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Table of Contents:
Preface Brooks McDaniel vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction Brooks McDaniel xi A Final Word About Integrity and the Study of Philosophy Brooks McDaniel xxvii Chapter I - The Value of Philosophy 1. Introduction James Pearce 1 2. Examination Day Henry Slesar 7 3. On Face-Work Erving Goffman 11 4. Mapping Experience Ed Cell 23 5. The Process of Inquiry John Dewey 29 6. The Art of Awareness Samuel J. Bois 35 7. The Allegory of the Cave Plato 45 8. The Apology Plato 47 9. The Value of Philosophy Bertrand Russell 63 Chapter II - Truth 1. Introduction James Pearce 67 2. In a Grove Ryunosuke Akutagawa 73 3. Metaphysics, Book IV, Chapters 5 through 7 Aristotle 79 4. Truth and Falsehood Bertrand Russell 85 5. Coherence as the Nature of Truth Brand Blanshard 91 6. Pragmatism's Conception of Truth William James 97 7. The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundation of Semantics Alfred Tarski 107 8. Truth A. C. Ewing 117 Chapter III - Knowledge 1. Introduction James Pearce 125 2. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce 131 3. Theaetetus Plato 137 4. Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes 145 5. Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding David Hume 177 6. The Ethics of Belief William K. Clifford 191 7. The Meaning of Knowledge' Clarence Irving Lewis 205 8. Knowing as Having the Right to be Sure A. J. Ayer 207 9. Epistemic Terms Roderick M. Chisholm 211 10. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Edmund L. Gettier 215 11. Science: Conjectures and Refutations Karl R. Popper 217 Chapter IV - Religion 1. Introduction James Pearce 223 2. A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor 229 3. Whether God Exists? St. Thomas Aquinas 239 4. A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God Samuel Clarke 241 5. Natural Theology William Paley 243 6. The Ontological Argument St. Anselm 247 7. Evil and Omnipotence J. L. Mackey 261 8. Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action Nelson Pike 269 9. Of Miracles David Hume 281 10. The Wager Blaise Pascal 293 11. The Will to Believe William James 297 12. The Future of an Illusion Sigmund Freud 309 Chapter V - Human Nature 1. Introduction James Pearce 315 2. Where Am I? Daniel C. Dennett 321 3. Good Work E. F. Schumacher 331 4. Phaedo Plato 333 5. Of Personal Identity David Hume 359 6. Descartes's Myth Gilbert Ryle 365 7. Human Freedom and the Self Roderick M. Chisholm 373 8. The System of Man's Free Agency Baron d' Holbach 381 9. Fate Richard Taylor 397 10. Computing Machinery and Intelligence A. M. Turing 405 11. The Ontological Problem (The Mind-Body Problem) Paul M. Churchland 415 12. Minds, Brains, and Programs John R. Searle 443 Chapter VI - Morals and Ethics 1. Introduction James Pearce 459 2. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K. LeGuin 467 3. Euthyphro Plato 471 4. Of Faith and Reason, and Their Distinct Provinces John Locke 483 5. Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 489 6. What Utilitarianism Is J. S. Mill 499 7. Passage from Ordinary Rational Knowledge of Morality to Philosophical Immanuel Kant 511 8. An Ethic of Caring Nel Noddings 523 9. Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 539


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  • ISBN-13: 9780757539190
  • Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 075753919X
  • Publisher Date: 27 Nov 2006
  • Binding: Paperback


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