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Philosophy
A Text with Readings
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by Manuel G. Velasquez, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce, Vincent E. Barry, Ambrose Bierce, Manuel Velasquez, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Aldous Huxley, and Manuel Vasquez
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Philosophy: A Text with Readings
2017, Cengage Learning
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Philosophy: A Text with Readings
2014, Wadsworth Cengage Learning
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Philosophy: A Text with Readings
2014, Wadsworth
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Philosophy: A Text with Readings
2011, Wadsworth Cengage Learning
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Philosophy: a text with readings
2005, Thomson/Wadsworth
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Philosophy: A Text with Readings
2005, Thompson Wadsworth
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Philosophy: a text with readings
2002, Wadsworth Thomson Learning
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Philosophy: a text with readings
1999, Wadsworth Pub. Co.
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Philosophy: a text with readings
1994, Wadsworth Pub. Co.
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Philosophy: A Text with Readings
1988, Wadsworth Publishing Company
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Table of Contents
1. The nature of philosophy --
What is philosophy? --
Plato's Myth of the cave --
Plato's Parable and "doing" philosophy --
Assumptions and critical thinking --
The diversity of philosophy --
Reasoning --
The traditional divisions of philosophy --
Epistemology : the study of knowledge --
Avoiding vague and ambiguous claims --
Metaphysics : the study of reality or existence --
Philosophical issues --
Supporting claims with reasons and arguments --
Ethics : the study of values --
Other philosophical inquiries --
A philosopher in action : Socrates --
Euthyphro : do we know what holiness is? --
Evaluating arguments --
The Republic : is justice what benefits the powerful? --
The Apology : Socrates' trial --
Crito : do we have an obligation to obey the law? --
Identifying premises, conclusions, and assumptions --
Breaking the law for the sake of justice --
The value of philosophy --
Achieving freedom --
Building your view of life --
cultivating awareness --
Albert Ellis and rational emotive behavior therapy --
Learning to think critically --
Does philosophy have a male bias? --
The theme of this text --
Reading : "Story of a good Brahman" / Voltaire --
Pre-Socratic Western philosophers --
Eastern philosophers --
2. Human nature --
Why does your view of human nature matter? --
Deductive arguments, validity, and soundness --
The importance of understanding human nature --
Is selflessness real? --
What is human nature? --
The rationalistic version of the traditional Western view of human nature --
Is human nature irrational? --
The Judeo-Christian version of the traditional Western view of human nature --
The Darwinian challenge --
Inference to the best explanation --
The existentialist challenge --
The feminist challenge --
The mind-body problem : how do mind and body relate? --
The dualist view of human nature --
Evaluating an argument's premises --
The materialist view of human nature --
The mind/brain identity theory of human nature --
The behaviorist view of human nature --
The functionalist view of human nature --
Eliminative materialism --
The new dualism --
Is there an enduring self? --
The soul as the enduring self --
Memory ass the source of the enduring self --
The no-self view --
Are we independent and self-sufficient individuals? --
The atomistic self --
The relational self --
Power and Hegel's view --
Culture and self-identity --
Search for thee real self --
Readings : "The end of the party" / Graham Green --
"The self and substance dualism" / Garrett I. DeWeese and J.P. Moreland --
"The mind-body problem" / John R. Searle --
Plato, Aristotle, and Confucius. 3. Reality and being --
What is real? --
The experience machine, or does reality matter? --
Metaphysical questions of reality --
The search for reality --
Reality : material or nonmaterial? --
Materialism : reality as matter --
Objections to materialism --
The neutrino --
Idealism : reality as nonmatter --
Our knowledge of the world --
Conditional and disjunctive arguments --
Objections to idealism --
Reality in pragmatism --
Pragmatism's approach to philosophy --
The pragmatic method --
Objections to pragmatism --
Reality and logical positivism --
Parallel universes --
Categorical syllogism arguments --
Objections to logical positivism --
Antirealism : the heir of pragmatism and idealism --
Proponents of antirealism --
Objections to antirealism --
Encountering being : reality in phenomenology and existentialism --
Phenomenology --
Existentialism --
Objections to phenomenology and existentialism --
Is freedom real? --
Determinism --
Libertarianism --
