Exploring philosophy : an introductory anthology /
Extensively revised and expanded in this fourth edition, Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology is a uniquely accessible and engaging introduction to philosophy. Steven M. Cahn brings together exceptionally clear recent essays by noted philosophers and supplements them with influential hist...
| Други автори: | Cahn, Steven M. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2012.
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| Издание: | 4th ed. |
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Съдържание:
- Introduction
- What is philosophy? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley
- 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
- What is knowledge? / A.J. Ayer
- Is justified true belief knowledge? / Edmund L Gettier
- Conditions for knowledge / Robert Nozick
- Appearance and reality / Bertrand Russell
- What can I know? / D. Z. Phillips
- The problem of induction / Bertrand Russell
- Induction without problem / P. F. Strawson
- 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
- Knowing what it's like / David Lewis
- Computing machinery and intelligence / Alan Turing
- Do computers think? / John Searle
- Free will / Thomas Nagel
- Free will and determinism / W.T. Stace
- Freedom or determinism? / Steven M. Cahn
- The principle of alternative possibilities / Harry Frankfurt
- The capacities of agents / Neil Levy
- Does God exist? / Ernest Nagel
- Why God allows evil / Richard Swinburne
- Theology and falsification / Antony Flew and Basil Mitchell
- Pascal's wager / Simon Blackburn
- Faith and reason / Michael Scriven
- The hiddenness of God / Robert McKim
- A case of identity / Brian Smart
- The problem of personal identity / John Perry
- Resurrection / John H. Hick
- Heaven and hell / Steven M. Cahn
- Life after death / Terence Penelhum
- Do we need immortality? / Grace M. Jantzen
- The challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels
- How not to answer moral questions / Tom Regan
- Kant's ethics / Onora O'Neill
- Assessing utilitarianism / Louis P. Pojman
- A supreme moral principle? / Steven M. Cahn
- Virtue ethics / Bernard Mayo
- The ethics of care / Virginia Held
- Happiness and morality / Christine Vitrano
- 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 to Rachels / Thomas D. Sullivan
- Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer
- World hunger and moral obligation: the case against Singer / John Arthur
- Democracy / John Dewey
- What is a liberal education? / Sidney Hook
- Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr.
- Political action: the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer
- A theory of justice / John Rawls
- Distributive justice / Robert Nozick
- The idea of justice / Amartya Sen
- Non-contractual society: a feminist view / Virginia Held
- The role of theory in aesthetics / Morris Weitz
- Interpreting poetry / Charles L. Stevenson
- Fearing fictions / Kendall Walton
- The meaning of life / Richard Taylor
- Meaning in life / Susan Wolf
- Meaningless lives? / Steven M. Cahn
- Death / Thomas Nagel
- The value of philosophy / Bertrand Russell
- The republic / Plato.