Philosophy A Text with Readings 13th Edition by Manuel G Velasquez ISBN 1305410475 9781305410473

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ISBN 13: 9781305410473
Author: Manuel G Velasquez

Philosophy A Text with Readings 13th Table of contents:

Chapter 1. The Nature of Philosophy
1.1. What Is Philosophy?

• Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

• Plato’s Allegory and “Doing” Philosophy

• The Diversity of Philosophy
  1.2. The Traditional Divisions of Philosophy

• Epistemology: The Study of Knowledge

• Metaphysics: The Study of Reality or Existence

• Ethics: The Study of Values

• Other Philosophical Inquiries
  1.3. A Philosopher in Action: Socrates

• Euthyphro: Do We Know What Holiness Is?

• The Republic: Is Justice Whatever Benefits the Powerful?

• The Apology: Socrates’ Trial

• Crito: Do We Have an Obligation to Obey the Law?
  1.4. The Value of Philosophy

• Achieving Freedom

• Building Your View of Life

• Cultivating Awareness

• Learning to Think Critically

• The Theme of This Text

• Chapter Summary
  1.5. Reading

• Voltaire. Story of a Good Brahmin
  1.6. Historical Showcase

Chapter 2. Human Nature
2.1. Why Does Your View of Human Nature Matter?

• The Importance of Understanding Human Nature
  2.2. What Is Human Nature?

• The Rationalistic Version of the Traditional Western View of Human Nature

• The Judeo-Christian Version of the Traditional Western View of Human Nature

• The Darwinian Challenge

• The Existentialist Challenge

• The Feminist Challenge
  2.3. The Mind–Body Problem: How Do Your Mind and Your Body Relate?

• The Dualist View of Human Nature: You Are an Immaterial Mind with a Material Body

• The Materialist View of Human Nature: You Are Your Physical Body

• The Mind/Brain Identity Theory of Human Nature: Your Mind Is Your Brain

• The Behaviorist View of Human Nature: Your Mind Is How You Behave

• The Functionalist View of Human Nature: Your Mind Is like a Computer

• Eliminative Materialism: You Have No Mind

• The New Dualism: Your Mind Has Nonphysical Properties
  2.4. Is There an Enduring Self?

• The Soul Is the Enduring Self

• Consciousness as the Source of the Enduring Self

• The No-Self View
  2.5. Are We Independent and Self-Sufficient Individuals?

• The Atomistic Self

• The Relational Self

• Power and Hegel

• Culture and Self-Identity

• Search for the Real Self

• Chapter Summary
  2.6. Readings

• Kate Chopin. The Story of an Hour

• Janice M. Steil. Contemporary Marriage: Still an Unequal Partnership

• Jean Grimshaw. Women’s Identity in Feminist Thinking
  2.7. Historical Showcase

Chapter 3. Reality and Being
3.1. What Is Real?

• Metaphysical Questions of Reality

• The Search for Reality
  3.2. Reality: Material or Nonmaterial?

• Materialism: Reality as Matter

• Objections to Materialism

• Idealism: Reality as Nonmatter

• Objections to Idealism
  3.3. Reality in Pragmatism

• Pragmatism’s Approach to Philosophy

• The Pragmatic Method

• Objections to Pragmatism
  3.4. Reality and Logical Positivism

• Objections to Logical Positivism
  3.5. Antirealism: The Heir of Pragmatism and Idealism

• Proponents of Antirealism

• Objections to Antirealism
  3.6. Is Freedom Real?

• Determinism

• Libertarianism

• Compatibilism
  3.7. Is Time Real?

• Time and Human Life

• Augustine: Only the Present Moment Is Real

• Mctaggart: Subjective Time Is Not Real

• Kant: Time Is a Mental Construct

• Bergson: Only Subjective Time Is Real

• Chapter Summary
  3.8. Readings

• Sophocles. Oedipus the King

• Robert C. Solomon. Fate and Fatalism
  3.9. Historical Showcase

Chapter 4. Philosophy, Religion, and God
4.1. The Significance of Religion

• Defining Religion

• Religious Belief, Religious Experience, and Theology
  4.2. Does God Exist?

