The Truth about the World: Basic Readings in Philosophy
ISBN: 9780078038303 | 0078038308
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 7/27/2011
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This collection of essays addresses some of the most important issues in philosophy, involving God, the mind, freedom, knowledge, and ethics. It can accompany James Rachels and Stuart Rachels' introductory text, Problems from Philosophy, or it can stand alone with great effectiveness. The Truth about the Worldand Problems from Philosophywere James Rachels' last contributions to philosophy, and each book has beenrevised by his son, Stuart. In these two books, James Rachels found a culminating expression for his love of philosophy.
Preface1. Introduction James RachelsPLATO2. Socrates’ Trial Plato3. Socrates’ Decision to Die Plato 4. Socrates’ Question about Justice PlatoGOD5. Five Ways to Prove That God Exists St. ThomasAquinas6. The Watch and the Watch-Maker William Paley7. The Fine-Tuning Argument Peter van Inwagen8. Why Doesn’t God Intervene? B. C. Johnson9. The Problem of Evil Peter van Inwagen10. Why I Am Not a Christian Bertra... MORE11. You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager DefendedWilliam Lycan and George SchlesingerTHE MIND12. Do We Survive Death? Bertrand Russell 13. Split Brains and Personal Identity Derek Parfit 14. Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett15. The Mind–Brain Identity Theory David Armstrong16. Bat Sonar Thomas Nagel17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
PLATO2. Socrates’ Trial Plato3. Socrates’ Decision to Die Plato 4. Socrates’ Question about Justice PlatoGOD5. Five Ways to Prove That God Exists St. ThomasAquinas6. The Watch and the Watch-Maker William Paley7. The Fine-Tuning Argument Peter van Inwagen8. Why Doesn’t God Intervene? B. C. Johnson9. The Problem of Evil Peter van Inwagen10. Why I Am Not a Christian Bertra... MORE11. You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager DefendedWilliam Lycan and George SchlesingerTHE MIND12. Do We Survive Death? Bertrand Russell 13. Split Brains and Personal Identity Derek Parfit 14. Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett15. The Mind–Brain Identity Theory David Armstrong16. Bat Sonar Thomas Nagel17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
3. Socrates’ Decision to Die Plato 4. Socrates’ Question about Justice PlatoGOD5. Five Ways to Prove That God Exists St. ThomasAquinas6. The Watch and the Watch-Maker William Paley7. The Fine-Tuning Argument Peter van Inwagen8. Why Doesn’t God Intervene? B. C. Johnson9. The Problem of Evil Peter van Inwagen10. Why I Am Not a Christian Bertra... MORE11. You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager DefendedWilliam Lycan and George SchlesingerTHE MIND12. Do We Survive Death? Bertrand Russell 13. Split Brains and Personal Identity Derek Parfit 14. Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett15. The Mind–Brain Identity Theory David Armstrong16. Bat Sonar Thomas Nagel17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
GOD5. Five Ways to Prove That God Exists St. ThomasAquinas6. The Watch and the Watch-Maker William Paley7. The Fine-Tuning Argument Peter van Inwagen8. Why Doesn’t God Intervene? B. C. Johnson9. The Problem of Evil Peter van Inwagen10. Why I Am Not a Christian Bertra... MORE11. You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager DefendedWilliam Lycan and George SchlesingerTHE MIND12. Do We Survive Death? Bertrand Russell 13. Split Brains and Personal Identity Derek Parfit 14. Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett15. The Mind–Brain Identity Theory David Armstrong16. Bat Sonar Thomas Nagel17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
6. The Watch and the Watch-Maker William Paley7. The Fine-Tuning Argument Peter van Inwagen8. Why Doesn’t God Intervene? B. C. Johnson9. The Problem of Evil Peter van Inwagen10. Why I Am Not a Christian Bertra... MORE11. You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager DefendedWilliam Lycan and George SchlesingerTHE MIND12. Do We Survive Death? Bertrand Russell 13. Split Brains and Personal Identity Derek Parfit 14. Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett15. The Mind–Brain Identity Theory David Armstrong16. Bat Sonar Thomas Nagel17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
8. Why Doesn’t God Intervene? B. C. Johnson9. The Problem of Evil Peter van Inwagen10. Why I Am Not a Christian Bertra... MORE11. You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager DefendedWilliam Lycan and George SchlesingerTHE MIND12. Do We Survive Death? Bertrand Russell 13. Split Brains and Personal Identity Derek Parfit 14. Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett15. The Mind–Brain Identity Theory David Armstrong16. Bat Sonar Thomas Nagel17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
10. Why I Am Not a Christian Bertra... MORE11. You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager DefendedWilliam Lycan and George SchlesingerTHE MIND12. Do We Survive Death? Bertrand Russell 13. Split Brains and Personal Identity Derek Parfit 14. Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett15. The Mind–Brain Identity Theory David Armstrong16. Bat Sonar Thomas Nagel17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
THE MIND12. Do We Survive Death? Bertrand Russell 13. Split Brains and Personal Identity Derek Parfit 14. Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett15. The Mind–Brain Identity Theory David Armstrong16. Bat Sonar Thomas Nagel17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
13. Split Brains and Personal Identity Derek Parfit 14. Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett15. The Mind–Brain Identity Theory David Armstrong16. Bat Sonar Thomas Nagel17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
15. The Mind–Brain Identity Theory David Armstrong16. Bat Sonar Thomas Nagel17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
17. Facing Up to the Problem of ConsciousnessDavid Chalmers18. The Myth of the Computer John R. SearleFREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
FREEDOM19. A Defense of Free Will Skepticism Derk Pereboom20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
20. Compatibilism Defended W. T. Stace21. On Liberty John Stuart MillKNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
KNOWLEDGE22. Meditations I and II René Descartes23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
23. Does Matter Exist? George Berkeley24. The Lure of Radical Skepticism Michael HuemerETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
ETHICS25. Ethics and Human Feeling David Hume26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
26. Our Sense of Right and Wrong C. S. Lewis27. The Virtues Martha C. Nussbaum 28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
28. Four Applications of the Categorical ImperativeImmanuel Kant 29. Four Ethical Principles Peter Singer 30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
30. The Debate over Utilitarianism James Rachelsand Stuart Rachels 31. The Experience Machine Robert Nozick 32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
32. The Meaning of Life Richard Taylor
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