An edition of Exploring philosophy
(2009)
Exploring philosophy
an introductory anthology
3rd ed.
by Steven M. Cahn
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Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology
2020, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford University Press
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Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology
Oct 02, 2017, Oxford University Press
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Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology
2014, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Exploring philosophy: an introductory anthology
2009, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents
Introduction
What is philosophy? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley
Defence of socrates / Plato
Reasoning
The scope of logic / Wesley C. Salmon
Improving your thinking / Stephen F. Barker
Fixing belief / Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel
Scientific inquiry / Carl G. Hempel
Science and common sense / Ernest Nagel
Knowledge
Appearance and reality / Bertrand Russell
What can i know? / D.Z. Phillips
Knowledge and belief / Norman Malcolm
The problem of induction / Bertrand Russell
Will the future be like the past? / Frederick L. Will
What is knowledge? / A.J. Ayer
Is justified true belief knowledge? / Edmund L. Gettier
Meno / Plato
Meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes
An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume
Mind
The ghost in the machine / Gilbert Ryle
The mind as a function of the body / Richard Taylor
What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel
Computing machinery and intelligence / Alan Turing
Do computers think? / John Searle
Meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes
Free will
Free will / Thomas Nagel
Freedom and determinism / Richard Taylor
Freedom and necessity / A.J. Ayer
Freedom or determinism? / Steven M. Cahn
Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility / Harry Frankfurt
An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume
God
Does God exist? / Ernest Nagel
Why God allows evil / Richard Swinburne
Theology and falsification / Antony Flew and Basil Mitchell
Do miracles occur? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley
Pascal's wager / Simon Blackburn
The hiddenness of God / Robert McKim
God and modern science / Nicholas Everitt
God and morality / Steven M. Cahn
Proslogion / Saint Anselm
Summa theologiae / Saint Thomas Aquinas
An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume
The will to believe / William James
Moral theory
The challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels
How not to answer moral questions / Tom Regan
The nature of ethical disagreement / Charles L. Stevenson
A supreme moral principle? / Steven M. Cahn
Happiness and morality / Christine Vitrano
Virtue ethics / Bernard Mayo
The ethics of care / Virginia Held
Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle
Foundations of the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill
Moral problems
A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson
Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis
Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels
Active and passive euthanasia : a reply / Thomas D. Sullivan
Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer
World hunger and moral obligation : the case against singer / John Arthur
Society
Democracy / John Dewey
Letter from a Birmingham Jail / artin Luther King, Jr.
Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer
The ultimate punishment : a defense / Ernest van den Haag
Capital punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau
Concepts of affirmative action / Steven M. Cahn
Are quotas sometimes justified? / James Rachels
What is a liberal education? / Sidney Hook
Crito / Plato
On liberty / John Stuart Mill
The solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The meaning of life / Richard Taylor
The value of philosophy / Bertrand Russell
Phaedo / Plato.
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