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Readings on Ultimate Questions : An Introduction to Philosophy

by Rauhut, Nils Ch.; Bass, Robert H.

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3rd

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9780205731985

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0205731988

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Pub. Date:

9/22/2009

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Pearson

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Author Biography

Nils Ch. Rauhut studied philosophy and history at the University of Regensburg (Germany). He received an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Washington in Seattle. He taught at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and he is currently teaching at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.

Preface	p. vi
About the Authors	p. viii
Whv Study Philosophy?	p. 1
What Is Enlightenment?	p. 2
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect	p. 8
Letter to Menoeceus	p. 11
Philosophy, a Bus Ride	p. 12
Apology	p. 15
The Value of Philosophy	p. 27
What Do We Know?	p. 31
Meditations 1 and 2	p. 32
A Skeptic's Manifesto	p. 41
The Lure of Radical Skepticism	p. 47
Appearance and Reality	p. 57
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	p. 62
A Priori Justification	p. 70
Do We Have Free Will?	p. 75
Determinism	p. 76
Compatibilism	p. 79
Beyond Compatibilism: A Buddhist Approach to Freedom and Determinism	p. 86
The Consequence Argument	p. 100
Human Freedom and the Self	p. 106
Libertarianism	p. 114
Is There an Enduring Self?	p. 133
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality	p. 135
ôNo-Selföin Buddhism	p. 145
The Judaic-Christian Conception of the Person	p. 152
A Critique of Locke's Theory of Personal Identity	p. 161
Brain Transplants and Personal Identity	p. 165
Where Am I?	p. 172
Feminist Perspectives on the Self	p. 183
What is the Mind?	p. 195
They're Made Out of Meat Terry Bisson	p. 197
An Argument for Dualism from ôAlcibiades Iö	p. 199
A Critique of Dualism	p. 202
A Defense of Dualism	p. 214
Philosophical Behaviorism	p. 219
The Nature of Mind	p. 231
Mad Pain and Martian Pain	p. 241
Arguments Against Materialism	p. 249
Does God Exist?	p. 263
The Evidential Value of Religious Experience	p. 265
The Five Ways	p. 276
The Ontological Argument	p. 278
The Cosmological Argument	p. 284
A Debate on the Cosmological Argument	p. 292
Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference	p. 301
Born-Again Creationism	p. 314
You Bet Your Life: Pascal's Wager Defended	p. 323
The Problem of Evil	p. 336
Why God Allows Evil	p. 341
TheEthics of Belief	p. 351
The Will to Believe	p. 356
Male-Chauvinist Religion	p. 364
what ought we To DO?	p. 377
The Objective Basis of Morality	p. 379
Relativism	p. 383
Must God's Commands Conform to Moral Standards?	p. 385
Reflective Equilibrium	p. 388
The Principle of Utility	p. 396
Push-Pin and Poetry	p. 402
Higher and Lower Pleasures	p. 403
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals	p. 407
Maria von Herbert's Challenge to Kant	p. 416
Nicomachean Ethics	p. 429
Regarding the Last Frontier of Bigotry	p. 442
Do Animals Have Rights?	p. 450
The Case for Gay Marriage	p. 460
The Case against Gay Marriage	p. 465
Credits	p. 469
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