Reason and Responsibility : Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy, International Edition

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Críticas: Joel Feinberg (1926-2004): In Memoriam. Preface. The Nature and Value of Philosophy. Joel Feinberg: A Logic Lesson. Plato: "Apology." Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy. PART I: REASON AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF. 1. The Existence and Nature of God. Anselm of Canterbury: The Ontological Argument, from Proslogion. Gaunilo of Marmoutiers: On Behalf of the Fool. L. Rowe: The Ontological Argument. Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways, from Summa Theologica. Samuel Clarke: A Modern Formulation of the Cosmological Argument. William L. Rowe: The Cosmological Argument. William Paley: The Argument from Design. David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. 2. The Problem of Evil. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Rebellion. J. L. Mackie: Evil and Omnipotence. Peter van Inwagen: The Argument from Evil. John Hick The Soul-Making Defense. B. C. Johnson: God and the Problem of Evil. 3. Reason and Faith. W. K. Clifford: The Ethics of Belief. William James: The Will to Believe. Kelly James Clark: Without Evidence or Argument. Blaise Pascal: The Wager. Simon Blackburn: Miracles and Testimony. PART II: HUMAN KNOWLEDGE: ITS GROUNDS AND LIMITS. 4. Skepticism. John Pollock: A Brain in a Vat. Michael Huemer: Three Skeptical Arguments. Roderick M. Chisholm: The Problem of the Criterion. 5. The Nature and Value of Knowledge. Plato: Knowledge as Justified True Belief. Edmund Gettier: Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? James Cornman, Keith Lehrer, and George Pappas: An Analysis of Knowledge. Gilbert Ryle: Knowing How and Knowing That. Plato: "Meno". Duncan Pritchard: The Value of Knowledge. 6. Our Knowledge of the External World. Bertrand Russell: Appearance and Reality and the Existence of Matter. Rene Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy. John Locke: The Causal Theory of Perception. George Berkeley: Of the Principles of Human Knowledge. G. E. Moore: Proof of an External World. 7. The Methods of Science. David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Wesley C. Salmon: An Encounter with David Hume. Karl Popper: Science: Conjectures and Refutations. Philip Kitcher: Believing Where We Cannot Prove. PART III: MIND AND ITS PLACE IN NATURE. 8. The Mind-Body Problem. Brie Gertler: In Defense of Mind-Body Dualism. Frank Jackson: The Qualia Problem. Peter Carruthers: The Mind Is the Brain. Paul Churchland: Functionalism and Eliminative Materialism. 9. Can Non-Humans Think? Alan Turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence. John R. Searle: Minds, Brains, and Programs. William G. Lycan: Robots and Minds. 10. Personal Identity and the Survival of Death. Ted Sider: Personal Identity. John Locke: The Prince and the Cobbler. Thomas Reid: Of Mr. Locke's Account of Our Personal Identity. David Hume: The Self. Derek Parfit: Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons. John Perry: A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality. PART IV: DETERMINISM, FREE WILL, AND RESPONSIBILITY. 11. The Mysteries of Free Will. Peter van Inwagen: Freedom of the Will. 12. Libertarianism: The Case for Free Will and Its Incompatibility with Determinism. Roderick M. Chisholm: Human Freedom and the Self. Robert Kane: Free Will: Ancient Dispute, New Themes. 13. Hard Determinism: The Case for Determinism and its Incompatibility with Its Incompatibility with Any Important Sense of Free Will. Paul Holbach: The Illusion of Free Will. Derk Pereboom: Why We Have No Free Will and Can Live Without It. (Modified in this edition) 14. Compatibilism: The Case for Determinism and Its Compatibility with the Most Important Sense of Free Will. David Hume: Of Liberty and Necessity. A. J. Ayer: Freedom and Necessity. 15. Freedom and Moral Responsibility. Galen Strawson: The Maze of Free Will. Harry Frankfurt: Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility. Thomas Nagel: Moral Luck. Susan Wolf: Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility. PART V: MORALITY AND ITS CRITICS. 16. Changes to Morality. Joel Feinberg: Psychological Egoism. Plato: The Immoralist's Challenge. Friedrich Nietzche: Master and Slave Morality. Richard Joyce: The Evolutionary Debunking of Morality. 17. Proposed Standards and Right of Conduct. Russ Shafer-Landau: Ethical Subjectivism. Martha Nussbaum: Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation. Aristotle: Virtue and the Good Life. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan. John Rawls: Justice as Fairness. Plato: Euthyphro. Immanuel Kant: The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative. J.S. Mill: Utilitarianism, Chapters 2 and 4. W. D. Ross: What Makes Right Acts Right? Hilde Lindemann: What Is Feminist Ethics? 18. Ethical Problems. Plato: Crito. Peter Singer: The Singer Solution to World Poverty. John Harris: The Survival Lottery. James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia. Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion. Don Marquis: Why Abortion Is Immoral. 19. The Meaning of Life. Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World. Leo Tolstoy: My Confession. Erik Wielenber: The Meaning of Life without God. Thomas Nagel: The Absurd.