| Newcomb's Problem | |
| Kavka's Toxin Puzzle | |
| Quinn's Puzzle of the Self-Torturer | |
| Paradoxes of Logic, Set Theory, and Semantics | |
| The Paradox of the Liar | |
| Other Versions of the Liar | |
| Russell's Paradox | |
| Grelling's Paradox | |
| Puzzles of Ethics | |
| The Trolley Problem | |
| Ducking Harm and Sacrificing Others | |
| Glossary | |
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