Exploring philosophy
Subtitle: an introductory anthology
By: edited by Steven M. Cahn.
Contributors: Cahn, Steven M.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195370102
Subjects: Philosophy -- Introductions
Genres: Introductions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: What is philosophy? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley; title: Defence of socrates / Plato; title: Reasoning; title: The scope of logic / Wesley C. Salmon; title: Improving your thinking / Stephen F. Barker; title: Fixing belief / Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel; title: Scientific inquiry / Carl G. Hempel; title: Science and common sense / Ernest Nagel; title: Knowledge; title: Appearance and reality / Bertrand Russell; title: What can i know? / D.Z. Phillips; title: Knowledge and belief / Norman Malcolm; title: The problem of induction / Bertrand Russell; title: Will the future be like the past? / Frederick L. Will; title: What is knowledge? / A.J. Ayer; title: Is justified true belief knowledge? / Edmund L. Gettier; title: Meno / Plato; title: Meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes; title: An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume; title: Mind; title: The ghost in the machine / Gilbert Ryle; title: The mind as a function of the body / Richard Taylor; title: What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel; title: Computing machinery and intelligence / Alan Turing; title: Do computers think? / John Searle; title: Meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes; title: Free will; title: Free will / Thomas Nagel; title: Freedom and determinism / Richard Taylor; title: Freedom and necessity / A.J. Ayer; title: Freedom or determinism? / Steven M. Cahn; title: Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility / Harry Frankfurt; title: An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume; title: God; title: Does God exist? / Ernest Nagel; title: Why God allows evil / Richard Swinburne; title: Theology and falsification / Antony Flew and Basil Mitchell; title: Do miracles occur? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley; title: Pascal's wager / Simon Blackburn; title: The hiddenness of God / Robert McKim; title: God and modern science / Nicholas Everitt; title: God and morality / Steven M. Cahn; title: Proslogion / Saint Anselm; title: Summa theologiae / Saint Thomas Aquinas; title: An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume; title: The will to believe / William James; title: Moral theory; title: The challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels; title: How not to answer moral questions / Tom Regan; title: The nature of ethical disagreement / Charles L. Stevenson; title: A supreme moral principle? / Steven M. Cahn; title: Happiness and morality / Christine Vitrano; title: Virtue ethics / Bernard Mayo; title: The ethics of care / Virginia Held; title: Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle; title: Foundations of the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant; title: Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill; title: Moral problems; title: A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson; title: Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis; title: Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels; title: Active and passive euthanasia : a reply / Thomas D. Sullivan; title: Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer; title: World hunger and moral obligation : the case against singer / John Arthur; title: Society; title: Democracy / John Dewey; title: Letter from a Birmingham Jail / artin Luther King, Jr.; title: Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer; title: The ultimate punishment : a defense / Ernest van den Haag; title: Capital punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau; title: Concepts of affirmative action / Steven M. Cahn; title: Are quotas sometimes justified? / James Rachels; title: What is a liberal education? / Sidney Hook; title: Crito / Plato; title: On liberty / John Stuart Mill; title: The solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton; title: The meaning of life / Richard Taylor; title: The value of philosophy / Bertrand Russell; title: Phaedo / Plato.