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Reason and Responsibility Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy

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ISBN-10: 1133608477

ISBN-13: 9781133608479

Edition: 15th 2014

Authors: Joel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau

List price: $184.95
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REASON AND RESPONSIBILITY: READINGS IN SOME BASIC PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY has a well-earned reputation for clarity and breadth, with a proven selection of high-quality readings that cover centuries of philosophical debate. The anthology includes the central issues in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and ethics, as well as debates over the value of philosophy and the meaning of life. The book is clearly organized so that the readings complement each other, guiding readers through contrasting positions on key philosophical issues. Clear, concise introductions provide reading tips and background information to help readers engage directly and meaningfully…    
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Book details

List price: $184.95
Edition: 15th
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 720
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.288

Joel Feinberg (1926-2004): In Memoriam
Preface
About Our Website
The Nature and Value of Philosophy
Joel Feinberg: A Logic Lesson
Plato: Apology
Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy
Reason and Religious Belief
The Existence and Nature of God
Anselm of Canterbury: The Ontological Argument, from Proslogion
Gaunilo of Marmoutiers: On Behalf of the Fool
The Ontological Argument
The Five Ways, from Summa Theologica
A Modern Formulation of the Cosmological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
The Argument from Design
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
The Problem of Evil
Rebellion
Evil and Omnipotence
The Argument from Evil
The Soul-Making Defense
God and the Problem of Evil
Reason and Faith
The Ethics of Belief
The Will to Believe
Without Evidence or Argument
The Wager
Miracles and Testimony
Human Knowledge: Its Grounds and Limits
Skepticism
A Brain in a Vat
Three Skeptical Arguments
The Problem of the Criterion
The Nature and Value of Knowledge
Knowledge as Justified True Belief
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
An Analysis of Knowledge
Knowing How and Knowing That
Meno
The Value of Knowledge
Our Knowledge of the External World
Appearance and Reality and the Existence of Matter
Meditations on First Philosophy
The Causal Theory of Perception
Of the Principles of Human Knowledge
Proof of an External World
The Methods of Science
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
An Encounter with David Hume
Science: Conjectures and Refutations
Believing Where We Cannot Prove
Mind and Its Place in Nature
The Mind-Body Problem
In Defense of Mind-Body Dualism
The Qualia Problem
The Mind Is the Brain
Functionalism and Eliminative Materialism
Can Non-Humans Think?
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Minds, Brains, and Programs
Robots and Minds
Personal Identity and the Survival of Death
Personal Identity
The Prince and the Cobbler
Of Mr. Locke's Account of Our Personal Identity
The Self
Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
Determinism, Free Will, and Responsibility
The Mysteries of Free Will
Freedom of the Will
Libertarianism: The Case for Free Well and its Incompatibility with Determinism
Human Freedom and the Self
free Will: Ancient Dispute, New Themes
Hard Determinism: The Case for Determinism and Its Incompatibility with Any Important Sense of Free Will
The Illusion of Free Will
Why We Have No Free Will and Can Live Without It
Compatibilism: The Case for Determinism and its Compatibility with the Most Important Sense of Free Will
Of Liberty and Necessity
Freedom and Necessity
Freedom and Moral Responsibility
The Maze of Free Will
Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility
Moral Luck
Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility
Morality and Its Critics
Challenges to Morality
Psychological Egoism
The Immoralist's Challenge
Master and Slave Morality
The Evolutionary Debunking of Morality
Proposed Standards of Right Conduct
Ethical Subjectivism
Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation
Virtue and the Good Life
Leviathan
Justice as Fairness
Euthyphro
The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative
Utilitarianism
What Makes Right Acts Right?
What Is Feminist Ethics?
Ethical Problems
Crito
The Singer Solution to World Poverty
The Survival Lottery
Active and Passive Euthanasia
A Defense of Abortion
Why Abortion Is Immoral
The Meaning of Life
Letter to Menoeceus
Brave New World
My Confession
God and the Meaning of Life
The Absurd
Glossary