Readings on Ultimate Questions An Introduction to Philosophy

Name: Readings on Ultimate Questions An Introduction to Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780205731985

ISBN-10: 0205731988

ISBN-13: 9780205731985

Edition: 3rd 2010

Authors: Nils Rauhut, Robert Bass, Robert H. Bass

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Accessible and engaging, this brief and inexpensive anthology provides contemporary and classical readings in the key areas of Introductory Philosophy. This brief, low-cost, anthology is only33.00 net, much less than similar anthologies. Designed to be used on its own or with its companion text, Ultimate Questions: Thinking About Philosophy 3e, this collection of readings covers the major topic areas in philosophy: Knowledge; Free Will; Personal Identity; Mind/Body; God; Ethics; and Political Philosophy. While focusing primarily on contemporary philosophy, it also includes many of the classic works essential to an introductory course.

Book details

List price: $106.65
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 9/22/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.90" wide x 9.10" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Preface


About the Authors



Whv Study Philosophy?


What Is Enlightenment?



Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect



Letter to Menoeceus



Philosophy, a Bus Ride



Apology



The Value of Philosophy




What Do We Know?


Meditations 1 and 2



A Skeptic's Manifesto



The Lure of Radical Skepticism



Appearance and Reality



An Essay Concerning Human Understanding



A Priori Justification




Do We Have Free Will?


Determinism



Compatibilism



Beyond Compatibilism: A Buddhist Approach to Freedom and Determinism



The Consequence Argument



Human Freedom and the Self



Libertarianism




Is There an Enduring Self?


A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality



ï¿½No-Selfï¿½in Buddhism



The Judaic-Christian Conception of the Person



A Critique of Locke's Theory of Personal Identity



Brain Transplants and Personal Identity



Where Am I?



Feminist Perspectives on the Self




What is the Mind?


They're Made Out of Meat Terry Bisson


An Argument for Dualism from ï¿½Alcibiades Iï¿½



A Critique of Dualism



A Defense of Dualism



Philosophical Behaviorism



The Nature of Mind



Mad Pain and Martian Pain



Arguments Against Materialism




Does God Exist?


The Evidential Value of Religious Experience



The Five Ways



The Ontological Argument



The Cosmological Argument



A Debate on the Cosmological Argument



Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference



Born-Again Creationism



You Bet Your Life: Pascal's Wager Defended



The Problem of Evil



Why God Allows Evil



TheEthics of Belief



The Will to Believe



Male-Chauvinist Religion




what ought we To DO?


The Objective Basis of Morality



Relativism



Must God's Commands Conform to Moral Standards?



Reflective Equilibrium



The Principle of Utility



Push-Pin and Poetry



Higher and Lower Pleasures



Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals



Maria von Herbert's Challenge to Kant



Nicomachean Ethics



Regarding the Last Frontier of Bigotry



Do Animals Have Rights?



The Case for Gay Marriage



The Case against Gay Marriage



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