The Canon and Its Critics

by FURMAN

• ISBN13: 9780072832372
• ISBN10: 0072832371
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-22
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Table of Contents

* indicates a new reading for this edition

INTRODUCTION

1. Plato, "The Apology" & "Crito"

2. Bertrand Russell, "Appearance and Reality"

PART ONE: THE SELF

Chapter 1 Am I Free or Determined?

*3. Robert Blatchford, "The Delusion of Free Will"

4. Charles Arthur Cambell, "Free Will"

5. A. J. Ayer, "Freedom and Necessity"

6. Susan Wolf, "Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility"

*7. Jean-Paul Sartre, "No Exit"

*8. Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex

Chapter 2 Is Artificial Intelligence Possible?

9. A. M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

10. William Lycan, "Machine Consciousness"

11. Morton Hunt, "What the Human Mind Can Do That the Computer Can't"

12. John Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs"

Chapter 3 Am I a Mind, a Body, or Both?

13. J. P. Moreland, "Dualism Defended"

14. Gilbert Ryle, "The Dogma of the Ghost in the Machine"

15. B. F. Skinner, "Behaviorism"

*16. J. J. C. Smart, "Sensations and Brain Processes"

Chapter 4 How does Society Shape my Identity?

17. Nancy Chodorow, "The Sexual Sociology of Adult Life"

18. Susan Bordo, "Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture"

19. Franz Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness"

20. Clyde Warrior, "We Are Not Free"

21. Robert Baker, "'Chicks' and 'Pricks': A Plea for 'Persons'"

PART TWO: THE WORLD

Chapter 5 What Is the Nature of the Universe?

22. René Descartes, "Substance"

23. John Locke, "Of our Complex Ideas of Substances"

24. George Berkeley, "Of the Principles of Human Knowledge"

25. David Hume, "Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Human Understanding"

26. A. J. Ayer, "The Elimination of Metaphysics"

Chapter 6 How Can I Have Knowledge?

27. Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave"

28. René Descartes, Meditations On First Philosophy

29. David Hume, "Of the Origin of Ideas"

30. Immanuel Kant, "Introduction," from The Critique of Pure Reason

31. William James, "What Pragmatism Means"

32. Paul Feyerabend, from Against Method

*33. John Greco, "Virtues in Epistemology"

Chapter 7 Is Objectivity Possible or Desirable?

34. Alison Jaggar, "Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology"

35. Lorraine Code, "Taking Subjectivity into Account"

36. Catharine A. MacKinnon, "Consciousness Raising"

37. Richard Rorty, "Solidarity or Objectivity?"

38. Sandra Harding, "'Strong Objectivity': A Response to the New Objectivity Question"

39. bell hooks, "Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness"

*40. Nietzsche, from Beyond Good and Evil

PART THREE: THE SELF IN THE WORLD

Chapter 8 What Am I Obligated to Do?

*41. Yeager Hudson, "The Independence of Ethics form Religion"

42. James Rachels, "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism"

43. John Stuart Mill, "What Utilitarianism Is"

44. Immanuel Kant, "The Categorical Imperative"

45. Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics

Chapter 9 What Does It Mean to Be Moral?

46. Peter Singer, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality"

47. Herbert Fingarette, "A Way Without a Crossroads"

48. Carol Gilligan, "Images of Relationship"

*49. Peter Singer, "Animal Rights"

50. Brian Luke, "Justice, Caring, and Animal Liberation"

Chapter 10 What Gives the State Its Authority?

51. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

52. John Locke, from the Second Treatise of Government

53. John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty

54. John Hospers, "What Libertarianism Is"

55. John Rawls, from A Theory of Justice (New easier reading selection)

Chapter 11 How Else Can I Think About the State?

56. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

57. Jeffrey Reiman, "Who is Winning Losing War against Crime?"

*58. Charles Mills, "The Racial Contract"

59. Carol Pateman, "Women and Consent"

60. Joan C. Tronto, "Care and Political Theory"

Chapter 12 What is the Nature and Status of God's Existence?

61. St. Anselm, "The Ontological Argument"

62. St. Thomas Aquinas, "The Five Ways"

63. Richard Dawkins, "The Blind Watchmaker"

64. Blaise Pascal, "The Wager"

65. William James, "The Will to Believe"

66. James Cone, "God in Black Theology"

67. Sallie McFague, "A New Sensibility"

Chapter 13 Is Evil Compatible with the Existence of God?

*68. Dostoyevsky, "Rebellion"

69. J. L. Mackie, "Evil and Omnipotence"

70. Richard Swinburne, "The Problem of Evil"

71. Emil Fackenheim, from The Jewish Return to History

72. Shawn Copeland, "‘Wading Through Many Sorrows: Toward a Theology of Suffering in a Womanist Perspective"

EPILOGUE

Chapter 14 How Should I Live My Life?

73. Aristotle, "Eudaimonia"

74. Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism"

75. Cornel West, "Nihilism in Black America"

76. Sandra Bartky, "Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation"