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Explore the central issues of philosophy through more than 70 non-technical reading. PHILOSOPHICAL HORIZONS: INTRODUCTORY READINGS has put together the easiest to follow and yet most informative philosophy selections ever. Whether it's the ancient philosophical masters or more recent thinkers, it's all here and clearly presented.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction: The Elements of Argument. Part I: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. Plato: Euthyphro (complete). Anselm: The Ontological Argument. Aquinas: The Five Ways. Richard Taylor: The Cosmological Argument. William Paley: The Teleological Argument. David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (selection). Ernest Nagel: A Defense of Atheism. Richard Swinburne: Why God Allows Evil. Steven M. Cahn: The Moriarty Hypothesis. Blaise Pascal: The Wager. W. K. Clifford: The Ethics of Belief. William James: The Will to Believe. Antony Flew, R. M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell: Theology and Falsification. Robert McKim: The Hiddenness of God. Part II: METAPHYSICS. Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Zeno: Being vs. Becoming. Gilbert Ryle: Achilles and the Tortoise. Plato: The Divided Line and the Myth of the Cave. Aristotle: Substance, Cause and Change. A. D. Woozley: Universals. John Locke: Of Identity and Diversity. David Hume: Of Personal Identity. Thomas Reid: Of Identity and Mr. Locke. Daniel Dennett: The Self as a Narrative Center of Gravity. Clarence Darrow: Compulsion. A. J. Ayer: Freedom and Necessity. Richard Taylor: Freedom and Determinism. Harry Frankfurt: Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility. Part III: EPISTEMOLOGY. Rene Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (complete). O. K. Bouwsma: Descartes' Evil Genuis. John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (selection). George Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (selection). David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (selection). P. F. Strawson: The Justification of Induction. Nelson Goodman: The New Riddle of Induction. Edmund Gettier: Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Keota Fields: A Reply to Gettier. Susan Haack: Critical Common-Sensim. Part IV: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND. Gilbert Ryle: Descartes' Myth. J.J.C. Smart: Sensations and Brain Processes. Alan Turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Paul Churchland: Eliminative Materialism. John Searle: Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program? Paul Churchland and Patricia Churchland: Could a Machine Think? Thomas Nagel: What is it Like to be a Bat? Keith Gunderson: Asymmetries and Mind/Body Perplexities. Barbara Montero: The Body Problem. Part V: ETHICS. Charles L. Stevenson: The Nature of Ethical Disagreement. Renford Bambrough: A Proof of the Objectivity of Morals. James Rachels: Egoism and Moral Scepticism. Steven M. Cahn and Jeffrie G. Murphy: Happiness and Immorality. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (selection). Epicurus: The Pleasant Life. Marcus Aurelius: The Meditations (selection). Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (selection). Mill: Utilitarianism (selection). Bernard Wiliams: A Critique of Utilitarianism. Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (selection). Thomas Nagel: Moral Luck. Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality. James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia. Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion. Tom Regan: The Case for Animal Rights. Part VI: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. Plato: Apology (complete). Plato: Crito (complete). Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (selection). John Locke: Second Treatise Concerning Government (selection). James Madison: Federalist #10. Karl Marx: Estranged Labor. John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (selection). John Rawls: A Theory of Justice (selection). Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia (selection). Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham City Jail.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780534518813
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Introductory Readings
  • Width: 185 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0534518818
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 658 gr


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