About the Book
The most recent volume in Louis Pojman's highly successful Classics of Philosophy collection (OUP, 1998), Classics of Philosophy: Volume III, The Twentieth Century assembles definitive essays in twentieth-century Western philosophy. This work is considerably more comprehensive than the corresponding section of the single-volume edition of Classics of Philosophy. Its selections cover the whole spectrum of the field, representing the major
movements of the century including British Realism, American Pragmatism, Logical Positivism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Deconstructionism, and Ordinary Language Philosophy. Pojman includes fifty-four diverse and engaging
selections by thirty-nine leading philosophers, featuring the work of Ayer, Carnap, Davidson, Dennett, Derrida, Foucault, Gettier, Goldman, Habermas, Harrison, Heidegger, Husserl, Kripke, McTaggart, Moore, Nagel, Nozick, Putnam, Quine, Rawls, Rorty, Russell, Ryle, Sartre, Searle, Strawson, and Wittgenstein. Seminal works in the philosophy of mind, free will/determinism, the debate over religious truth, and political and moral philosophy are included. Ideal for courses in twentieth-century and
contemporary philosophy, the volume also includes an enlightening introduction, biographical sketches for each author, and abstracts and bibliographies for each selection.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
PART I: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ANALYTIC TRADITION
1. John M.E. McTaggart,The Unreality of Time
2. G.E. Moore
The Refutation of Idealism
A Defense of Common Sense
Proof of an External World
3. Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
The Theory of Definite Descriptions
A Debate on the Existence of God between Father F.C. Copleston and Bertrand Russell
4. Charles Sanders Peirce
How to Make Our Ideas Clear
The Presuppositions of Science: Common Sense and Religion
5. William James
The Will to Believe
What Pragmatism Means
The Pragmatic Notion of Truth
6. Rudolf Carnap,The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language
7. A.J. Ayer
The Abolition of Metaphysics
A Critique of Ethics and Theology
8. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Philosophical Investigations
9. J.L. Austin,Sense and Sensibilia: A Critique of the Theory of Sense Data
10. Karl Popper
Conjectures and Refutations
Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject
11. Thomas Kuhn,Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice
12. W.V.O. Quine
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Epistemology Naturalized
Ontological Relativity
13. Saul A. Kripke,A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency
14. Jonathan Harrison,A Defense of Empiricism
15. Edmund L. Gettier,Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
16. Alvin I. Goldman,What Is Justified Belief?
17. Nelson Goodman,The New Riddle of Induction
18. Donald Davidson,Truth and Meaning
19. Hilary Putnam,Meaning and Reference
20. Peter F. Strawson,Freedom and Resentment
21. Harry Frankfurt,Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person
22. Richard Taylor,A Defense of Libertarian Freedom of the Will
23. Anthony Flew, R.M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell,The Falsification Debate on Religious Belief
24. Gilbert Ryle,Exorcizing Descartes's "Ghost in the Machine"
25. Thomas Nagel
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Moral Luck
26. Daniel Dennett,The Intentional Stance
27. John Searle,Minds, Brains, and Programs [The Chinese Room]
28. Derek Parfit,Personal Identity
29. Robert Nozick
A Defense of Libertarianism
The Experience Machine
30. John Rawls,A Theory of Justice: Liberal Egalitarianism
31. Wallace Matson,Justice: A Funeral Oration
PART II: CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL AND POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY
32. Edmund Husserl,Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
33. Martin Heidegger
On Dasein and Anxiety
The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics
34. Jean-Paul Sartre
Bad Faith
Existentialism and Humanism
35. Michel Foucault,The Discourse on Language
36. Jacques Derrida,Plato's Pharmacy
37. Richard Rorty,Dismantling Truth: Solidarity Versus Objectivity
38. Margarita Rosa Levin,A Defense of Objectivity
39. Jurgen Habermas,Philosophy as Stand-In and Interpreter