Does our brain make our decisions before we consciously make them? --
Compatibilism --
Is time real? --
Time and human life --
Augustine : only the present moment is real --
McTaggart : subjective time is not real --
Kant : time is a mental construct --
Bergson : only subjective time is real --
Readings : "A toast to Captain Jerk" / Russell Maloney --
"Being more real" / Robert Nozick --
Hobbes and Berkeley --
4. Philosophy, religion, and God --
The significance of religion --
Defining religion --
Religious belief, religious experience, and theology --
Does God exist? --
The ontological argument --
The cosmological argument --
Religion and science --
The design argument --
Arguments by analogy --
Atheism agnosticism, and the problem of evil --
Atheism --
God's omniscience and free will --
Agnosticism --
Formal and informal fallacies --
Traditional religious belief and experience --
Religious belief --
"The will to believe" --
Personal experience of the divine --
Nontraditional religious experience --
Radical theology --
Feminist theology --
Eastern religious traditions --
Readings : "The Brothers Karamazov" (excerpt) / Fyodor Dostoevsky --
"The inductive argument from evil and the human cognitive condition" / William P. Alston --
Aquinas, Descartes, and Conway. 5. The sources of knowledge --
Why is knowledge a problem? --
Acquiring reliable knowledge : reason and the senses --
The place of memory --
Is reason the source of our knowledge? --
Descartes : doubt and reason --
Innate ideas --
Can the senses account for all our knowledge? --
Locke and empiricism --
Science and the attempt to observe reality --
Berkeley and subjectivism --
Hume and skepticism --
Inductive generalizations --
Kant : does the knowing mind shape the world? --
Hume's challenge --
The basic issue --
Space, time, and mathematics --
Knowledge and Gestalt psychology --
Causality and the unity of the mind --
Romantic philosophers --
Constructivist theories and recovered memories --
Does science give us knowledge? --
Inductive reasoning and simplicity --
Society and truth --
The hypothetical method and falsifiability --
Paradigms and revolutions in science --
Distinguishing science from pseudoscience --
Is the theory of recovered memories science or pseudoscience? --
Readings : "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" / Ambrose Bierce --
"A defense of skepticism" / Peter Ungera --
"How do we know anything?" / Thomas Nagel --
Hume --
6. Truth --
Knowledge, truth, and justification --
Knowledge as justified true belief --
Justification --
What is truth? --
Correspondence theory --
Coherence theory --
Truth and paradox --
Historical facts --
Pragmatic theory --
Does truth matter? --
Reconciling the theories of truth --
Deflating truth --
Does science give us truth? --
The instrumentalist view --
The realist view --
The conceptual relativist view --
Can interpretations be true? --
Symbolic interpretation and intention --
Wittgenstein and the ideal clear language --
Gadamer and prejudice --
Readings : "In a grove" / Ryunosuke Akutagawa --
"After truth : post-modernism and the rhetoric of science" / Hugh Tomlinson --
"Reality and truth" / John Searle. 7. Ethics --
What is ethics? --
Is ethics relative? --
Do consequences make an action right? --
Ethical egoism --
Utilitarianism --
Some implications of utilitarianism --
Do rules define morality? --
Divine command theory --
Embryonic stem cell research --
Implications of divine command ethics --
Kant's categorical imperative --
Buddhist ethics --
Is ethics based on character? --
Aristotle's theory of virtue --
Love and friendship --
Male and female ethics? --
Can ethics resolve moral quandaries? --
Abortion --
Euthanasia --
Moral reasoning --
Readings : "The heavenly Christmas tree" / Fyodor Dostoyevsky --
"Famine, affluence, and morality" / Peter Singer --
Nietzsche --
Wollstonecraft --
8. Social and political philosophy --
What is social and political philosophy? --
What justifies the state? --
Hobbes and the war of all against all --
Locke and natural moral laws --
Rousseau and the general will --
Contemporary social contract : Rawls --
The communitarian critique --
Social contract and women --
What is justice? --
The purpose of business --
Justice as merit --
Justice and equality --
Justice as social utility --
Justice based on need and ability --
Justice based on liberty --
Welfare --
Limits on the state --
Unjust laws and civil disobedience --
Freedom --
Human rights --
War and terrorism --
Society and the bomb --
Readings : "All quiet on the Western Front" (excerpt) / Erich Maria Remarque --
"The ethics of war" / Bertrand Russell --
Marx --
Rawls --
9. Postscript : the meaning of life --
Does life have meaning? --
What does the question mean? --
The theistic response to meaning --
Meaning and human progress --
The nihilist rejection of meaning --
Meaning as a self-chosen commitment. Ch. 3. Reality and being --
Ch. 4. Philosophy, religion, and God --
Ch. 5. The sources of knowledge --
Ch. 6. Truth --
Ch. 7. Ethics --
Ch. 8. Social and political philosophy --
Ch. 9. Postscript: The meaning of life.
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