The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy by Andrew Bailey, ISBN-13: 978-1554813827

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The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy by Andrew Bailey, ISBN-13: 978-1554813827

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• Publisher: ‎ Broadview Press (May 21, 2019)
• Language: ‎ English
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1554813824
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1554813827

The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy is a comprehensive anthology that surveys core topics in Western philosophy, including philosophy of religion, theories of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, social-political philosophy, and issues of life, death, and happiness. Unlike other introductory anthologies, the Broadview offers considerable apparatus to assist the student reader in understanding the texts without simply summarizing them. Each selection includes an introduction discussing the context and structure of the primary reading, as well as thorough annotations designed to clarify unfamiliar terms, references, and argument forms. Canonical texts from the history of philosophy are presented alongside contemporary scholarship; women authors are included throughout.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

How to Use This Book

Introduction

What Is Philosophy?

A Brief Introduction to Arguments

Introductory Tips on Reading and Writing Philosophy

PART I: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

Does God Exist?

St. Anselm of Canterbury

Proslogion, Preface and Chapters 2–5; Pro Insipiente (“On Behalf

of the Fool”) by Gaunilo of Marmoutiers; Anselm’s Reply to

Gaunilo

St. Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologiae, Part I, Question 2: Does God Exist?

David Hume

from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

William Paley

from Natural Theology

Gottfried Leibniz

Theodicy: Abridgment of the Argument Reduced to Syllogistic Form

J.L. Mackie

“Evil and Omnipotence”

Marilyn McCord Adams

Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God

Blaise Pascal

“The Wager,” from Pensées

William K. Clifford

“The Ethics of Belief”

William James

“The Will to Believe”

PART II: THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

Epistemology

Plato

“The Allegory of the Cave”

René Descartes

Meditations on First Philosophy

John Locke

from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Immanuel Kant

from Critique of Pure Reason, Introduction

G.E. Moore

“Proof of an External World”

Edmund L. Gettier

“Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”

Lorraine Code

“Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant?”

Jennifer Saul

“Scepticism and Implicit Bias”

Lee Hester and Jim Cheney

“Truth and Native American Epistemology”

Philosophy of Science

David Hume

from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Carl Hempel

“Scientific Inquiry: Invention and Test”

Karl Popper

“Science: Conjectures and Refutations”

Thomas Kuhn

“Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice”

Helen Longino

“Can There Be a Feminist Science?”

PART III: METAPHYSICS

Philosophy of Mind

Gilbert Ryle

from The Concept of Mind (“Descartes’s Myth”)

Ned Block

from “Troubles with Functionalism”

Thomas Nagel

“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

Frank Jackson

from “Epiphenomenal Qualia” and “What Mary Didn’t Know”

David Chalmers

“The Puzzle of Conscious Experience”

Amy Kind

“How to Believe in Qualia”

Free Will

Paul Rée

from The Illusion of Free Will, Chapters 1 and 2

Ishtiyaque Haji

from Incompatibilism’s Allure

A.J. Ayer

“Freedom and Necessity”

Harry G. Frankfurt

“Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility”

P.F. Strawson

“Freedom and Resentment”

Susan Wolf

“Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility”

Personal Identity

John Locke

from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Bernard Williams

“The Self and the Future”

Daniel C. Dennett

“Where Am I?”

Derek Parfit

“Personal Identity”

Marya Schechtman

“Experience, Agency, and Personal Identity”

PART IV: ETHICS

Ethical Theory

Plato

from Republic and Euthyphro

Aristotle

from Nicomachean Ethics

Immanuel Kant

from Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals

John Stuart Mill

from Utilitarianism

Friedrich Nietzsche

from Beyond Good and Evil, Sections 259–261

Virginia Held

“Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory”

Judith Jarvis Thomson

“The Trolley Problem”

Ethical Issues

Abortion

Don Marquis

“Why Abortion Is Immoral”

Judith Jarvis Thomson

“A Defense of Abortion”

Immigration

Christopher Heath Wellman

“Immigration and Freedom of Association”

José Jorge Mendoza

“The Ethics of Immigration Enforcement”

Terrorism

Virginia Held

“Terrorism and War”

Claudia Card

“Recognizing Terrorism”

Non-Human Animals

Peter Singer

“Equality for Animals?”

Mary Midgley

“Is a Dolphin a Person?”

PART V: SOCIAL-POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Justice

Aristotle

from Nicomachean Ethics, Book V, Sections 1–5

Thomas Hobbes

from Leviathan, Parts I—II

John Stuart Mill

from On Liberty

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

from The Communist Manifesto

John Rawls

from Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

Robert Nozick

from Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Susan Moller Okin

“Justice and Gender”

Equality and Fairness

Mary Wollstonecraft

from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Simone de Beauvoir

from The Second Sex, Introduction

Talia Mae Bettcher

“Trans Women and the Meaning of ‘Woman’”

Iris Marion Young

“Five Faces of Oppression”

Kwame Anthony Appiah

“How to Decide If Races Exist”

Ta-Nehisi Coates

from Between the World and Me

PART VI: LIFE, DEATH, AND HAPPINESS

What Is the Meaning of Life?

Epictetus

from Enchiridion

A.J. Ayer

“The Claims of Philosophy”

Jean-Paul Sartre

from Existentialism Is a Humanism

Albert Camus

from The Myth of Sisyphus

Thomas Nagel

“The Absurd”

Kathy Behrendt

“Reasons to Live versus Reasons Not to Die”

Permissions Acknowledgments

Andrew Bailey is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Arts at the University of Guelph.

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