Doing philosophy: an introduction through thought experiments
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| adam_text | VI CONTENTS PREFACE III CHAPTER 1 THE PHILOSOPHICAL ENTERPRISE 1 .
OBJECTIVES 3 SEETION 1.1 EXPLAINING THE POSSIBILITY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE:
PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS AND THEORIES 4 PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS 5
METAPHYSICS 5 EPISTEMOLOGY 5 AXIOLOGY 5 LOGIC 6 THE STAKES IN
PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY 7 THE MIND-BODYPROBLEM 7 THE PROBLEM OF FREE WILL
8 THE PROBLEM OF PERSONAL IDENTITY 9 THE PROBLEM OF MORAL RELATIVISM 10
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL 10 THE PROBLEM OF SKEPTICISM 11 BOX: WHAT 15 YOUR
PHILOSOPHY? 12 NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS 12 SOCRATES AND THE
SOCRATIC METHOD 14 BOX: IN THE NEWS: THE GRADE AT OE/PHI 15 BOX:
PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS 18 SCIENCE AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD 21
LOGICAL VERSUS CAUSAL POSSIBILITY 23 BOX: THE LAWS OF THOUGHT 24 THOUGHT
PROBE: POSSIBILITIES 25 SUMMARY 25 STUDY QUESTIONS 25 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 26 SECTION 1.2 EVIDENCE AND INFERENCE: PROVING YOUR POINT 27
DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS 28 SOME VALID ARGUMENT FORMS 29 SOME INVALID
ARGUMENT FORMS 30 INDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS 32 ENUMERATIVE INDUCTION 32
ANALOGICALLNDUCTION 32 HYPOTHETICALLNDUCTION (ABDUCTION, INFERENCE TO
THE BEST EXPLANATION) 33 INFORMAL FALLACIES 36 UNACCEPTABLE PREMISES 36
IRRELEVANT PREMISES 37 INSUFFICIENT PREMISES 39 SUMMARY 39 STUDY
QUESTIONS 40 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 40 SEETION 1.3 THE LABORATORY OF THE
MIND: THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS 42 THOUGHT PROBE: PLATONIE HUMANS 44 CASE
STUDY: EXPLAINING HOW MORAL ABORTIONS ARE POSSIBLE 44 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: WARREN S MORAL SPAEE TRAVELER 44 THOUGHT PROBE: THE TERRI
SEHIAVO CASE 47 HOW ARE THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS POSSIBLE? 48 CRITICIZING
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS 48 CONCEIVABILITY AND POSSIBILITY 49 SCIENTIFIC
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS 51 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: IMPOSSIBILITY OF ARISTOTLE S
THEORY OF MOTION 51 SUMMARY 52 STUDY QUESTIONS 52 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
53 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: TOOLEY S CAT 53 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THOMSON S
DISEASED MUSIEIAN 53 READINGS BERTRAND RUSSELL: THE VALUE OF
PHILOSOPHY 55 BRAND BLANSHARD: THE PHILOSOPHIEENTERPRISE 58 ROBERT
NOZICK: PHILOSOPHYAS AN ART FORM 62 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 63
CONTENTS VII CHAPTER 2 THE MIND~BODY PROBLEM 65 VIII CONTENTS THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: DESEARTES MEEHANIEAL MORON 66 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LEIBNIZ S
MENTAL MI!! 68 BOX: IN THE NEWS: THE APPROACHING SINGULARITY 70 THOUGHT
PROBE: ARTIFIEIALINTELLIGENEE 71 OBJECTIVES 72 SEETION 2.1 THE GHOST IN
THE MACHINE: MIND AS SOUL 73 DESCARTES DOUBT 73 BOX: RENE DESEARTES:
FATHER OFMODEM PHILOSOPHY 75 THOUGHT PROBE: LIVING IN THE MATRIX 76 I
THINK, THEREFORE I AM 76 THE CONCEIVABILITY ARGUMENT 76 BOX: THE
BIBLIEAL CONEEPTION OF THE PERSON 77 BOX: ANIMAL SOUL 79 THOUGHT PROBE:
ANIMAL SOUL 79 THOUGHT PROBE: HEAVEN WITHOUT BODIES 81 THE DIVISIBILITY
ARGUMENT 81 THE PROBLEM OF INTERACTION 82 BOX: PARALLELISM:
OEEASIONALISM AND THE PREESTABLISHEDHARMONY 83 BOX: THE SEAT OF THE SOUL
85 THE CAUSAL CLOSURE OF THE PHYSICAL 85 THE PROBLEM OF OTHER MINDS 86
SUMMARY 87 STUDY QUESTIONS 88 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 88 SEETION 2.2 YOU
