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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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