Philosophy and Contemporary Issues

Name: Philosophy and Contemporary Issues
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ISBN: 9780130209931

ISBN-10: 0130209937

ISBN-13: 9780130209931

Edition: 8th 2000

Authors: John R. Burr, Milton Goldinger

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Book details

List price: $67.00
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/26/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 548
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.21" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



General Introduction



The Apology




Freedom And Determinism



The Delusion of Free Will




Freedom of Choice and Human Responsibility




The Problem of Free Will




Walden Two: Selections




Ignoble Utopias




An Address Delivered to the Prisoners in the Chicago County Jail




The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment




God, the Arch-Hypnotist




Fate




God And Religion



Seven Reasons Why a Scientist Believes in God




The Delusion of Design and Purpose




The Evidential Value of Religious Experience




The Basis of the Moral Law




Why I Am Not a Christian




God and the Problem of Evil




The Problem of Evil




The Ethics of Belief




The Will to Believe




My Confession




Cacodaemony: A Puzzle about God




Morality And Society



Ethical Relativism




The Morality Trap




Utilitarianism




The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule




Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor




Insiders and Outsiders




An Almost Absolute Value in History




A Defense of Abortion




The Case for Torture




R.S.V.P., A Story




State And Society



The Philosophical Presuppostions of Democracy




Democratic Tyranny




Man's Rights




A Moral Case for Socialism




The State




Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look




Pornography




The Ethics of Addiction: An Argument in Favor of Letting Americans Take Any Drug They Want




Paternalism




The Prisoner's Dilemma




Is It Rational to Be an Informed Voter?




Mind And Body



Materialism




The Mind as Distinct from the Body




Sense Without Matter




The Problem of Other Minds




Brain Transplants and Personal Identity: A Dialogue




Can a Machine Think?




Human Beings and Machines




Considerations Against the Belief in Immortality




Parable of the Chinese Room




Knowledge And Science



Meditations I and II




Empiricism




Skepticism




The Detective as Scientist




The Limits and the Value of Scientific Method




The Nature of Science and of Theories on Origins




Theories, Facts, and Gods: Philosophical Aspects of the Creation Evolution Controversy




Brains in Vats




The Problem of the Criterion



Epilogue


Glossary