Puzzles & Perplexities Collected Essays

by Cahn, Steven M.

• ISBN13: 9780742514225
• ISBN10: 0742514226
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

These essays present a balanced picture of Cahn's wide-ranging work, from free will to affirmative action, from belief in God to the teaching of philosophy.

Author Biography

Steven M. Cahn is professor of philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I. Free Will
Free Will or Determinism?	3	(12)
Random Choices	15	(4)
Does God Know the Future?	19	(6)
Part II. Belief In God
Does God Exist?	25	(8)
Cacodaemony	33	(6)
The Moriarty Hypothesis	39	(4)
Job's Protest	43	(6)
The Noes Have It: Hume's Dialogues	49	(6)
Suppose God Exists	55	(2)
Religion without God	57	(8)
Part III. Morality, Society, and Art
A Supreme Moral Principle?	65	(6)
Two Concepts of Affirmative Action	71	(10)
The Curious Tale of Atlas College	81	(4)
Why Not Tell the Truth?	85	(2)
The Divestiture Puzzle	87	(4)
The Strange Case of John Shmarb	91	(4)
The Wife of Lear	95	(4)
Part IV. Education
John Dewey at Eighty	99	(8)
Are the Humanities Useful?	107	(4)
Should Liberal Education Change?	111	(4)
How to Improve Your Teaching	115	(4)
How to Teach Introductory Philosophy	119	(4)
Searching for Administrators: The Missing Step	123	(4)
Sources	127	(2)
Bibliography of Steven M. Cahn	129	(4)
Index	133	(4)
About the Author	137