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9780023174308

Philosophy and Contemporary Issues

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  • ISBN13:

    9780023174308

  • ISBN10:

    0023174307

  • Edition: 7th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-08-01
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

Timely and very approachable, this book introduces today's readers to philosophy with readings of philosophical significance. It is one of the most successful philosophy books available for the last 20 years. Incorporates 15 new readings by authors such as Kai Nielsen, Jenny Teichman, Jonathan Harrison, and Sextus Empiricus. Features extensively revised Puzzles and Problems sections that offer unusual and provocative views to arouse reader response. Relates traditional philosophical issues to key contemporary problems, and follows the explanation of each issue with related readings and Puzzles and Problems. Challenges conventional thinking and presents opposing viewpoints on topics such as the existence of God and the limitation of immigration. MARKET For anyone interested in learning more about philosophy and applying its principles to everyday life.

Table of Contents

General Introduction
The Apology
Freedom And Determinism
The Delusion of Free Will
Freedom of Choice and Human Responsibility
The Problem of Free Will
Walden Two: Selections
Ignoble Utopias
An Address Delivered to the Prisoners in the Chicago County Jail
The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
God, the Arch-Hypnotist
Fate
God And Religion
Seven Reasons Why a Scientist Believes in God
The Delusion of Design and Purpose
The Evidential Value of Religious Experience
The Basis of the Moral Law
Why I Am Not a Christian
God and the Problem of Evil
The Problem of Evil
The Ethics of Belief
The Will to Believe
My Confession
Cacodaemony: A Puzzle about God
Morality And Society
Ethical Relativism
The Morality Trap
Utilitarianism
The Deep Beauty of the Golden Rule
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
Insiders and Outsiders
An Almost Absolute Value in History
A Defense of Abortion
The Case for Torture
R.S.V.P., A Story
State And Society
The Philosophical Presuppostions of Democracy
Democratic Tyranny
Man's Rights
A Moral Case for Socialism
The State
Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look
Pornography
The Ethics of Addiction: An Argument in Favor of Letting Americans Take Any Drug They Want
Paternalism
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Is It Rational to Be an Informed Voter?
Mind And Body
Materialism
The Mind as Distinct from the Body
Sense Without Matter
The Problem of Other Minds
Brain Transplants and Personal Identity: A Dialogue
Can a Machine Think?
Human Beings and Machines
Considerations Against the Belief in Immortality
Parable of the Chinese Room
Knowledge And Science
Meditations I and II
Empiricism
Skepticism
The Detective as Scientist
The Limits and the Value of Scientific Method
The Nature of Science and of Theories on Origins
Theories, Facts, and Gods: Philosophical Aspects of the Creation Evolution Controversy
Brains in Vats
The Problem of the Criterion
Epilogue
Glossary
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