Fifty Readings in Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Donald C. Abel is Professor of Philosophy at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Gonzaga University, an M.A. in Philosophy from Tulane University, a Ph.L. in Philosophy from St. Michaels Institute, an M.Div. in Theology from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University. He is the author of Freud on Instinct and Morality (1989), Theories of Human Nature: Classical and Contemporary Readings (McGraw-Hill, 1992), Fifty Readings in Philosophy (McGraw Hill, 3d ed., 2008). He is the editor of Discourses (www.primisdiscourses.com), an electronic database of philosophy readings that is part of Primis, McGraw-Hills online resource for creating customized textbooks. Professor Abel has received two awards for excellence in teaching and an award for outstanding scholarship. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Klappentext Fifty Readings in Philosophy is a flexible and affordable collection of classic and contemporary primary sources in philosophy. The readings cover all the main topics of Western philosophy, each one carefully edited to be long enough to present a self-contained argument but not so lengthy that students lose track of the main point. Introductions and explanatory notes make the readings accessible to students. All these features have made this book a proven pedagogical success and a best-selling reader in introductory philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1. What Is Philosophy?*1.Plato Apology (complete) Translated by R. E. Allen2.Bertrand Russell The Value of Philosophy (complete)2. Philosophy of ReligionA. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD3.Anselm Proslogion and Exchange with Gaunilo (selection)Translated by Thomas Williams4. Thomas Aquinas Treatise on God (selection)Translated by William P. Baumgarth and Richard J. Regan5. David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (selection)6.William Paley Natural Theology (selection)7.Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker (selection)B. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL8.Augustine On Free Choice of the Will Translated by Thomas Williams9.J. L. Mackie Evil and Omnipotence (complete)*10. John Hick An Irenaean Theodicy (selection)C. FAITH AND REASON11.Plato Euthyphro (complete) Translated by G. M. A. Grube, revised by John M. Cooper12.Blaise Pascal Pensées (selection)Translated by A. J. Krailsheimer3. Theories of Knowledge+13.Plato Republic (selection) Translated by C. D. C. Reeve14.René Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (selection) Translated by John Cottingham15.John Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (selection)16.David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (selection)17.Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (selection) Translated by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood18.Alison M. Jaggar Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology (selection) 4. Philosophy of MindA. THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM19.René Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (selection) Translated by John Cottingham*20. Peter Carruthers The Case for Physicalism (complete)21.Thomas Nagel What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (complete)B. PERSONAL IDENTITY*22.John Locke Of Identity and Diversity (selection)*23. Marya Schechtman Personal Identity and the Past (selection)*24. James Giles The No-Self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity (selection)25.Daniel C. Dennett The Origins of Selves (complete)5. Free Will and Determinism +26. Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach The System of Human Freedom (selection) Translated by Donald C. Abel27.William James The Dilemma of Determinism (selection)28.W. T. Stace The Problem...

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• Authors: Donald Abel, Donald C. Abel
• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Academic
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2011
• EAN: 9780073535807
• ISBN: 978-0-07-353580-7
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 6 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy