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Praised for its accessibility and comprehensiveness, "Philosophy: The Quest for Truth" provides an excellent selection of classical and contemporary readings on nineteen key problems in philosophy. Louis P. Pojman has carefully organized the essays in each section so that they present pro/con dialogues that allow students to compare and contrast the philosophers' positions. The topics covered include the nature of philosophy, the existence of God, immortality, knowledge, the mind-body question, personal identity, free will and determinism, ethics, political philosophy, and the meaning of life. The sixth edition offers selections from Plato, Rene Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, William James, Bertrand Russell, John Hick, John Hospers, and James Rachels - as well as essays by Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Hobbes, George Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, Gilbert Ryle, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alvin Plantinga, and many others. In "Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, Sixth Edition", Pojman offers substantial introductions to each of the nineteen philosophical problems. In addition, each of the seventy-six readings is accompanied by an individual introduction with a biographical sketch of the philosopher, study questions, and reflective questions that challenge students to analyze and critique the material. Short bibliographies following each major section and a detailed glossary further enhance the text's pedagogical value. Invaluable for introductory courses in philosophy, this highly acclaimed text inspires and guides students' quest for wisdom. New to the Sixth Edition are: Six selections: "William Lane Craig: The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Anthropic Principle"; "William Rowe: An Analysis of the Ontological Argument"; "Daniel Dennett: Postmodernism and Truth"; "William James: The Dilemma of Determinism"; "Harry Frankfurt: Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person"; "John Rawls: The Contemporary Liberal Answer"; a student Online Resource Centre featuring study and review questions, discussion questions, chapter overviews and summaries, topical links, suggestions for further reading, and PowerPoint lecture aids; and more exercises in the excursus on logic.

Table of Contents:
*=NEW TO THIS EDITION; EACH PART OPENS WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND ENDS WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; Preface; I. WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?; 1. Plato: Socratic Wisdom; 2. John Locke: Of Enthusiasm and the Quest for Truth; 3. Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy; Excursus: A Little Bit of Logic; II. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION; II.A. IS BELIEF IN GOD RATIONALLY JUSTIFIED? ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD; 4. Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways; 5. WILLIAM LANE CRAIG: THE KALAM COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT AND THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE; 6. Paul Edwards: A Critique of the Cosmological Argument; 7. William Paley: The Watch and the Watchmaker; 8. David Hume: A Critique of the Teleological Argument; 9. St. Anselm and Gaunilo: The Ontological Argument; 10. WILLIAM ROWE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT; II.B. WHY IS THERE EVIL?; 11. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Why Is There Evil?; 12. B.C. Johnson: Why Doesn't God Intervene to Prevent Evil?; 13. John Hick: There Is a Reason Why God Allows Evil; II.C. IS FAITH COMPATIBLE WITH REASON?; 14. Blaise Pascal: Yes, Faith Is a Logical Bet; 15. W.K. Clifford: The Ethics of Belief; 16. William James: The Will to Believe; 17. Antony Flew, R.M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell: A Debate on the Rationality of Religious Belief; 18. Alvin Plantinga: Religious Belief Without Evidence; III. KNOWLEDGE; III.A. WHAT CAN WE KNOW? CLASSICAL THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE; 19. Rene Descartes: Cartesian Doubt and the Search for Foundational Knowledge; 20. John Locke: The Empiricist Theory of Knowledge; 21. George Berkeley: An Idealist Theory of Knowledge; 22. David Hume: The Origin of Our Ideas and Skepticism about Causal Reasoning; 23. John Hospers: An Argument Against Skepticism; III.B. TRUTH, RATIONALITY, AND COGNITIVE RELATIVISM; 24. Bertrand Russell: The Correspondence Theory of Truth; 25. William James: The Pragmatic Theory of Truth; 26. Richard Rorty: Dismantling Truth: Solidarity versus Objectivity; 27. DANIEL DENNETT: POSTMODERNISM AND TRUTH; IV. PHILOSOPHY OF MIND: THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM; IV.A. WHAT AM I? A MIND OR A BODY?; 28. Rene Descartes: Dualistic Interactionism; 29. Gilbert Ryle: Exorcising Descartes' "Ghost in the Machine"; 30. J.P. Moreland: A Contemporary Defense of Dualism; 31. Paul Churchland: On Functionalism and Materialism; 32. Thomas Nagel: What Is It Like to Be a Bat?; 33. John Searle: Minds, Brains, and Computers; IV.B. WHO AM I? DO WE HAVE PERSONAL IDENTITY?; 34. John Locke: Our Psychological Properties Define the Self; 35. David Hume: We Have No Substantial Self with Which We Are Identical; 36. Derek Parfit and Godfrey Vesey: Brain Transplants and Personal Identity: A Dialogue; IV.C. IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH? AM I IMMORTAL?; 37. Plato: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul; 38. Paul Edwards: An Argument Against Survival: The Dependence of Consciousness on the Brain; 39. John Hick: In Defense of Immortality; V. FREEDOM OF THE WILL AND DETERMINISM; 40. Baron d'Holbach: We Are Completely Determined; 41. WILLIAM JAMES: THE DILEMMA OF DETERMINISM; 42. Corliss Lamont: Freedom of the Will and Human Responsibility; 43. W.T. Stace: Compatibilism; 44. HARRY FRANKFURT: FREEDOM OF THE WILL AND THE CONCEPT OF A PERSON; 45. Richard Taylor: Fate; VI. ETHICS; VI.A. ARE THERE ANY MORAL ABSOLUTES OR IS MORALITY COMPLETELY RELATIVE?; 46. Ruth Benedict: Morality Is Relative; 47. James Rachels: Morality Is Not Relative; VI.B. ETHICS AND EGOISM: WHY SHOULD WE BE MORAL?; 48. Plato: Why Should I Be Moral?: Gyges' Ring and Socrates' Dilemma; 49. Ayn Rand: In Defense of Ethical Egoism; 50. Louis P. Pojman: A Critique of Ethical Egoism; VI.C. WHICH IS THE CORRECT ETHICAL THEORY?; 51. Aristotle: The Ethics of Virtue; 52. Immanuel Kant: The Moral Law; 53. John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism; 54. Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist Ethics; VII. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY; WHY SHOULD I OBEY THE GOVERNMENT? WHAT IS THE JUSTIFICATION OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY?; 55. Robert Paul Wolff: In Defense of Anarchism; 56. Thomas Hobbes: The Absolutist Answer; 57. John Locke: The Democratic Answer; 58. John Stuart Mill: A Classical Liberal Answer; 59. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Answer; 60. JOHN RAWLS: THE CONTEMPORARY LIBERAL ANSWER; VIII. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?; 61. Epicurus: Moderate Hedonism; 62. Epictetus: Stoicism: Enchiridion; 63. Albert Camus: Life is Absurd; 64. Lois Hope Walker: Religion Gives Meaning to Life; 65. Thomas Nagel: The Absurd; 66. Bertrand Russell: Reflections on Suffering; IX. PHILOSOPHY IN ACTION; IX.A. IS ABORTION MORALLY PERMISSIBLE?; 67. John T. Noonan, Jr.: Abortion Is Not Morally Permissible; 68. Mary Anne Warren: Abortion Is Morally Permissible; 69. Jane English: The Moderate Position: Beyond the Personhood Argument; IX.B. IS THE DEATH PENALTY MORALLY PERMISSIBLE?; 70. Thurgood Marshall: The Death Penalty Is a Denial of Human Dignity; 71. Burton Leiser: The Death Penalty Is Permissible; 72. Hugo Adam Bedau: No, the Death Penalty Is Not Morally Permissible; IX.C. DO ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS?; 73. Peter Singer: The Case for Animal Liberation; 74. Carl Cohen: The Case Against Animal Rights; IX.D. IS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION MORALLY JUSTIFIED?; 75. Albert Mosley: The Case for Affirmative Action; 76. Louis P. Pojman: The Case Against Affirmative Action; Appendix: How to Read and Write a Philosophy Paper; Glossary


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195189445
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 0195189442
  • Publisher Date: 18 Aug 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English


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