Philosophical Horizons Introductory Readings

by Cahn, Steven M.; Eckert, Maureen

• ISBN13: 9781111186531
• ISBN10: 1111186537
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Explore the central issues of philosophy through an engaging combination of classic and contemporary sources. With over seventy non-technical readings, the editors of PHILOSOPHICAL HORIZONS have put together the easiest to follow and yet most informative philosophy selections ever. Unlike any other introductory anthology, you can read fully annotated masterpieces from the history of philosophy in their entirety, including Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, the Encheiridion of Epictetus, Descartes's Meditations, Berkeley's Treatise, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Kant's Groundwork, Mill's Utilitarianism, James's The Will to Believe, and Sartre's The Humanism of Existentialism. These are juxtaposed with related work from contemporary philosophers so that you can experience how the issues raised in these classic works of philosophy are debated in contemporary times.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

What is Philosophy?

The Elements of Argument

Philosophy Of Religion

Euthyphro (complete)

The Ontological Argument

The Five Ways

The Teleological Argument

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (complete)

A Defense of Atheism

Why God Allows Evil

The Moriarty Hypothesis

The Wager

The Ethics of Belief

The Will To Believe

Theology and Falsification

The Hiddenness of God

Metaphysics

Being vs. Becoming

The Divided Line and the Myth of the Cave

Substance, Cause, and Change

Universals

Of Identity and Diversity

Of Identity and Mr. Locke

Of Personal Identity

The Self as a Narrative Center of Gravity

Freedom and Necessity

Freedom and Determinism

Compulsion

Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility

Counterfactual Intervention and Agents' Capacities

Epistemology

Rene Descartes

Meditations On First Philosophy (complete)

Descartes' Evil Genius

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge (complete)

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (complete)

Critique of Pure Reason

The Argument from Illusion

The Argument from Illusion: A Critique

Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

Tracking the Truth

Philosophy Of Mind

Descartes' Myth

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Eliminative Materialism

Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program?

Could a Machine Think?

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Assymetries and Mind-Body Perplexities

Rethinking the Mind-Body Problem

Ethics

The Nature of Ethical Disagreement

A Proof of the Objectivity of Morals

Egoism and Moral Skepticism

Happiness and Immorality

Nicomachean Ethics

The Pleasant Life

Encheiridion (complete)

Groundwork Of The Metaphysics Of Morals (complete)

Utilitarianism (complete)

A Critique of Utilitarianism

Beyond Good and Evil

The Humanism Of Existentialism (complete)

The Ethics of Care

Moral Luck

Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Active and Passive Euthanasia

A Defense of Abortion

Political Philosophy

Apology (complete)

Crito (complete)

Leviathan

Second Treatise of Government

The Federalist, #10

Estranged Labor

On Liberty

The Solitude of Self

A Theory of Justice

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Letter from a Birmingham City Jail

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