Philosophical Problems: Selected Readings with Free Philosophy PowerWeb

5. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-07-283351-5
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

This topically organized introductory philosophy reader features a chronological organization within the topics and a wide selection of readings. Primarily a selection of Western philosophy, the fifth edition also includes classic Eastern philosophy texts. New co-author James Fieser contributes fresh introductions to this respected anthology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stumpf, Samuel Enoch

Fieser, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* indicates new to this editionPART ONE: THE MEANING OF LIFEPlato (427-347BCE), APOLOGY: "A Life Worth Living"*Chuang-tzu (c. 250 BCE), THE CHUANG-TZU: "Living in Accord with the Tao"Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), MY CONFESSION: "The Inevitability of the Question, 'What is the Aim of Life?'"Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), EXISTENTIALISM AND HUMANISM: "The Human Condition"PART TWO: PHILOSOPHY OF MINDPlato(427-347), PHAEDO: "Do Minds Survive after Death?"*KATHA UPANISHAD (c. 500 BCE): "The Self-God"*QUESTIONS OF KING MILIINDA(c. 100 CE): "The Self in Flux"Lucretius (c. 94-55 BCE), ON THE NATURE OF THINGS: "The Mind as Body"Rene Descartes (1569-1650), MEDITATIONS and THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL: "The Distinction between Mind and Body"*Anne Conway (1631-1678), THE PRINCIPLES OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY: "Blurring the Distinction Between Mind and Body"George Berkeley (1685-1753), THREE DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONOUS: "Consciousness, not Matter, the True Reality"*David Hume (1711-1776), TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE: "The Mind as a Bundle of Perceptions"Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976), THE CONCEPT OF MIND: "Descartes' Myth"John Searle (b. 1932), MINDS, BRAINS, AND SCIENCE: "The Mind-Body Problem"PART THREE: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGIONAnselm (1033-1109), PROSLOGIUM: "The Ontological Argument"Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274), SUMMA THEOLOGICA: "Five Ways of Proving God's Existence"*Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), THOUGHTS: "Waging on Belief in God"*David Hume (1711-1776), AN EQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING: "The Irrationality of Believing in Miricles"*David Hume (1711-1776), DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION: "Against the Design and Cosmological Arguments"*J.L. Mackie (1917-1981), EVIL AND OMNIPOTENCE: "The Logical Problem of Evil"PART FOUR: EPISTEMOLOGYPlato (427-347), THE REPUBLIC: "The Ascent to True Knowledge: The Divided Line and Cave"*Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 CE), OUTLINES OF PYRRHONISM: "The Goals and Methods of Skepticism"Rene Descartes (1569-1650), MEDITATIONS: "Certainty and the Limits of Doubt"John Locke (1632-1704), ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING: "The Origin of All Our Ideas in Experience"*David Hume (1711-1776), ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, Sections 4 and 5: "Empiricism and the Limits of Knowledge"Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON: "How Knowledge is Possible"William James (1842-1910), PRAGMATISM: A NEW NAME FOR SOME OLD WAYS OF THINKING: "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth"Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY: "Appearance and Reality"Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), THE NATURE OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD: "Common Sense Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge"*Richard Rorty (b. 1931), PHILOSOPHY AND THE MIRROR OF NATURE: "Critique of Traditional Epistemology"PART FIVE: FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM*Epictetus (c. 50-c. 120), HANDBOOK: "Resigning Oneself to Fate"*David Hume (1711-1776), ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING: "The Argument for Determinism"*Thomas Reid (1710-1796), ESSAYS ON THE ACTIVE POWERS OF MAN: "The Argument for Free Will from Common Sense Beliefs"William James (1842-1919), THE DILEMMA OF DETERMINISM: "How Can We Explain Judgements of Regret"John Searle (b. 1932), MINDS, BRAINS, AND SCIENCE: "The Freedom of the Will"PART SIX: ETHICS*Mencius (390-305 BCE) and Hsun-tzu (298-238 BCE), THE MENCIUS and THE HSUN-TZU: "Is Human Nature Inherently Good or Evil?"Plato (427-347 BCE), EUTHYPHRO: "Does God Create Morality?"Aristotle (384-322 BCE), NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS: "Morality and Virtue"*Epicurus (341-271 BCE), LETTER TO MENOECEUS: "Pleasure and Life's Aim"Immanual Kant (1724-1804), FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS: "The Categorical Imperative"John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), UTILITARIANISM: "Utilitarianism: Basing Morality on Consequences"Friederich Nietzsche (1844-1900), BEYOND G

Über Autor(innen)

Stumpf, Samuel Enoch
Samuel Enoch Stumpf was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Emeritus Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University prior to his death in 1998, at the age of eighty. He earned a B.S. in Business and Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles, a B.D. in Theology from Andover Newton Theological School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1948 and served as Chair of the Philosophy Department from 1952 to 1967. After a five-year term as President of Cornell College, Professor Stumpf returned to Vanderbilt, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. Professor Stumpf’s publications include Democratic Manifesto (1954), Morality and the Law (1966), and four McGraw-Hill textbooks: Socrates to Sartre: A History of Philosophy (1966; 6th ed., posthumous, 1999); Philosophical Readings: Selected Problems (1971; 4th ed., 1994); Philosophy: History and Problems (1971; 5th ed., 1994); and Elements of Philosophy: An Introduction (1979; 3rd ed., 1993).

Fieser, James
James Fieser is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University’s Department of Philosophy (1983, 1986). He has published articles on the topics of the philosophy of religion, rights theory, environmental ethics, moral skepticism, David Hume, and Thomas Aquinas. He has created several World Wide Web sites in philosophy, including the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.