Philosophy for the 21st Century A Comprehensive Reader
by Cahn, Steven M.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-11-21
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Philosophy for the 21st Century is the most comprehensive and challengingtopically organized introductory anthology available. It covers all the majorareas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy ofreligion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, political philosophy,philosophy of science, and aesthetics. A unique collection, it features classicand contemporary selections chosen by a team of young associate editors. Thesescholars--Delia Graff, Robin Jeshion, L. A. Paul, Jesse Prinz, Stuart Rachels,Gabriela Sakamoto, David Sosa, and Cynthia A. Stark--are at the forefront of21st-century philosophy. Each section of the book has been carefully structuredin order to maximize continuity among the readings. The volume includessubstantial readings from such leading contemporary philosophers as David Lewis,Robert Nozick, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, and Sydney Shoemaker. An introductoryessay by Simon Blackburn presents elements of symbolic logic that help studentsbetter comprehend technical passages in the book.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| About the Editors | |
| Introduction | |
| What Is Philosophy? | |
| The Elements of Logic | |
| Philosophy of Religion | |
| Introduction | |
| Euthyphro | |
| The Ontological Argument | |
| In Behalf of the Fool | |
| Critique of the Ontological Argument | |
| Is Existence a Predicate? | |
| Why the Ontological Argument Fails | |
| Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God | |
| The Cosmological Argument | |
| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | |
| Why God Allows Evil | |
| The Moriarty Hypothesis | |
| The Will to Believe | |
| William James and the Will to Believe | |
| The Hiddenness of God | |
| Epistemology | |
| Introduction | |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
| Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous | |
| Proof of an External World | |
| On Certainty | |
| The Problem of the Criterion | |
| Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? | |
| Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge | |
| Knowledge and Scepticism | |
| The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence Versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge | |
| Elusive Knowledge | |
| Epistemology Naturalized | |
| What Is "Naturalized Epistemology"? | |
| Philosophy of Science | |
| Introduction | |
| An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | |
| The Traditional Problem of Induction | |
| The Inference to the Best Explanation | |
| The Experimental Method | |
| Aspects of Scientific Explanation | |
| The Truth Doesn't Explain Much | |
| The New Riddle of Induction | |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | |
| Realism and the Theory-Dependence of Experimental Design | |
| Metaphysics | |
| Introduction | |
| On the Relations of Universals and Particulars | |
| Properties | |
| The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetached Parts | |
| Many, but Almost One | |
| Of Identity and Diversity | |
| Personal Identity and Memory | |
| Personal Identity | |
| Of Motion | |
| Achilles and the Tortoise | |
| Of the Idea of Necessary Connection | |
| Causation | |
| The Sea-Battle Tomorrow | |
| The Problem of Future Contingencies | |
| Freedom and Necessity | |
| Human Freedom and the Self | |
| Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility | |
| The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism | |
| Philosophy of Mind | |
| Introduction | |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
| The Causes of Behavior | |
| Sensations and Brain Processes | |
| The Mind-Body Problem | |
| Computing Machinery and Intelligence | |
| Can Computers Think? | |
| The "Causal Power"of Machines | |
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