Title: Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings
Abstract: 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: Pensees 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. Rene 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, Physics 3.2. David Hume: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 3.3. Albert Michotte: The Perception of Causality 3.4. David Lewis: Causation 3.5. Laura Scultz, 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. Rene 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. Rene 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 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 and Jennifer Cole Wright: 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 Metaethics 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 for the Metaphysics of Morals 9.3. John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism 9.4. John Doris: Persons, Situations, and Virtue Ethics 9.5. Joshua Greene: The Secret Joke of Kant's Soul CHAPTER 10: PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD 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
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-08-07
Language: en
Type: book
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