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Title

Reason at work : introductory readings in philosophy / [edited by] Steven M. Cahn, Patricia Kitcher, George Sher ; under the general editorship of Robert J. Fogelin.

Publication

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cahn, Steven M.
• Kitcher, Patricia.
• Sher, George.

Description

vii, 727 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Philosophy
• Philosophy
• philosophy
• Einführung
• Philosophie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• Part 1 Ethics -- Psychological egoism / Joel Feinberg -- Ethical relativism from problems of moral philosophy, second edition / Paul Taylor -- Ethics and observation from the nature of morality / Gilbert Harman -- Outline of a decision procedure for ethics / John Rawls -- Utilitarianism from utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Some problems with utilitariansim from the individual and the political order / Norman Bowie and Robert Simon -- Utilitarianism and non-utilitarian institutions from moral thinking / R.M. Hare -- Morality and rationality from the foundations of the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant -- Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives / Philippa Foot -- What makes right acts right from the right and the good / W.D. Ross -- The nature of moral virtue from nichomachean ethics / Aristotle -- Famine affluence and morality / Peter Singer.
• Part 2 Social and political philosophy -- What do we owe to our country from the crito / Plato -- Authority and security from leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- Limited government as a defender of property from second treatise of government / John Locke -- The principle of fairness from anarchy, state and utopia / Robert Nozick -- On liberty from on liberty / John Stuart Mill -- A theory of justice from a theory of justice / John Rawls -- Distributive justice from anarchy state and utopia / Robert Nozick -- Communism from the communist manifesto and critique of the gotha program / Karl Marx and Fridrich Engels -- On justice under socialism / Edward Nell and Onora O'Neill.
• Part 3 Theory of knowledge -- Knowledge as justified true belief from theaetetus / Plato -- Is justified true belief knowledge / Edmund L. Gettier III -- Certain knowledge from meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes -- Empiricism from an essay concerning human understanding / John Locke -- The problem of induction from an inquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume -- The new riddle of induction from fact fiction and forecast / Nelson Goodman -- The interdependence of beliefs from two dogmas of empiricism / W.V.O. Quine -- Innate knowledge / Alvin Goldman -- The appeal to the given from groundless belief / Michael Williams -- The utility of truth from truth and the lie, the gay science, beyond good and evil, geneology of morals, and the will to power / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Objectivity value judgements and theory choice from the essential tension / T.S. Kuhn -- Believing where we cannot prove from abusing science / Philip Kitcher.
• Metaphysics -- Real and nominal essence from an essay concerning human understanding / John Locke -- On possibility and necessity / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Metaphysical necessity from naming and necessity / Saul Kripke -- Personal identity from an essay concerning human understanding / John Locke -- The self and the future / Bernard Williams -- Later selves and moral principles / Derek Parfit -- Hard determinism from walden two / B.F. Skinner -- Radical freedom from being and nothingness / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Free will as involving determinism / R.E. Hobart -- Acting freely / Gerald Dworkin.
• Part 5 Philosophy of religion -- God and morality from the euthyphro / Plato -- The ontological argument from proslogian, a reply on behalf of the fool, and a reply by the author / Saint Anselm and Gaunilo -- Five proofs for the existence of God from summa theologica / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- A defense of atheism / Ernest Nagel -- The problem of evil / Richard Swinburne -- Theology and falsification / Antony Flew [and others] -- Religion reconsidered / Steven M. Cahn.
• Part 6 Philosophy of mind -- The functions of the soul from de anima / Aristotle -- Dualism from meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes -- The distinction between mental and physical phenomena from psychology from an empirical standpoint / Franz Brentano -- Behaviorism from science and human behavior / B.F. Skinner -- Skinner skinned / Daniel C. Dennett -- Linguistic contributions to the study of mind from language and mind / Noam Chomsky -- The central-state theory from a materialist theory of the mind / D.M. Armstrong -- Functionalism from psychological explanation Artificial intelligence as philosophy and as psychology / Daniel C. Dennett.

ISBN

• 0155759906
• 9780155759909

LCCN

83082439

OCLC

• ocm10914276
• 10914276
• SCSB-9573246

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library