Introduction to philosophy : classical and contemporary readings / edited by John Perry, John Martin Fischer, Michael Bratman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer, John.

Contributor:

Perry, John, 1943- editor.

Bratman, Michael, editor.

Fischer, John Martin, 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--Textbooks.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xii, 809 ; 24 cm

Edition:

Ninth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Philosophy

Logical Toolkit

Writing Philosophy Papers

Bertrand Russell, "The Value of Philosophy"

Plato, "Apology: Defence of Socrates"

pt. II God And Evil

A. Why Believe?

Saint Anselm, "The Ontological Argument"

Saint Thomas Aquinas, "The Existence of God"

William Paley, "Natural Theology"

William James, "The Will to Believe"

B. The Problem of Evil

David Hume, "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion"

Gottfried Leibniz, "God, Evil and the Best of All Possible Worlds"

William L. Rowe, "The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism"

Marilyn McCord Adams, "Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God"

Stewart Sutherland, "Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God"

Eleonore Stump, "The Mirror of Evil"

Louise M. Antony, "For the Love of Reason"

pt. III Knowledge And Reality

A. Plato, Descartes, and the Problems of Skepticism

Plato, "Allegory of the Cave"

Robert Nozick, "The Experience Machine"

Rene Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"

Keith DeRose and Ted A. Warfield, "Responding to Skepticism"

Peter J. Graham, "Skepticism: Structure and Response"

B. Hume's Problems and Some Solutions

David Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"

W. C. Salmon, "The Problem of Induction"

pt. IV Minds, Bodies, And Persons

A. The Traditional Problem of Mind and Body

David M. Armstrong, "The Nature of Mind"

Paul M. Churchland, "Eliminative Materialism"

Frank Jackson, "What Mary Didn't Know"

Patricia Churchland, "Neurophilosophy"

B. Minds, Brains, and Machines

A. M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

John R. Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs"

C. Personal Identity

John Perry, "A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality"

Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity"

J. David Velleman, "So It Goes"

Daniel Dennett, "Where Am I?"

Marya Schechtman, "Personhood and Personal Identity"

Agnieszka Jaworska, "Respecting the Margins of Agency: Alzheimer's Patients and the Capacity to Value"

D. Freedom, Determinism, and Responsibility

Roderick M. Chisholm, "Human Freedom and the Self"

David Hume, "Of Liberty and Necessity"

Harry G. Frankfurt, "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility"

John Martin Fischer, "Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility"

Harry G. Frankfurt, "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person"

Gary Watson, "Free Agency"

Christian Helmut Wenzel, "Free Will and Zhuangzi: An Introduction"

pt. V Ethics And Society

A. Utilitarianism

Jeremy Bentham, "The Principle of Utility"

John Stuart Mill, "Utilitarianism"

E. F. Carritt, "Criticisms of Utilitarianism"

Mozi, "Excerpts from Mozi"

Peter Singer, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality"

B. Kantian Ethics

Immanuel Kant, "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals"

Onora O'Neill, "Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems"

C. Aristotelian Ethics

Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics"

Rosalind Hursthouse, "Right Action"

D. Justice and Equality

John Rawls, "A Theory of Justice"

Robert Nozick, "Justice and Entitlement"

John Stuart Mill, "The Subjection of Women"

Annette C. Baier, "The Need for More Than Justice"

Elizabeth Anderson, "What's Wrong with Inequality?"

E. Contemporary Moral Problems

Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion"

Debra Satz, "Markets in Women's Reproductive Labor"

Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Racisms"

Linda Martin Alcoff, "Racism and Visible Race"

pt. VI Existential Issues

A. Meaning in Life

Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus"

Thomas Nagel, "The Absurd"

Richard Taylor, "The Meaning of Human Existence"

Susan Wolf, "The Meanings of Lives"

B. Death

Thomas Nagel, "Death"

James Baillie, "Existential Shock"

John Martin Fischer, "Excerpt from Death, Immortality and Meaning in Life"

Amy Olberding, "Sorrow and the Sage: Grief in the Zhuangzi"

Jenann Ismael, "The Ethical Importance of Death"

Samuel Scheffler, "The Afterlife"

pt. VII Puzzles And Paradoxes

A. Zeno's Paradoxes

Achilles and the Tortoise

The Racecourse

Carl Ginet, "The Argument against Plurality"

B. Metaphysical and Epistemological Puzzles and Paradoxes

The Paradox of Identity

The Paradox of the Heap

The Surprise Examination

Goodman's New Riddle of Induction

C. Puzzles of Rational Choice

The Prisoner's Dilemma

Newcomb's Problem

Kavka's Toxin Puzzle

Quinn's Puzzle of the Self-Torturer

D. Paradoxes of Logic, Set Theory, and Semantics

The Paradox of the Liar

Other Versions of the Liar

Russell's Paradox

Grelling's Paradox

E. Puzzles of Ethics

The Trolley Problem

Ducking Harm and Sacrificing Others.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0197543812

9780197543818

0197543820

9780197543825

OCLC:

1243742541

Publisher Number:

99988913654