Reason and Responsibility
Subtitle: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy
Contributors: Shafer-Landau, Russ
Publisher: Thomson Learning Emea
Published: 2007
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780495500698
Subjects: Philosophy
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Reason and religious belief. The ontological argument, from Proslogion / Anselm of Canterbury ; On behalf of the fool / Gaunilo ; The ontological argument / William L. Rowe ; The five ways, from Summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas ; A modern formulation of the cosmological argument / Samuel Clarke ; The cosmological argument / William L. Rowe ; The argument from design / William Paley ; Dialogues concerning natural religion, II-XI / David Hume ; Male-chauvinist religion / Deborah Mathieu ; Rebellion, from The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; God and the problem of evil / B.C. Johnson ; Why God allows evil, from Is there a God? / Richard Swinburne ; The ethics of belief / W.K. Clifford ; The will to believe / William James ; Without evidence or argument / Kelly James Clark ; The wager / Blaise Pascal ; Miracles and testimony, from Think / Simon Blackburn.; title: pt. 2. Human knowledge: its grounds and limits. A brain in a vat / John Pollock ; The modes of skepticism, from Outlines of Pyhrronism / Sextus Empiricus ; The problem of the criterion / Roderick M. Chisholm ; Meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes ; The causal theory of perception, from An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke ; Of the principles of human knowledge / George Berkeley ; Of the existence of a material world, from Inquiry into the human mind on the principles of common sense / Thomas Reid ; Proof of an external world / G.E. Moore ; An inquiry concerning human understanding, II, IV-VII / David Hume ; An encounter with David Hume / Wesley C. Salmon ; Conjectures and refutations / Karl Popper ; Believing where we cannot prove, from Abusing science / Philip Kitcher.; title: pt. 3. Mind and its place in nature. A defense of substance dualism / Richard Swinburne ; The qualia problem / Frank Johnson ; The case for materialism, from Thinking about consciousness / David Papineau ; The mind is the brain, from Introducing persons / Peter Carruthers ; Behaviorism, materialism and functionalism, from Matter and consciousness / Paul M. Churchland ; Computing machinery and intelligence / Alan Turing ; Minds, brains, and programs / John R. Searle ; Robots and minds, from Consciousness / William G. Lycan ; Star witness / Colin Allen ; The prince and the cobbler, from An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke ; Of identity, from Essays on the intellectual powers of man / Thomas Reid ; Of Mr. Locke's account of our personal identity, from Essays on the intellectual powers of man / Thomas Reid ; The self, from A treatise of human nature / David Hume ; Divided minds and the nature of persons / Derek Parfit ; Where am I?, from Brainstorms / Daniel C. Dennett ; A dialogue on personal identity and immortality / John Perry.; title: pt. 4. Determinism, free will, and responsibility. The illusion of free will, from System of nature / Paul Holbach ; A defense of hard determinism, from How free are you? / Ted Honderich ; Freedom and necessity, from Philosophical essays / A.J. Ayer ; The problem of free will, from Religion and the modern mind / Walter T. Stace ; Human freedom and the self / Roderick M. Chisholm ; Free will: ancient dispute, new themes / Robert Kane ; The preconditions of virtue, from Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle ; Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility / Harry Frankfurt ; Moral luck / Thomas Nagel ; Sanity and the metaphysics of responsibility / Susan Wolf.; title: pt. 5. Morality and its critics. Psychological egoism / Joel Feinberg ; Ethical egoism, from Elements of moral philosophy / James Rachels ; The immoralist's challenge, from Republic, Book II / Plato ; Master and slave morality, from Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche ; Ethical subjectivism / Russ Shafer-Landau ; Trying out one's new sword, from Heart and mind / Mary Midgley ; The nature of virtue, from Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle ; Leviathan, part I, chapters XIII-XV / Thomas Hobbes ; Justice as fairness, from A theory of justice / John Rawls ; God and morality / Philip L. Quinn ; The good will & The categorical imperative, from Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant ; Utilitarianism, chapters 1 and 2 / John Stuart Mill ; What makes right acts right?, from The right and the good / W.D. Ross ; Crito / Plato ; Judging other cultures : the case of genital mutilation / Martha Nussbaum ; Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer ; Kantian approaches to some famine problems / Onora O'Neill ; The survival lottery / John Harris ; Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels ; All animals are equal.