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Philosophy Traditional and Experimental Readings

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ISBN-10: 0199775257

ISBN-13: 9780199775255

Edition: 2013

Authors: Fritz Allhoff, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols

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Recently, the fields of empirical and experimental philosophy have generated tremendous excitement, due to unexpected results that have challenged philosophical dogma. Responding to this trend,Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readingsis the first introductory philosophy reader to integrate cutting-edge work in empirical and experimental philosophy with traditional philosophy.Featuring coverage that is equal parts historical, contemporary, and empirical/experimental, this topically organized reader provides students with a unique introduction to both the core and the vanguard of philosophy. The text is enhanced by pedagogical tools including commentary on each reading and chapter,…    
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List price: $82.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Knowledge and Reality
Belief in God
Introduction
Proslogion
A Reply on Behalf of the Fool
Summa Theologiae
Natural Theology
Pens�es
The Argument from Evil
The Future of an Illusion
Warranted Christian Belief
Are Children "Intuitive Theists"?
Breaking the Spell
Skepticism and the Analysis of Knowledge
Introduction
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Meditation I: Concerning Those Things That Can Be Called into Doubt
Principles of Human Knowledge
Proof of an External World
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
What Is Justified Belief?
Meta-Skepticism: Meditations in Ethno-Epistemology
Explanation and Causation
Introduction
Physics, Posterior Analytics, Parts of Animals
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
The Perception of Causality
Causation
Learning from Doing
Mind and Self
Mental States
Introduction
How Can Souls Move Bodies?
The Duel between Body and Soul
Brain Damage, Mind Damage, and Dualism
Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes
Against Arguments from Reference
The Persistence of the Attitudes
Real Patterns
Why the Child's Theory of Mind Really Is a Theory
Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist
Consciousness
Introduction
Meditations on First Philosophy
The Monadology
On the Hypothesis that Animals Are Automata, and Its History
Epiphenomenal Qualia
The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
The Hornswoggle Problem
Visual Perception and Visual Awareness after Brain Damage: A Tutorial
Ten Problems of Consciousness
Folk Psychology and Phenomenal Consciousness
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Introduction
The Compatibility of Freedom and Determinism
Human Freedom and the Self
The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility
Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person
Surveying Freedom: Folk Instuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility
The Illusion of Conscious Will
Free Will and Luck
Persons and the Self
Introduction
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Treatise of Human Nature
Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons
First Person Plural
Value Theory
Meta-Ethics
Introduction
Culture Is King
Why Be Moral?
Emotivism
Error Theory
The Moral Problem
The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
Empirical Approaches to Meta-Ethics
Folk Meta-Ethical Commitments
Normative Ethics
Introduction
Nicomachean Ethics
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Utilitarianism
Persons, Situations, and Virtue Ethics
From Neural "Is" to Moral "Ought"
Epilogue: Philosophical Methodology
Introduction
Meno
Philosophical Investigations
Plato's Method Meets Cognitive Science
Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Intuition
Glossary
About the Editors