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About Philosophy, 10th Edition | |
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What is Philosophy What Do Philosophers Do? | |
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The Study of Human Nature | |
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The Study of the Universe | |
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Human Nature and the Universe | |
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The Limitations of the Western Philosophical Tradition | |
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Philosophy and the Philosopher | |
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Theory of Knowledge Descartes' Method of Doubt | |
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Rationalism and Empiricism: Two Responses to Cartesian Doubt | |
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Leibniz and Rationalism | |
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Hume and Empiricism | |
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Kant's Resolution of the Rationalism/Empiricism Debate | |
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New Turns in Epistemology | |
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Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind | |
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What Is Metaphysics? | |
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Hobbes' Materialism | |
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Free Will and Determinism | |
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The Mind and the Body | |
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Philosophy of Science The Place of Science in the Modern World | |
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Francis Bacon and the Foundations of Scientific Method | |
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The Relation Between Theory and Observation | |
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Karl Popper and Falsifiability | |
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Thomas Kuhn's Theory of Scientific Revolutions | |
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Sciene as a Social Institution | |
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Voices Beyond Popper and Kuhn | |
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Ethical Theory (Pt. I) | |
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The Varieties of Ethical Theory | |
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Kant and the Commands of Duty | |
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Three Reasons to Think About Ethics | |
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Ethical Disagreement and the Categorical Imperative | |
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Utilitarianism and the Calculation of Pleasures and Pains | |
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Virtue Ethics | |
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The Feminist Critique of Ethical Theory | |
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Ethical Theory (Pt. II) - The Ethical Dimensions of Medicine | |
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The Ethical Dimensions of Medical Decisions | |
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Withholdiing Food and Water | |
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The Buying and Selling of human Organs | |
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What Should the Doctor Tell the Patient? | |
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Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application | |
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Social and Political Philosophy Mill and Classical Laissez-Faire Liberalism | |
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The Socialist Attack on Capitalism | |
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Rousseau and the Theory of the Social Contract | |
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The Pluralist Theory of the State | |
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The Racial Critique of the Social Contract Theory of the State | |
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Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application | |
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Philosophy of Art Plato's Attack on the Poets | |
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Aristotle's Defense of the Poets | |
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Marcuse and the Uses of Negation | |
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Arthur C. Danto's Theory of Artistic Indentification | |
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Main Points/Questions for Discussion and Review/Contemporary Application | |
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Philosophy of Religion | |
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Kierkegaard's Encounter with Faiths | |
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Can We Prove That God Exists? | |
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William Paley: The Argument from Design | |
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St. Thomas Aquinas: The Cosmological Argument | |
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St. Anselm: The Ontological Argument | |
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The Problem of Evil | |
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