| Description |
xiv, 530 pages ; 26 cm |
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Philosophy, the big questions |
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Philosophy, the big questions.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: What Can We Know? -- Introduction -- 1. Ren, Descartes, from Meditations on First Philosophy -- 2. David Hume, from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -- 3. Jonathan Vogel, "Cartesian Skepticism and Inference to the Best Explanation" -- 4. Helen Longino, from Science as Social Knowledge -- 5. Genevieve Lloyd, from The Man of Reason -- 6. W. K. Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief" -- 7. Peter van Inwagen, "It Is Wrong, Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone, to Believe Anything upon Insufficient Evidence" -- Part II: What Can We Know About the Nature and Existence of God? -- Introduction -- 8. St. Anselm, from Proslogium -- 9. Gaunilon, "Reply to Anselm" -- 10. William L. Rowe, "The Ontological Argument" -- 11. William L. Rowe, "The Cosmological Argument" -- 12. David Hume, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion -- 13. R. G. Swinburne, "The Argument from Design" -- 14. Blaise Pascal, "The Wager" -- 15. Stephen P. Stich, "The Recombinant DNA Debate: A Difficulty for Pascalian-style Wagering" -- 16. George Schlesinger, "A Central Theistic Argument" -- 17. J. L. Mackie, "Evil and Omnipotence" -- 18. Eleonore Stump, "The Problem of Evil" -- 19. Deborah Mathieu, "Male-Chauvinist Religion" -- 20. William R. Jones, from "Is God a White Racist?" -- Part III: Are We Ever Free? -- Introduction -- 21. Paul Holbach, from The System of Nature -- 22. A. J. Ayer, "Freedom and Necessity" -- 23. Roderick M. Chisolm, "Human Freedom and the Self" -- 24. Harry G. Frankfurt, "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility" -- 25. James P. Sterba and Janet Kourany, "How to Complete the Compatibilist Account of Free Action" -- 26. Derk Pereboom, "Living without Free Will: The Case for Hard Incompatibilism" -- 27. Richard Double, "Metaethics, Metaphilosophy, and Free Will Subjectivism" -- Part IV: Does Our Existence Have a Meaning or Purpose? -- Introduction -- 28. Leo Tolstoy, from My Confession -- 29. William Lane Craig, "The Absurdity of Life Without God" -- 30. Arthur Schopenhauer, "On the Vanity of Existence" -- 31. Albert Camus, from The Myth of Sisyphus -- 32. Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism Is a Humanism" -- 33. Thomas Nagel, "The Absurd" -- 34. Owen Flanagan, "What Makes Life Worth Living?" -- 35. John Kekes, "The Meaning of Life" -- 36. Antony Flew, "Tolstoi and the Meaning of Life" -- Part V: How Should We Live? -- Introduction -- 37. Plato, "Morality as Good in Itself" -- 38. James P. Sterba, "Morality and Rationality" -- 39. John Stuart Mill, from Utilitarianism -- 40. Immanuel Kant, "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals" -- 41. John Locke, "Of the State of Nature" -- 42. John Rawls, from A Theory of Justice -- 43. Robert Nozick, from Anarchy, State, and Utopia -- 44. Susan Moller Okin, "Gender Inequality and Cultural Difference" -- 45. Jane Flax, "Race/Gender, and the Ethics of Difference" -- 46. Susan Moller Okin, "A Response to Jane Flax" -- 47. Bernard Boxill, "Equality, Discrimination, and Preferential Treatment" -- 48. Peter Singer, "All Animals Are Equal" -- 49. Paul W. Taylor, "The Ethics of Respect for Nature" -- Index |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Introductions.
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| Genre/Form |
Introductions.
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Anthologie (Descripteur de forme).
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| Author |
Sterba, James P.
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Mills, Charles W. (Charles Wade)
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Sample, Ruth J., 1964-
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| LC no. |
2003011348 |
| ISBN |
1405108282 alkaline paper |
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1405108274 paperback alkaline paper |
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