ARE WHAT YOU EAT: MIND AS BODY 90 EMPIRICISM 91 BOX: DAVID HUME: THE
MODEL PHILOSOPHER 92 LOGICAL POSITIVISM 93 LOGICAL BEHAVIORISM 94 BOX:
PSYEHOLOGIEALBEHAVIORISM 95 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: RYLE S UNIVERSITY SEEKER
96 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE PERFEET PRETENDER 98 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
PUTNAM S SUPER-SPARTANS 99 BOX: BEHAVIORAL THERAPY 100 THE IDENTITY
THEORY 101 THOUGHT PROBE: MENTAL RELAY STATIONS 103 IDENTITY AND
INDISCERNIBILITY 103 CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE 104 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
NAGEL S BAT 104 BOX: IS YOUR BRAIN REALLY NECESSARY? 105 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: LEWIS S PAINED MARTIAN 106 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: PUTNAM S
CONSCIOUS COMPUTER 106 BOX: IN THE NEWS: CYBORG LIBERATION FRONT 108
THOUGHT PROBE: INTELLIGENT ROBOTS 109 THOUGHT PROBE: SPECIESISM 109
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: SEARLE S BRAIN REPLACEMENT 110 BOX: IN THE NEWS:
NEURAL CHIPS 111 THOUGHT PROBE: NEURAL PROSTHESES 112 SUMMARY 112 STUDY
QUESTIONS 113 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 113 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: YOUR MOTHER,
THE ZOMBIE 114 SEETION 2.3 I, ROBOT: MIND AS SOFTWARE 115
ARTIFICIALLNTELLIGENCE 116 BOX: THE PHYSICS OF IMMORTALITY 117 THOUGHT
PROBE: COMPUTERIZED RESURRECTION 117 FUNCTIONALISM AND FEELING 118
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LEWIS S PAINED MADMAN 118 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
BLOCK S CHINESE NATION 119 BOX: IN THE NEWS: THE WORLD WIDE MIND 120
THOUGHT PROBE: THE INTERNET EVOLUTION 120 THOUGHT PROBE: IS DATA
APERSON? 121 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: PUTNAM S INVERTED SPECTRUM 121 BOX: IN
THE NEWS: THE MAN WHO LIVES IN A RAINBOW 122 THOUGHT PROBE: SYNESTHESIA
122 BOX: ALAN TURING: FATHER OF CODE AND COMPUTERS 124 THE TURING TEST
125 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE IMITATION GAME 125 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
SEARLE S CHINESE ROOM 126 BOX: IN THE NEWS: THE LOEBNER PRIZE 128
THOUGHT PROBE: LOEBNER PRIZE 128 BOX: CONNECTIONISM 130 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: SEARLE S CHINESE GYM 130 THOUGHT PROBE: TOTAL T URING TEST
131 INTENTIONALITY 131 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: BLOCK S CONVERSATIONAL]UKEBOX
132 THOUGHT PROBE: DEVOUT ROBOTS 133 SUMMARY 133 STUDY QUESTIONS 134
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 134 CONTENTS IX SECTION 2.4 THERE AIN T NO SUCH
THINGS AS GHOSTS: MIND AS MYTH 136 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: RORTY S DEMONS
136 FOLK PSYCHOLOGY 138 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: SEARLE S CHEVROLET STATION
WAGON 139 SUBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE 139 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ]ACKSON S
COLOR-CHALLENGED SCIENTIST 140 BOX: IN THE NEWS: SEEING COLOR FOR THE
FIRST TIME 141 THOUGHT PROBE: COLOR 141 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ZOMBIES 142
THOUGHT PROBE: ZOMBIES 144 SUMMARY 144 STUDY QUESTIONS 144 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 145 SECTION 2.5 THE WHOLE LS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS
PARTS: MIND AS QUALITY 146 PRIMITIVE INTENTIONALITY 146 BOX: THE DOUBLE
ASPECT THEORY 147 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ]ACQUETTE S INTENTIONALITY TEST
147 MENTAL DEPENDENCE 148 THE CAUSAL EXCLUSION PROBLEM 149 EMERGENTISM
150 BOX: AN EMERGENT GOD? 155 THOUGHT PROBE: PAN-EN-THEISM 155 BOX: IN
THE NEWS: DOWNWARD CAUSATION ... ON WHEELS? 156 THOUGHT PROBE: MIND
CONTROL 156 SUMMARY 157 STUDY QUESTIONS 157 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 157
