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PUBLISHED
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
DESCRIPTION
xii, 433 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0195136195 alk. paper), 0195133528 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
What is philosophy? /
Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley -- Defence of Socrates /
Plato -- Scope of logic /
Wesley C. Salmon -- Improving your thinking /
Stephen F. Barker -- Fixing belief /
Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel -- Testing hypotheses /
Stephen M. Cahn, Patricia Kitcher, and George Sher -- Science and common sense /
Ernest Nagel -- Appearance and reality /
Bertrand Russell -- What can I know? /
D.Z. Phillips -- Problem of induction /
Bertrand Russell -- Will the future be like the past? /
Frederick L. Will -- Free will or determinism? /
Steven M. Cahn -- Free will and determinism /
W.T. Stace -- Mind and body /
Richard Taylor -- Death /
Thomas Nagel -- Meno /
Plato -- Meditations on First Philosophy /
René Descartes -- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding /
David Hume -- Does God exist? /
Ernest Nagel -- Why God allows evil /
Richard Swinburne -- Theology and falsification /
Anthony Flew and Basil Mitchell -- Do miracles occur? /
Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley -- Faith /
Richard Taylor -- Faith and reason /
Michael Scriven -- Euthyphro /
Plato -- Summa Theologiae /
Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Meditations on First Philosophy /
René Descartes -- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding /
David Hume -- Challenge of cultural relativism /
James Rachels -- How not to answer moral questions /
Tom Regan -- Nature of ethical disagreement /
Charles L. Stevenson Supreme moral principle? /
Steven M. Cahn -- Abortion /
Joel Feinberg -- Giving birth /
Virginia Held -- Active and passive euthanasia /
James Rachels -- Active and passive euthanasia : a reply /
Thomas D. Sullivan -- Choosing death /
Sidney Hook -- Nocomachean Ethics /
Aristotle -- Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals /
Immanuel Kant -- Utilitarianism /
John Stuart Mill -- Democracy /
John Dewey -- Political action : the problem of dirty hands /
Michael Walzer -- Privacy /
Charles Fried -- Death penalty /
Burton Leiser -- Capital punishment /
Hugo Adam Bedau -- Two concepts of affirmative action /
Steven M. Cahn -- Are quotas sometimes justified? /
James Rachels -- What is a liberal education? /
Sidney Hook -- Crito /
Plato -- On Liberty /
John Stuart Mill -- Meaning of life /
Richard Taylor -- Value of philosophy /
Bertrand Russell -- Phaedo /
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