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Title

Exploring philosophy : an introductory anthology / edited by Steven M. Cahn.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cahn, Steven M.

Description

xii, 433 pages; 25 cm

Summary

A collection of essays by prominent contemporary philosophers in which they explore some of the central questions of the field, discussing reasoning, knowledge and self, God, morality, society, and the meaning of life.

Subject

• Philosophy > Textbooks
• Philosophy > Introductions
• Philosophy
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Philosophie
• Filosofie

Genre/Form

• Introductions
• Textbooks
• Textbooks.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-423) and index.

Contents

• What is philosophy? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley -- Defence of Socrates / Plato -- Scope of logic / Wesley C. Salmon -- Improving your thinking / Stephen F. Barker -- Fixing belief / Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel -- Testing hypotheses / Stephen M. Cahn, Patricia Kitcher, and George Sher -- Science and common sense / Ernest Nagel -- Appearance and reality / Bertrand Russell -- What can I know? / D.Z. Phillips -- Problem of induction / Bertrand Russell -- Will the future be like the past? / Frederick L. Will -- Free will or determinism? / Steven M. Cahn -- Free will and determinism / W.T. Stace -- Mind and body / Richard Taylor -- Death / Thomas Nagel -- Meno / Plato -- Meditations on First Philosophy / René Descartes -- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / David Hume -- Does God exist? / Ernest Nagel -- Why God allows evil / Richard Swinburne -- Theology and falsification / Anthony Flew and Basil Mitchell -- Do miracles occur? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley -- Faith / Richard Taylor -- Faith and reason / Michael Scriven -- Euthyphro / Plato -- Summa Theologiae / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Meditations on First Philosophy / René Descartes -- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / David Hume -- Challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels -- How not to answer moral questions / Tom Regan -- Nature of ethical disagreement / Charles L. Stevenson.
• Supreme moral principle? / Steven M. Cahn -- Abortion / Joel Feinberg -- Giving birth / Virginia Held -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Active and passive euthanasia : a reply / Thomas D. Sullivan -- Choosing death / Sidney Hook -- Nocomachean Ethics / Aristotle -- Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals / Immanuel Kant -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Democracy / John Dewey -- Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer -- Privacy / Charles Fried -- Death penalty / Burton Leiser -- Capital punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Two concepts of affirmative action / Steven M. Cahn -- Are quotas sometimes justified? / James Rachels -- What is a liberal education? / Sidney Hook -- Crito / Plato -- On Liberty / John Stuart Mill -- Meaning of life / Richard Taylor -- Value of philosophy / Bertrand Russell -- Phaedo / Plato.

ISBN

• 0195136195 alk. paper)
• 9780195136197 alk. paper)
• 0195133528
• 9780195133523

LCCN

99029797

OCLC

• ocm41338083
• 41338083
• SCSB-1033424

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library