Contributor
Feinberg, Joel, 1926-2004.
Edition Statement:2d ed.
Imprint:Encino, Calif. : Dickenson Pub. Co., [1971]
Description544 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:PART 1. REASON AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF: Introduction -- THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF GOD: The ontological argument from Proslogium / Saint Anselm -- "Uses of the ontological argument" / Paul Henle -- The five ways from Summa Theologica / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- On St. Thomas's proofs from Aquinas / F. C. Copleston -- Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, II-XI / David Hume -- Symposium on theology and falsification / Antony Flew, R. M. Hare, Basil Mitchell -- RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND MYSTICISM: Mysticism from The Varieties of Religious Experience / William James -- Critique of mysticism from Religion and Science / Bertrand Russell -- Analysis of "the oceanic feeling" from Civilization and Its Discontents / Sigmund Freud -- "Do drugs have religious import?" / Huston Smith -- REASON AND FAITH: The wager from Pensées / Blaise Pascal -- from "The Will to Believe" / William James -- PART 2. HUMAN KNOWLEDGE: ITS GROUNDS AND LIMITS: Introduction -- CLASSICAL RATIONALISM AND EMPIRICISM: Meditations on First Philosophy (complete) / René Descartes -- from Three Dialogues between Hylus and Philonous / George Berkeley -- An Inquiry concerning Human Understanding, IV-VII / David Hume -- Grounds for the belief in other minds from An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy / Joh Stuart Mill -- "Of the existence of a material world" from Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense / Thomas Reid -- THE A PRIORI: "The a priori" from Language, Truth, and Logic / A. J. Ayer -- from " The 'a priori'" and the empirical" in The Fundamental Questions of Philosophy / A. C. Ewing -- PRAGMATISM: "How to make our ideas clear" / Charles S. Peirce -- "What pragmatism means" / William James -- from "James's theory of meaning" / Paul Henle -- "Pictorial meaning and picture thinking" / Virgil C. Aldrich -- PART 3. MIND AND ITS PLACE IN NATURE: Introduction -- THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM: Objections to Descartes' sixth meditation / Pierre Gassendi -- Reply to Gassendi / René Descartes -- from "The traditional problem of body and mind" in The Mind and Its Place in Nature / C. D. Broad -- "Sensations and brain processes" / J. J. C. Smart -- SURVIVAL OF DEATH: from "Is life after death possible?" / C. J. Ducasse -- "What kind of next world?" / H. H. Price -- "Can a man witness his own funeral?" / Antony Flew -- The idea of personal identity from An Essay concerning Human Understanding / John Locke -- MINDS AND MACHINES: "The complete robot" / Michael Scriven -- "The feelings of robots" / Paul Ziff -- "Can there be artificial minds?" / L. Jonathan Cohen -- "Robots, consciousness, and programmed behaviour" / Keith Gunderson -- PART 4. DETERMINISM, FREEDOM, AND RESPONSIBILITY: Introduction -- LAW AND EXPLANATION: "What is explanation?" / John Hospers -- "Determinism and indeterminism in modern science" / Wesley C. Salmon -- DETERMINISM, FREEDOM, AND LIBERTARIANISM: "Responsibility and avoidability" / Roderick M. Chisholm -- "Liberty and necessity" from An Inquiry concerning Human Understanding, VIII / David Hume -- "Freedom and necessity" / A. J. Ayer -- "Free will and psychanalysis" / John Hospers -- "Human freedom and the self" / Roderick M. Chisholm -- DELIBERATION, PREDICTION, AND FOREKNOWLEDGE: "Can the will be caused?" / Carl Ginet -- "Actions, predictions, and books of life" / Alvin I. Goldman -- PART 5. RESPONSIBILITY, BLAME, AND PUNISHMENT: Introduction -- RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHARACTER: Conditions of responsibility for action from The Nicomachean Ethics / Aristotle -- from Erewhon / Samuel Butler -- RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHARACTER: The right of punishing from The Philosophy of Law / Immanuel Kant -- Prison life in Siberia from The House of the Dead / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- from "Hegel's theory of punishment" / J. Ellis McTaggart -- from "The criminal law" in The Common Law / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- "Punishment" / J. D. Mabbott -- "Mr. abbott on punishment" / M. R. Glover -- Punishment from "Two concepts of rules," part I / John Rawls -- THEORIES OF BLAME: "Ethical judgments and avoiability" / Charles L. Stevenson -- "Professor Stevenson, Voltaire, and the case of Admiral Byng" / David Braybrooke -- "Determinism and moral perspectives" / Elizabeth L. Beardsley -- PART 6. SELF-LOVE AND THE CLAIMS OF MORALITY: Introduction -- WHY BE MORAL? The immoralists' challenge from The Republic / Plato -- Ancient views on the relation between duty and self-interest from History of European Morals, Vol. I / W. E. H. Lecky -- from Duty and Interest / H. A. Prichard -- PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM: The psychological egoists from History of European Morals, Vol. I / W. E. H. Lecky -- "Psychological egoism" / Joel Feinberg -- "An empirical basis for psychological egoism" / Michael A. Slote -- ETHICAL EGOISM AND ALTRUISM: The principle of utility and its sanctions from An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, I-IV / Jeremy Bentham -- "Saints and heroes" / J. O. Urmson -- "Ultimate principles and ethical egoism" / Brian Medlin -- from "Morality, self, and others" / W. D. Falk.
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