Reason and Responsibility Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy (with InfoTrac)

by Feinberg, Joel; Shafer-Landau, Russ

• ISBN13: 9780534625580
• ISBN10: 0534625584
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-03
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

The Twelfth Edition of this best-selling, topically organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. This new edition features more readings than ever before--79 total--all, where necessary, in the finest translations available. The readings complement each other and naturally build on the topic being covered. Clear, concise introductions to each Part provide just enough guidance to let students learn from experiencing the readings themselves. The text's long-heralded selection of readings covers topics such as reason and religious belief, human knowledge, mind and its place in nature, determinism, free will and responsibility, and morality and its critics in five parts with careful attention to opposing points of view.

Table of Contents

Preface

Reason and religious belief

Introduction

The Existence of God

Anselm of Canterbury: the Ontological Argument: from Proslogium Gaunilo

On Behalf of the Fool

The Ontological Argument

The Five Ways, from Summa The ologica

A Modern Formulation of the Cosmological Argument

The Cosmological Argument

The Argument from Design

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, II-XI

The Problem of Evil

Rebellion: from the Brothers Karamazov

God and the Problem of Evil

Why God Allows Evil, from is there a God? Reason and Faith

The Ethics of Belief

The Will to Believe

Without Evidence or Argument

The Wager

Miracles and Testimony, from Think

Human Knowledge: ITS GROUNDS AND LIMITS

Introduction

Skepticism

A Brain in a Vat

The Modes of Skepticism, from Outlines of Pyhrronism

The Problem of the Criterion

Our Knowledge of the External World

Meditations on First Philosophy

The Causal The ory of Perception, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Of the Principles of Human Knowledge

Of the Existence of a Material World, from Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense

Proof of an External World

The Methods of Science

An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, II, IV-VII

An Encounter with David Hume

Conjectures and Refutations

Believing Where We Cannot Prove, from Abusing Science

Mind and Its Place In Nature

Introduction

The Mind-Body Problem

A Defense of Substance Dualism

The Qualia Problem

The Case for Materialism

The Mind is the Brain, from Introducing Persons

Behaviorism, Materialism, and Functionalism, from Matter and Consciousness

Can Non-Humans Think? Alan Turing

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Minds, Brains, and Programs

Robots and Minds, from Consciousness

Star Witness Personal Identity and the Survival of Death

The Prince and the Cobbler, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Of Identity and of Mr. Locke''s Account of Identity, from Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

The Self, from A Treatise of Human Nature

Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons

Where Am I?, from Brainstorms

A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality

Determinism, Free Will and Responsibility

Introduction

The Case for Determinism and its Incompatibility With Any Important Sense of Free Will

The Illusion of Free Will, from System of Nature

A Defense of Hard Determinism, from How Free are You? Compatibilism

The Case for Determinism and its Compatibility with the Most Important Sense of Free Will

Freedom and Necessity, from Philosophical Essays

The Problem of Free Will, from Religion and the Modern Mind. Libertarianism

The Case for Free Will and its Incompatibility with Determinism

Human Freedom and the Self.

Free Will: Ancient Dispute, New The mes

Freedom and Moral Responsibility

The Preconditions of Virtue, from Nicomachean Ethics

Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility.

Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility

Morality and Its Critics Introduction

Challenges to Morality

Psychological Egoism

Ethical Egoism, from Elements of Moral Philosop

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