Preface
About the Editors
INTRODUCTION
What Is Philosophy?
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Simon Blackburn
The Elements of Logic
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Simon Blackburn
1. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Introduction
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Steven M. Cahn
Euthyphro
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Plato
The Ontological Argument
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Saint Anselm
In Behalf of the Fool
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Gaunilo
Critique of the Ontological Argument
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Immanuel Kant
Is Existence a Predicate?
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G. E. Moore
Why the Ontological Argument Fails
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William L. Rowe
Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Cosmological Argument
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Michael Martin
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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David Hume
Why God Allows Evil
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Richard Swinburne
The Moriarty Hypothesis
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Steven M. Cahn
The Will to Believe
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William James
William James and the Will to Believe
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Michael Martin
The Hiddenness of God
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Robert McKim
2. EPISTEMOLOGY
Introduction
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David Sosa
Meditations on First Philosophy
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René Descartes
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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John Locke
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
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George Berkeley
Proof of an External World
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G. E. Moore
On Certainty
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Problem of the Criterion
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Roderick M. Chisholm
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
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Edmund Gettier
Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge
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Alvin I. Goldman
Knowledge and Scepticism
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Robert Nozick
The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence Versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge
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Ernest Sosa
Elusive Knowledge
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David Lewis
Epistemology Naturalized
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W. V. O. Quine
What Is "Naturalized Epistemology"?
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Jaegwon Kim
3. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Introduction
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L. A. Paul
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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David Hume
The Traditional Problem of Induction
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Brian Skyrms
The Inference to the Best Explanation
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Gilbert Harman
The Experimental Method
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Rudolf Carnap
Aspects of Scientific Explanation
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Carl G. Hempel
The Truth Doesn't Explain Much
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Nancy Cartwright
The New Riddle of Induction
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Nelson Goodman
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Thomas S. Kuhn
Realism and the Theory-Dependence of Experimental Design
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Richard N. Boyd
4. METAPHYSICS
Introduction
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Delia Graff
On the Relations of Universals and Particulars
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Bertrand Russell
Properties
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D. M. Armstrong
The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetached Parts
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Peter van Inwagen
Many, but Almost One
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David Lewis
Of Identity and Diversity
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John Locke
Personal Identity and Memory
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Sydney Shoemaker
Personal Identity
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Derek Parfit
Of Motion
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Aristotle
Achilles and the Tortoise
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Max Black
Of the Idea of Necessary Connection
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David Hume
Causation
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David Lewis
The Sea-Battle Tomorrow
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Aristotle
The Problem of Future Contingencies
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Richard Taylor
Freedom and Necessity
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A. J. Ayer
Human Freedom and the Self
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Roderick M. Chisholm
Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility
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Harry G. Frankfurt
The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism
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Peter van Inwagen
5. PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
Introduction
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Jesse J. Prinz
Meditations on First Philosophy
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René Descartes
The Causes of Behavior
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B. F. Skinner
Sensations and Brain Processes
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J. J. C. Smart
The Mind-Body Problem
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Jerry A. Fodor
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
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Alan Turing
Can Computers Think?
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John Searle
The "Causal Power"of Machines
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Zenon Pylyshyn
Functionalism, Qualia, and the Inverted Spectrum
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Terrance Horgan
Epiphenomenal Qualia
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Frank Jackson
Jackson's Knowledge Argument
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Paul M. Churchland
Consciousness Explained
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Daniel C. Dennett
6. PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
Introduction
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Robin Jeshion
On Sense and Meaning
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Gottlob Frege
On Denoting
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Bertrand Russell
Naming and Necessity
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Saul A. Kripke
Thoughts
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Gottlob Frege
The Problem of the Essential Indexical
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John Perry
Performative Utterances
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J. L. Austin
Logic and Conversation
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Paul Grice
7. ETHICS
Introduction
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Stuart Rachels
The Subjectivity of Values
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J. L. Mackie
A Critique of Mackie
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Ronald Dworkin
A Proof of the Objectivity of Morals
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Renford Bambrough
Utilitarianism
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John Stuart Mill
The Experience Machine
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Robert Nozick
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
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Immanuel Kant
A Simplified Account of Kant's Ethics
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Onora O'Neill
The Right and the Good
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W. D. Ross
The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
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James Rachels
Egoism and Moral Scepticism
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James Rachels
Nicomachean Ethics
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Aristotle
After Virtue
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Alasdair MacIntyre
Living Ethically
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Peter Singer
The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
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Jonathan Bennett
Moral Luck
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Thomas Nagel
The Punishment That Leaves Something to Chance
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David Lewis
Rich and Poor
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Peter Singer
Equality, Entitlements, and the Distribution of Income
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John Arthur
Kantian Deliberations on Famine Problems
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Onora O'Neill
Why We Have No Obligations to Animals
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Immanuel Kant
Constraints and Animals
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Robert Nozick
The Moral Argument for Vegetarianism
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James Rachels
Do Animals Have Rights?
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Tibor R. Machan
8. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Introduction
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Cynthia A. Stark
Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes
Second Treatise of Government
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John Locke
A Theory of Justice
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John Rawls
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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Robert Nozick
Illusions About Private Property and Freedom
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G. A. Cohen
The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self
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Michael Sandel
Markets in Women's Sexual Labor
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Debra Satz
9. PHILOSOPHY OF ART
Introduction
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Gabriela Sakamoto
The Role of Theory in Aesthetics
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Morris Weitz
Defining Art
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George Dickie
The End of Art
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Arthur C. Danto
Glaring Omissions in Traditional Theories of Art
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Peg Zeglin Brand
Of the Standard of Taste
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David Hume
Critique of Judgment
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Immanuel Kant
Categories of Art
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Kendall L. Walton
The Very Idea of Art
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Ted Cohen
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