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Philosophical Problems : An Annotated Anthology

by: BonJour, Laurence; Baker, Ann

Philosophical Problems : An Annotated Anthology

by: BonJour, Laurence; Baker, Ann

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9780321236593
ISBN 10:
0321236599
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Copyright: 01/01/2005
Publisher: Longman
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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.

Preface

What is Philosophy?

(40)

Philosophical Thinking

(11)

Ann Baker

Euthyphro

(10)

Plato

Apology

(11)

Plato

The Value of Philosophy

(6)

Bertrand Russell

God and Faith

(104)

Does God Exist?

(54)

The Cosmological Argument

The Five Ways, from Summa Theologica

(4)

St. Thomas Aquinas

The Cosmological Argument, from A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

(4)

Samuel Clarke

Problems with the Cosmological Argument, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

(4)

David Hume

The Argument from Design

The Argument from Design, from Natural Theology

(10)

William Paley

The Panda's Thumb

(4)

Stephen Jay Gould

Problems with the Argument from Design, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

(17)

David Hume

Critique of the Global Argument from Design, from God: A Critical Inquiry

(4)

Antony Flew

The Ontological Argument

(3)

Rene Descartes

The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God

(4)

Immanuel Kant

An Argument Against the Existence of God: The Problem of Evil

(30)

Rebellion, from The Brothers Karamozov

(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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