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Readings on the ultimate questions : an introduction to philosophy
2010
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Accessible and engaging, this brief and inexpensive anthology provides contemporary and classical readings in the key areas of Introductory Philosophy.

Designed to be used on its own or with its companion text, Ultimate Questions: Thinking About Philosophy 3e, this collection of readings covers the major topic areas in philosophy: Knowledge; Free Will; Personal Identity; Mind/Body; God; Ethics; and Political Philosophy. While focusing primarily on contemporary philosophy, it also includes many of the classic works essential to an introductory course.

- (PEARSON)

Accessible and engaging, this brief and inexpensive anthology provides contemporary and classical readings in the key areas of Introductory Philosophy.

 

Designed to be used on its own or with its companion text, Ultimate Questions: Thinking About Philosophy 3e, this collection of readings covers the major topic areas in philosophy: Knowledge; Free Will; Personal Identity; Mind/Body; God; Ethics; and Political Philosophy. While focusing primarily on contemporary philosophy, it also includes many of the classic works essential to an introductory course.

- (PEARSON)

Author Biography

Nils Ch. Rauhut studied philosophy and history at the University of Regensburg (Germany). He received an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Washington in Seattle. He taught at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and he is currently teaching at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.

- (PEARSON)

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Table of Contents

Preface vi
About the Authors viii
Why Study Philosophy?
1(30)
What is Enlightenment?
2(6)
Immanuel Kant
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
8(3)
Baruch Spinoza
Letter to Menoeceus
11(1)
Epicurus
Philosophy, a Bus Ride, and Dumb Luck
12(3)
Alfred Mele
Apology
15(12)
Plato
The Value of Philosophy
27(4)
Bertrand Russell
What Do We Know?
31(44)
Meditations 1 and 2
32(9)
Rene Descartes
A Skeptic's Manifesto
41(6)
Michael Shermer
The Lure of Radical Skepticism
47(10)
Michael Huermer
Appearance and Reality
57(5)
Bertrand Russell
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
62(8)
John Locke
A Priori Justification
70(5)
Laurence Bonjour
Do We Have Free Will?
75(58)
Determinism
76(3)
Richard Taylor
Compatibilism
79(7)
W. T. Stace
Beyond Compatibilism: A Buddhist Approach to Freedom and Determinism
86(14)
Mark Siderits
The Consequence Argument
100(6)
Peter van Inwagen
Human Freedom and the Self
106(8)
Roderick Chisholm
Libertarianism
114(19)
Robert Kane
Is There an Enduring Self?
133(62)
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
135(10)
John Perry
``No-Self'' in Buddhism
145(7)
Ronald S. Green
The Judaic-Christian Conception of the Person
152(9)
John Hick
A Critique of Locke's Theory of Personal Identity
161(4)
Thomas Reid
Brain Transplants and Personal Identity
165(7)
Derek Parfit
Godfrey Vesey
Where Am I?
172(11)
Daniel C. Dennett
Feminist Perspectives on the Self
183(12)
Diana Meyers
What is the Mind?
195(68)
They're Made Out of Meat
197(2)
Terry Bisson
An Argument for Dualism from ``Alcibiades I''
199(3)
Plato
A Critique of Dualism
202(12)
Paul Churchland
A Defense of Dualism
214(5)
John Foster
Philosophical Behaviorism
219(12)
John Heil
The Nature of Mind
231(10)
David Armstrong
Mad Pain and Martian Pain
241(8)
David Lewis
Arguments Against Materialism
249(14)
John R. Searle
Does God Exist?
263(114)
The Evidential Value of Religious Experience
265(11)
D. E. Trueblood
The Five Ways
276(2)
St. Thomas Aquinas
The Ontological Argument
278(6)
Nils Ch. Rauhut
The Cosmological Argument
284(8)
Richard Taylor
A Debate on the Cosmological Argument
292(9)
F. C. Copleston
Bertrand Russell
Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference
301(13)
Michael J. Behe
Born-Again Creationism
314(9)
Philip Kitcher
You Bet Your Life: Pascal's Wager Defended
323(13)
George Schlesinger
William Lycan
The Problem of Evil
336(5)
B. C. Johnson
Why God Allows Evil
341(10)
Richard Swinburne
The Ethics of Belief
351(5)
William Clifford
The Will to Believe
356(8)
William James
Male-Chauvinist Religion
364(13)
Deborah Mathieu
What Ought we To Do?
377(92)
The Objective Basis of Morality
379(4)
Thomas Nagel
Relativism
383(2)
Janet Radcliffe Richards
Must God's Commands Conform to Moral Standards?
385(3)
James Rachels
Reflective Equilibrium
388(8)
Robert Bass
The Principle of Utility
396(6)
Jeremy Bentham
Push-Pin and Poetry
402(1)
Jeremy Bentham
Higher and Lower Pleasures
403(4)
John Stuart Mill
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
407(9)
Immanuel Kant
Maria von Herbert's Challenge to Kant
416(13)
Rae Langton
Nicomachean Ethics
429(13)
Aristotle
Regarding the Last Frontier of Bigotry
442(8)
David DeGrazia
Do Animals Have Rights?
450(10)
Carl Cohen
The Case for Gay Marriage
460(5)
Michael Nava
Robert Dawidoff
The Case Against Gay Marriage
465(4)
Manuel A. Lopez
Credits 469

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