Philosophy
Traditional and Experimental Readings
ISBN13: 9780199775255ISBN10: 0199775257
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The first introductory philosophy anthology to integrate recent work in empirical and experimental philosophy with traditional readings
Table of Contents
PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND REALITY
Chapter 1: Belief in God
Kevin Timpe: Introduction
1.1a. Anselm: Proslogion
1.1b. Gaunilo: A Reply on Behalf of the Fool
1.2. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae
1.3. William Paley: Natural Theology
1.4. Blaise Pascal: Pensées
1.5. Peter van Inwagen: The Argument from Evil
1.6. Sigmund Freud: The Future of an Illusion
1.7. Alvin Plantinga: Warranted Christian Belief
1.8. Deborah Kelemen: Are Children "Intuitive Theists"?
1.9. Daniel Dennett: Breaking the Spell
Chapter 2: Skepticism and the Analysis of Knowledge
James Beebe and Anand J. Vaidya: Introduction
2.1. Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism
2.2. René Descartes: Meditation I: Concerning Those Things That Can Be Called into Doubt
2.3. George Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge
2.4. G. E. Moore: Proof of an External World
2.5. Edmund Gettier: Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
2.6. Alvin Goldman: What Is Justified Belief?
2.7. Shaun Nichols, Stephen Stich, and Jonathan Weinberg: Meta-Skepticism: Meditations in Ethno-Epistemology
Chapter 3: Explanation and Causation
Alexandra Bradner: Introduction
3.1. Aristotle: Physics, Posterior Analytics, Parts of Animals
3.2. David Hume: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
3.3. Albert Michotte: The Perception of Causality
3.4. David Lewis: Causation
3.5. Laura Schulz, Tamar Kushnir, and Alison Gopnik: Learning from Doing
PART II: MIND AND SELF
Chapter 4: Mental States
Mark Phelan and Eric Mandelbaum: Introduction
4.1. René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth: How Can Souls Move Bodies?
4.2. Paul Bloom: The Duel between Body and Soul
4.3. Mark Phelan, Eric Mandelbaum, and Shaun Nichols: Brain Damage, Mind Damage, and Dualism
4.4. Paul Churchland: Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes
4.5. Ron Mallon, Edouard Machery, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich: Against Arguments from Reference
4.6. Jerry Fodor: The Persistence of the Attitudes
4.7. Daniel Dennett: Real Patterns
4.8. Alison Gopnik and Henry M. Wellman: Why the Child's Theory of Mind Really Is a Theory
4.9. Joshua Knobe: Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist
Chapter 5: Consciousness
Emily Esch and Joshua Weisberg: Introduction
5.1. René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
5.2. Gottfried Leibniz: The Monadology
5.3. T. H. Huxley: On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata, and Its History
5.4. Frank Jackson: Epiphenomenal Qualia
5.5. David Chalmers: The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
5.6. Patricia Churchland: The Hornswoggle Problem
5.7a. Martha J. Farah: Visual Perception and Visual Awareness after Brain Damage: A Tutorial
5.7b. Michael Tye: Ten Problems of Consciousness
5.8. Justin Sytsma: Folk Psychology and Phenomenal Consciousness
Chapter 6: Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Stephen G. Morris and Chris Weigel: Introduction
6.1. Kai Nielson: The Compatibility of Freedom and Determinism
6.2. Roderick Chisholm: Human Freedom and the Self
6.3. Galen Strawson: The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility
6.4. Harry G. Frankfurt: Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person
6.5. Eddy Nahmias, Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, and Jason Turner: Surveying Freedom: Folk Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility
6.6. Daniel Wegner: The Illusion of Conscious Will
6.7. Alfred R. Mele: Free Will and Luck
Chapter 7: Persons and the Self
Emily Esch: Introduction
7.1. John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
7.2. Thomas Reid: Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
7.3. David Hume: Treatise of Human Nature
7.4. Derek Parfit: Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons
7.5. Paul Bloom: First Person Plural
PART III: VALUE THEORY
Chapter 8: Meta-Ethics
Tamler Sommers: Introduction
8.1. Herodotus: Culture Is King
8.2. Plato: Why Be Moral?
8.3. A. J. Ayer: Emotivism
8.4. J. L. Mackie: Error Theory
8.5. Michael Smith: The Moral Problem
8.6. James Rachels: The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
8.7. John Doris and Stephen Stich: Empirical Approaches to Meta-Ethics
8.8. Jennifer Cole Wright and Hagop Sarkissian: Folk Meta-Ethical Commitments
Chapter 9: Normative Ethics
Kevin Timpe: Introduction
9.1. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
9.2. Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
9.3. John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
9.4. John Doris: Persons, Situations, and Virtue Ethics
9.5. Joshua Greene: From Neural "Is" to Moral "Ought"
Chapter 10: Epilogue: Philosophical Methodology
Anand J. Vaidya and Michael Shaffer: Introduction
10.1. Plato: Meno
10.2. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
10.3. Stephen P. Stich: Plato's Method Meets Cognitive Science
10.4. Ernest Sosa: Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Intuition
Available Resources
Companion Resources
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