Reason and responsibility : readings in some basic problems of philosophy / edited by Joel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau.
Publication details: Australia ; Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2005.Edition: 12th editionDescription: x, 706 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0534625541 (student's ed.)
- 0534625584 (hbk)
- 0534625568 (instructor's ed.)
- 0534625576 (international student ed.)
- 100 22 REA
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Contents
Part I: Reason and Religious Beliefs
The Existence of God
The problem of Evil
Reason and Faith
Part II: Human Knowledge: Its Grounds and Limits
Skepticism
Our Knowledge of External World
The methods of Science
Part III: Mind and its Place in Nature
The Mind-Body problem
Can Non-Human Think?
Personal Identity and the survival of Death
Part IV: Determinism, Free Will, and Responsibility
Hard Determinism: The Case for Determinism and its Incompatibility with any Important sense of Free Will
Compatibilism: The Case for Determinism and its Incompatibility with the most Important sense of Free Will
Libertarianism: The Case for free will and its Incompatibility with Determination
Freedom and Moral Responsibility
Part V: Morality and its Critics
Challenges to Morality
Proposed standards of Right Conduct
Ethical Problems
Includes bibliographical references.
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