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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Questions That Matter: An Invitation to Philosophy
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This accessible text-reader includes extensive student pedagogy--running summaries, high-interest boxes, biographies, epigrams, a philosophical dictionary, and a timeline/map. The new edition offers a new chapter on virtue ethics, new cases and questions from environmental and biomedical ethics, a new chapter on communitarian and feminist critiques of contemporary liberalism, and more! About the AuthorEd L. Miller holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Southern California and a Doctorate of Theology from the University of Basel, Switzerland. He has taught for the last thirty years at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition to being a member of the philosophy faculty, he also teaches for the Religious Studies Department and is Director of the Theology Forum. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Christian Philosophers, and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.JON JENSEN received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he was a student of Professor Miller. While his philosophical interests vary widely, his research and publications focus on environmental philosophy. Jensen has taught at the University of Colorado, Green Mountain College, and now at Luther College, his alma mater. In addition to teaching philosophy, he is an active member of Luthers Environmental Studies program and enjoys canoeing, bicycling, backpacking, and gardening. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION - THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY The Word ItselfA Rational, Critical EnterpriseA Working DefinitionOf Beards and BreadProfessor Millers Four PrinciplesReadings from: Plato, ApologyMoore, Principia EthicaHusserl, IdeasJaggar, "How Can Philosophy Be Feminist?" The Three Laws of ThoughtDeductive ReasoningInformal FallaciesReading from: Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles3. The First Metaphysicians Three Pre-Socratic TraditionsChapter 3 in ReviewAristotle, MetaphysicsGuthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy4. The Idea of Form The Two Worlds: Appearance and RealityDegrees of Reality and KnowledgeAristotles Criticism of PlatoAfter Plato and AristotleReadings from:Aristotle, Metaphysics, Poetics5. Mind and Matter “What Can I Know for Certain?”The Deduction of GodSome ObjectionsMind: A Set of Dispositions or FunctionsReadings from:Searle, Minds, Brains and ScienceChurchland, Matter and Consciousness What is Idealism?Berkeleys View: Esse est percipiHylas and PhilonousSome ObjectionsReadings from:7. MaterialismMan a MachineAre the Mind and Body Identical?Are All Things Dertermined?Readings from:Hobbes, LeviathanLa Mettrie, Man a MachineTaylor, MetaphysicsDanto, Connections to the WorldPART 2: THE QUESTION OF KNOWLEDGE Varieties of SkepticismIs Absolute Skepticism a Coherent Position?Chapter 8 in ReviewDiogenes Laertius (on Pyrrho), Lives of Eminent PhilosophersRichard Roty, Philosophy and the Mirror of NaturePlantinga, "The Twin Pillars of Christian Scholarship" Two Main Theories about the Basis of KnowledgeThe Rationalism of PlatoA Contemporary Version: ChomskyReadings from:Descartes, Discourse on Method, Rules for the Direction of the Mind10. The Way of ExperienceClassical Empiricism: Aristotle and St. ThomasRadical Empiricism: HumeReadings from: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa TheologiaHume, A Treatsie of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanging Kant and HumeIs There Synthetic A Priori Knowledge?Chapter 11 in ReviewKant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Critique of Pure Reason 12. God and the World The Cosmological ArgumentThe Problem of CausalityReadings from:Jastrow, God and the AstronomersBlack Elk SpeaksKant, Critique of Pure Reason The Ontological ArgumentThe Moral ArgumentChapter 13 in ReviewSt. Anselm, ProslogiumKant, Critique of Pure ReasonKant, Critique of Practical ReasonRashdall, The Theory of Good and Evil14. Religious ExperienceThe Mystical AscentThe Way of ZenChapter 14 in ReviewWeil, Waiting for GodHuxley, The Doors of PerceptionSt. Teresa of Avila, The Way of PerfectionLao Tzu, Tao Te ChingBroad, Religion, Philosophy, and Psychical ResearchFreud, The Future of an Illusion What Is the Problem?Evil as a Privation of GoodnessEvil as TherapyChapter 15in ReviewMill, Three Essays on ReligionSt. Augustine, The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love, On Free Choice of the WillMackie, "Evil and Omnipotence"Hick, Evil and the God of LovePART 4: THE QUESTION OF MORALITY The Challenge of ExistentialismThe Challenge of Psychological EgoismChapter 16 in ReviewSartre, “Existentialism”Marcel, The Philosophy of ExistentialismHume, An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingStace, Religion and the Modern MindSkinner, Beyond Freedom and DignityRand, The Virtue of SelfishnessThe Question of ConsequencesEgoistic HedonismThe Problem of EgoismReadings from:Horace, EpistlesLucien, Sale of the Philosophers18. UtilitarianismBenthams Version: Quantity over QualitySome ObjectionsBentham, The Rationale of Reward, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation |
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