Readings on Ultimate Questions : An Introduction to Philosophy
ISBN: 9780205731985 | 0205731988
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 9/22/2009
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Accessible and engaging, this brief and inexpensive anthology provides contemporary and classical readings in the key areas of Introductory Philosophy. This brief, low-cost, anthology is only $33.00 net, much less than similar anthologies. Designed to be used on its own or with its companion text, Ultimate Questions: Thinking About Philosophy 3e, this collection of readings covers the major topic areas in philosophy: Knowledge; Free Will; Personal Identity; Mind/Body; God; Ethics; and Political Philosophy. While focusing primarily on contempora... MORE
| Preface | p. vi |
| About the Authors | p. viii |
| Whv Study Philosophy? | p. 1 |
| What Is Enlightenment? | p. 2 |
| Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect | p. 8 |
| Letter to Menoeceus | p. 11 |
| Philosophy, a Bus Ride | p. 12 |
| Apology | p. 15 |
| The Value of Philosophy | p. 27 |
| What Do We Know? | p. 31 |
| Meditations 1 and 2... MORE | p. 32 |
| A Skeptic's Manifesto | p. 41 |
| The Lure of Radical Skepticism | p. 47 |
| Appearance and Reality | p. 57 |
| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | p. 62 |
| A Priori Justification | p. 70 |
| Do We Have Free Will? | p. 75 |
| Determinism | p. 76 |
| Compatibilism | p. 79 |
| Beyond Compatibilism: A Buddhist Approach to Freedom and Determinism | p. 86 |
| The Consequence Argument | p. 100 |
| Human Freedom and the Self | p. 106 |
| Libertarianism | p. 114 |
| Is There an Enduring Self? | p. 133 |
| A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality | p. 135 |
| ôNo-Selföin Buddhism | p. 145 |
| The Judaic-Christian Conception of the Person | p. 152 |
| A Critique of Locke's Theory of Personal Identity | p. 161 |
| Brain Transplants and Personal Identity | p. 165 |
| Where Am I? | p. 172 |
| Feminist Perspectives on the Self | p. 183 |
| What is the Mind? | p. 195 |
| They're Made Out of Meat Terry Bisson | p. 197 |
| An Argument for Dualism from ôAlcibiades Iö | p. 199 |
| A Critique of Dualism | p. 202 |
| A Defense of Dualism | p. 214 |
| Philosophical Behaviorism | p. 219 |
| The Nature of Mind | p. 231 |
| Mad Pain and Martian Pain | p. 241 |
| Arguments Against Materialism | p. 249 |
| Does God Exist? | p. 263 |
| The Evidential Value of Religious Experience | p. 265 |
| The Five Ways | p. 276 |
| The Ontological Argument | p. 278 |
| The Cosmological Argument | p. 284 |
| A Debate on the Cosmological Argument | p. 292 |
| Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference | p. 301 |
| Born-Again Creationism | p. 314 |
| You Bet Your Life: Pascal's Wager Defended | p. 323 |
| The Problem of Evil | p. 336 |
| Why God Allows Evil | p. 341 |
| TheEthics of Belief | p. 351 |
| The Will to Believe | p. 356 |
| Male-Chauvinist Religion | p. 364 |
| what ought we To DO? | p. 377 |
| The Objective Basis of Morality | p. 379 |
| Relativism | p. 383 |
| Must God's Commands Conform to Moral Standards? | p. 385 |
| Reflective Equilibrium | p. 388 |
| The Principle of Utility | p. 396 |
| Push-Pin and Poetry | p. 402 |
| Higher and Lower Pleasures | p. 403 |
| Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | p. 407 |
| Maria von Herbert's Challenge to Kant | p. 416 |
| Nicomachean Ethics | p. 429 |
| Regarding the Last Frontier of Bigotry | p. 442 |
| Do Animals Have Rights? | p. 450 |
| The Case for Gay Marriage | p. 460 |
| The Case against Gay Marriage | p. 465 |
| Credits | p. 469 |
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Nils Ch. Rauhut studied philosophy and history at the University of Regensburg (Germany). He received an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Washington in Seattle. He taught at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and he is currently teaching at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.