• The Ontological Argument

• The Cosmological Argument

• The Design Argument
  4.3. Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Problem of Evil

• Atheism

• Agnosticism
  4.4. Traditional Religious Belief and Experience

• Religious Belief

• “The Will to Believe”

• Personal Experience of the Divine
  4.5. Nontraditional Religious Experience

• Radical Theology

• Feminist Theology

• Eastern Religious Traditions

• Chapter Summary
  4.6. Readings

• Fyodor Dostoevsky. Excerpt from The Brothers Karamazov

• William P. Alston. The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition
  4.7. Historical Showcase

Chapter 5. The Sources of Knowledge
5.1. Why Is Knowledge a Problem?

• Acquiring Reliable Knowledge: Reason and the Senses

• The Place of Memory
  5.2. Is Reason the Source of Our Knowledge?

• Descartes: Doubt and Reason

• Innate Ideas
  5.3. Can the Senses Account for All Our Knowledge?

• Locke and Empiricism

• Berkeley and Subjectivism

• Hume and Skepticism
  5.4. Kant: Does the Knowing Mind Shape the World?

• Hume’s Challenge

• The Basic Issue

• Space, Time, and Mathematics

• Causality and the Unity of the Mind

• Constructivist Theories and Recovered Memories
  5.5. Does Science Give Us Knowledge?

• Inductive Reasoning and Simplicity

• The Hypothetical Method and Falsifiability

• Paradigms and Revolutions in Science

• Is the Theory of Recovered Memories Science or Pseudoscience?

• Chapter Summary
  5.6. Readings

• Ambrose Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

• Peter Unger. A Defense of Skepticism

• Thomas Nagel. How Do We Know Anything?
  5.7. Historical Showcase

Chapter 6. Truth
6.1. Knowledge and Truth

• Knowledge as Justified True Belief
  6.2. What Is Truth?

• Correspondence Theory

• Coherence Theory

• Pragmatic Theory

• Does Truth Matter?

• Reconciling the Theories of Truth
  6.3. Does Science Give Us Truth?

• The Instrumentalist View

• The Realist View of Science

• The Conceptual Relativist View
  6.4. Can Interpretations Be True?

• Symbolic Interpretation and Intention

• Wittgenstein and the Ideal Clear Language

• Gadamer and Prejudice

• Chapter Summary
  6.5. Readings

• Ryunosuke Akutagawa. In a Grove

• Hugh Tomlinson. After Truth: Post-Modernism and the Rhetoric of Science

• John Searle. Reality and Truth
  6.6. Historical Showcase

Chapter 7. Ethics
7.1. What is Ethics?
7.2. Is Ethics Relative?
7.3. Do Consequences Make an Action Right?

• Ethical Egoism

• Utilitarianism

• Some Implications of Utilitarianism
  7.4. Do Rules Define Morality?

• Divine Command Theory

• Implications of Divine Command Ethics

• Kant’s Categorical Imperative

• Buddhist Ethics
  7.5. Is Ethics Based on Character?

• Aristotle’s Theory of Virtue

• Love and Friendship

• Male and Female Ethics?

• Conclusions
  7.6. Can Ethics Resolve Moral Quandaries?

• Abortion

• Euthanasia

• Chapter Summary
  7.7. Readings

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Heavenly Christmas Tree

• Peter Singer. Famine, Affluence, and Morality
  7.8. Historical Showcase

Chapter 8. Social and Political Philosophy
8.1. What Is Social and Political Philosophy?
8.2. What Justifies the State and Its Power?

• Hobbes and the War of All against All

• Locke and Natural Moral Laws

• Contemporary Social Contract: Rawls

• The Communitarian Critique

• Social Contract and Women
  8.3. What Is Justice?

• Justice as Merit

• Justice as Equality

• Justice as Social Utility

• Justice Based on Need and Ability

• Justice Based on Liberty
  8.4. Limits on the State

• Unjust Laws and Civil Disobedience

• Freedom

• Human Rights

• War and Terrorism

• Chapter Summary
  8.5. Reading

• Erich Maria Remarque. From All Quiet on the Western Front

• Bertrand Russell. The Ethics of War
  8.6. Historical Showcase

Chapter 9. Postscript: The Meaning of Life
9.1. Does Life Have Meaning?

• What Does the Question Mean?
  9.2. The Theistic Response to Meaning
  9.3. Meaning and Human Progress
  9.4. The Nihilist Rejection of Meaning
  9.5. Meaning as a Self-Chosen Commitment

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