| Description |
xviii, 455 pages ; 26 cm |
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Blackwell philosophy anthologies |
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Blackwell philosophy anthologies.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Philosophical Image -- 1.Life and the Search for Philosophical Knowledge / Plato -- 2.Philosophical Questioning / Bertrand Russell -- 3.Philosophy and Fundamental Images / Wilfrid Sellars -- 4.Philosophy as the Analyzing of Key Concepts / P.F. Strawson -- 5.Philosophy as Explaining Underlying Possibilities / Robert Nozick -- pt. II Metaphysics: Philosophical Images of Being -- How Is the World at all Physical? -- 6.How Real Are Physical Objects? / Bertrand Russell -- 7.Are Physical Objects Never Quite as They Appear To Be? / John Locke -- 8.Are Physical Objects Really Only Objects of Thought? / George Berkeley -- 9.Is Even the Mind Physical? / D.M. Armstrong -- 10.Is the Physical World All There Is? / Frank Jackson -- How Does the World Function? -- 11.Is Causation Only a Kind of Regularity? / David Hume -- 12.Is Causation Something Singular and Unanalyzable? / G.E.M. Anscombe -- How Do Things Ever Have Qualities? -- |
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Contents note continued: 13.How Can Individual Things Have Repeatable Qualities? / Plato -- 14.How Can Individual Things Not Have Repeatable Qualities? / D.M. Armstrong -- How Are There Any Truths? -- 15.Do Facts Make True Whatever Is True? / Bertrand Russell -- 16.Are There Social Facts? / John Searle -- 17.Is There Only Personally Decided Truth? / Plato -- How Is There a World At All? -- 18.Has the World Been Designed by God? / David Hume -- 19.Is God's Existence Knowable Purely Conceptually? / St. Anselm -- 20.Has This World Been Actualized by God from Among All Possible Worlds? / G.W. Leibniz -- 21.Does This World Exist Because It Has Value Independently of God? / Nicholas Rescher -- 22.Can Something Have Value in Itself? / Plato -- How Are Persons Persons? -- 23.Is Each Person a Union of Mind and Body? / Rene Descartes -- 24.Is Self-Consciousness what Constitutes a Person? / John Locke -- 25.How Strictly Does Self-Consciousness Constitute a Person? / Roderick M. Chisholm -- |
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Contents note continued: 26.Are Persons Constituted with Strict Identity At All? / Derek Parfit -- 27.Are We Animals? / Eric T. Olson -- How Do People Ever Have Free Will and Moral Responsibility? -- 28.Is There No Possibility of Acting Differently To How One Will in Fact Act? / Aristotle -- 29.Could Our Being Entirely Caused Coexist with Our Acting Freely? / David Hume -- 30.Would Being Entirely Caused Undermine Our Personally Constitutive Emotions? / P.F. Strawson -- 31.Is a Person Morally Responsible Only for Actions Performed Freely? / Harry G. Frankfurt -- 32.Is Moral Responsibility for a Good Action Different to Moral Responsibility for a Bad Action? / Susan Wolf -- How Could a Person Be Harmed by Being Dead? -- 33.Is It Impossible To Be Harmed by Being Dead? / Epicurus -- 34.Is It Impossible To Be Harmed by Being Dead at a Particular Time / Lucretius -- 35.Would Immortality Be Humanly Possible and Desirable? / Bernard Williams -- |
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Contents note continued: 36.Can a Person be Deprived of Benefits by Being Dead? / Fred Feldman -- Further Readings for Part II -- pt. III Epistemology: Philosophical Images of Knowing -- Can We Understand What It Is to Know? -- 37.Is Knowledge a Supported True Belief? / Plato -- 38.When Should a Belief be Supported by Evidence? / W.K. Clifford -- 39.Is Knowledge a Kind of Objective Certainty? / A.J. Ayer -- 40.Are All Fallibly Supported True Beliefs Instances of Knowledge? / Edmund L. Gettier -- 41.Must a True Belief Arise Aptly, if it is to be Knowledge? / Alvin I. Goldman -- 42.Must a True Belief Arise Reliably, if it is to be Knowledge? / Alvin I. Goldman -- 43.Where is the Value in Knowing? / Catherine Z. Elgin -- 44.Is Knowledge Always a Virtuously Derived True Belief? / Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski -- Can We Ever Know Just through Observation? -- 45.Is All Knowledge Ultimately Observational? / David Hume -- |
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Contents note continued: 46.Is There a Problem of Not Knowing that One Is Not Dreaming? / Rene Descartes -- 47.What Is It Really to be Seeing Something? / David Lewis -- 48.Is There a Possibility of Being a Mere and Unknowing Brain in a Vat? / Hilary Putnam -- 49.Is It Possible to Observe Directly the Objective World? / John McDowell -- Can We Ever Know Innately? -- 50.Is It Possible to Know Innately Some Geometrical or Mathematical Truths? / Plato -- 51.Is There No Innate Knowledge At All? / John Locke -- Can We Ever Know Just through Reflection? -- 52.Is All Knowledge Ultimately Reflective? / Rene Descartes -- 53.Can Reflective Knowledge Be Substantive and Informative? / Immanuel Kant -- 54.Is All Apparently Reflective Knowledge Ultimately Observational? / John Stuart Mill -- 55.Is Scientific Reflection Our Best Model for Understanding Reflection? / C.S. Peirce -- 56.Are Some Necessities Known through Observation, Not Reflection? / Saul A. Kripke -- |
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Contents note continued: Can We Know in Other Fundamental Ways? -- 57.Is Knowing-How a Distinct Way of Knowing? / Gilbert Ryle -- 58.Is Knowing One's Intention-in-Action a Distinct Way of Knowing? / G.E.M. Anscombe -- 59.Is Knowing via What Others Say or Write a Distinct Way of Knowing? / Jennifer Lackey -- 60.Is Knowing through Memory a Distinct Way of Knowing? / Bertrand Russell -- Can We Fundamentally Fail Ever To Know? -- 61.Are None of our Beliefs More Justifiable than Others? / Sextus Empiricus -- 62.Are None of Our Beliefs Immune from Doubt? / Rene Descartes -- 63.Are We Unable Ever To Extrapolate Justifiedly Beyond Our Observations? / David Hume -- Can Skeptical Arguments Be Escaped? -- 64.Can We Know at Least Our Conscious Mental Lives? / Rene Descartes -- 65.Can We Know Some Fundamental Principles by Common Sense? / Thomas Reid -- 66.Do We Know a Lot, but Always Fallibly? / Karl R. Popper -- |
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Contents note continued: 67.Is It Possible to have Knowledge even when Not Knowing that One Is Not a Brain in a Vat? / Robert Nozick |
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Australian |
| Notes |
Series numbering should read 36 |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Metaphysics.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Metaphysics -- Miscellanea.
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Miscellanea.
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| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Author |
Hetherington, Stephen Cade, editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2013016775 |
| ISBN |
9781118542583 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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9781118542507 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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