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Title

The world of philosophy : an introductory reader / edited by Steven M. Cahn.

Publication

• New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Cahn, Steven M.

Description

xiii, 594 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Introductions
• Philosophy > Introductions

Genre/Form

Introductions.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Nature of Philosophy -- Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley: What Is Philosophy? -- Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy -- Plato: Defence of Socrates -- Plato: Crito -- Plato: Phaedo -- Reasoning -- Steven M. Cahn, Patricia Kitcher, and George Sher: What is Reason? -- Carl G. Hempel: Scientific Inquiry -- Gillian Barker and Philip Kitcher: Antiscientism -- René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy -- John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding -- Gottfried Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding -- George Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge -- David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -- Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason -- A. J. Ayer: What Is Knowledge? -- Edmund L. Gettier: Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? -- Uma Narayan: The Project of Feminist Epistemology -- Nagarjuna: Examination of the Senses -- Reality -- Mind and Body -- René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy -- Gilbert Ryle: The Ghost in the Machine -- Paul M. Churchland: The Mind-Body Problem -- Thomas Nagel: What Is It Like to Be a Bat? -- Frank Jackson: The Qualia Problem -- Alan Turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence -- John Searle: Do Computers Think? -- Barbara Montero: The Body Problem -- The Self -- Joel Kupperman: Hinduism and the Self -- The Upanishads -- Thomas P. Kasulis: The Buddhist Concept of Self -- David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature -- Identity -- Brian Smart: A Case of Identity -- John Perry: The Problem of Personal Identity -- John Locke: Of Identity and Diversity -- Thomas Reid: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man -- Terence Penelhum: Identity and Immortality -- Free Will -- Thomas Nagel: Free Will -- W. T. Stace: Free Will and Determinism -- Steven M. Cahn: Freedom or Determinism? -- Kitaro Nishida: The Freedom of the Will -- Religion -- Religious Beliefs -- Anselm and Gaunilo: The Ontological Argument -- Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways -- William L. Rowe: The Kalam Cosmological Argument -- William Paley: Natural Theology -- Ernest Nagel: Does God Exist? -- The Problem of Evil -- Richard Swinburne: Why God Allows Evil -- Eleonore Stump: Knowledge, Freedom, and the Problem of Evil -- Kwame Gyekye: The Problem of Evil: An Akan Perspective -- Raynor Johnson: Karma and Rebirth -- Whitley R. P. Kaufman: Karma, Rebirth, and the Problem of Evil -- Belief Without Proof -- Blaise Pascal: The Wager -- Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski: Pascal's Wager: An Assessment -- W. K. Clifford: The Ethics of Belief -- William James: The Will to Believe -- Religious Diversity -- Philip L. Quinn and Kevin Meeker: The Challenge of Religious Diversity -- Jeffery D Long: The Jain Path -- Mahapurana -- Ray Billington: The Tao -- Tao Te Ching -- Twelve Zen Stories -- Ninian Smart: The Muslim Experience -- The Qur'an -- Gustavo Gutierrez: Liberation Theology -- Vine Deloria, Jr.: God Is Red: A Native View of Religion -- John H. Hick: Religious Pluralism and Salvation -- Dalai Lama: Inrerreligious Harmony -- Moral Theory -- Steven M. Cahn: God and Morality -- Mary Midgley: Moral Isolationism -- James Rachels: Egoism and Moral Skepticism -- Immanuel Kant: The Categorical Imperative -- John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism -- Aristotle: The Nature of Virtue -- Kwame Gyekye: Character in Akan Ethics -- Virginia Held: The Ethics of Care -- Eriedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil -- Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism Is a Humanism -- Christopher W. Gowans: The Buddha's Message -- The Dhammapada -- Henry Rosemont, Jr.: Confucian Morality -- The Analects -- Moral Problems -- Abortion -- Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion -- Mary Anne Warren: On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion -- Don Marquis: Why Abortion Is Immoral -- Euthanasia -- James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia -- Bonnie Steinbock: The Intentional Termination of Life -- World Hunger -- Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality -- Travis Timmerman: A Reply to Singer -- Society -- Plato: The Republic -- Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan -- Karl Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 -- John Stuart Mill: On Liberty -- John Dewey: Democracy -- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail -- Jorge M, Valadez: Developing Democratic Citizenship in Multicultural Societies -- John Rawls: A Theory of Justice -- Robert Nozick: Distributive Justice -- Virginia Held: Non-contractual Society: A Feminist View -- Iris Marion Young: Fives Faces of Oppression -- Kwame Anthony Appiah: Globalizing Human Rights -- The Good Life -- The Bhagavad Gita -- Xunzi: A Discussion of Heaven -- Epicurus: Writings -- Ecclesiastes -- The Gospel According to Matthew -- Epictetus: The Handbook -- Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus -- Richard Taylor: The Meaning of Life -- Susan Wolf: Meaning in Life -- Christine Vitrano: Meaningful Lives -- Thich Nhat Hanh: Realizing Well-Being.

Call Number

JFE 20-1024

ISBN

• 9780190691905
• 0190691905

LCCN

2018003761

OCLC

1030446412

Title

The world of philosophy : an introductory reader / edited by Steven M. Cahn.

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

Second Edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cahn, Steven M., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1024