READINGS RENE DESCARTES: MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY: MEDITATION
II 159 RICHARD TAYLOR: MATERIALISM VS. DUALISM 164 DAVID CHALMERS:
THE PUZZLE OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE 171 TERRY BISSON: THEY RE MADE
OFMEAT 176 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 177 CHAPTER 3 FREE WILL AND
DETERMINISM 179 X CONTENTS BOX: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT 183 OBJECTIVES
184 SECTION 3.1 THE LUCK OF THE DRAW: FREEDOM AS CHANCE 186 HARD
DETERMINISM 186 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LAPLACE S SUPERBEING 187 THE
CONSEQUENCE ARGUMENT 188 BOX: FREEDOM AND FOREKNOWLEDGE 189 THOUGHT
PROBE: FOREKNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM 189 BOX: FATALISM VERSUS CAUSAL
DETERMINISM 191 BOX: EMERGING DEFENCES TO CRIME 192 THOUGHT PROBE:
LEGITIMATE DEFENSES? 192 THOUGHT PROBE: THE BOOK OF LIFE 193 SCIENCEAND
DETERMINISM 193 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: GARDNER S RANDOM BOMBARDIER 196
COMMON SENSE AND CAUSAL DETERMINISM 196 BOX: IS DETERMINISM
SELF-REFUTING? 197 THOUGHT PROBE: DEFENDING DETERMINISM I 97 THOUGHT
PROBE: GENETIC CLEANSING 198 INDETERMINISM 198 BOX: WILLIAM ]AMES:
PHYSIOLOGIST, PSYCHOLOGIST, PHILOSOPHER 199 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: TAYLOR S
UNPREDICTABLE ARM 200 SUMMARY 200 STUDY QUESTIONS 201 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 201 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: NEWCOMB S PARADOX 201 SECTION 3.2 THE
MOTHER OF INVENTION: FREEDOM AS NECESSITY 203 TRADITIONAL COMPATIBILISM
204 BOX: THOMAS HOBBES: THE GREAT MATERIALIST 205 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
LOCKE S TRAPPED CONVERSATIONALIST 205 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: TAYLOR S
1NGENIOUS PHYSIOLOGIST 206 BOX: BETTER LIVING THROUGH NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
208 THOUGHT PROBE: BRAIN STIMULATION 208 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: TAYLOR S
DRUG ADDICTION 208 THOUGHT PROBE: BRAINWASHING 209 HIERARCHICAL
COMPATIBILISM 209 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: FRANKFURT S DECISION 1NDUCER 209
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: FRANKFURT S UNWILLING AND WANTON ADDICTS 211 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: FRANKFURT S HAPPY ADDICT 212 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: SLOTE S
HYPNOTIZED PATIENT 213 THOUGHT PROBE: THE WILLING BANK TELLER 214
SUMMARY 214 STUDY QUESTIONS 215 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 215 CONTENTS XI
SECTION 3.3 CONTROL YOURSELF: FREEDOM AS SELFDETERMINATION 217 THE CASE
FOR FREEDOM 217 THE ARGUMENT FROM EXPERIENCE 217 THE ARGUMENT FROM
DELIBERATION 219 AGENT CAUSATION 221 BOX: SARTRE AND SMULLYAN ON FREE
WILL 223 THOUGHT PROBE: SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND FREE WILL 223 THOUGHT
PROBE: FREE ANDROIDS 226 SUMMARY 226 STUDY QUESTIONS 227 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 227 READINGS ROBERT BLATCHFORD: THE DELUSION OF FREE WILL
228 W. T. STACE: THE PROBLEM OF FREE WILL 233 CORLISS LAMONT: FREEDOM
OF CHOIEE AND HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY 238 THOMAS D. DAVIS: PLEASE DON T
TELL ME HOW THE STORY ENDS 240 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 245
CHAPTCR4 THE PROBLEM OF PERSONAL IDENTITY 247 XII CONTENTS BOX: IN THE
NEWS: KATHLEEN SOLIAH, A.K.A. SARAFANE OLSON 251 THOUGHT PROBE: A
DIFFERENT PERSON 251 OBJECTIVES 252 SECTION 4.1 WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS
DREAMS ARE MADE ON: SELF AS SUBSTANCE 253 THOUGHT PROBE: HOBBES S SHIP
OF THESEUS 254 PERSONS 255 THOUGHT PROBE: IS RACHAEL APERSON? 255
ANIMALISM 256 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE VEGETABLE CASE 256 BOX: THE
DEFINITION OF DEATH 260 THOUGHT PROBE: PERMANENTLY UNEONSCIOUS 260 BOX:
IN THE NEWS: ETEMAL LIFE THROUGH CLONING 261 THOUGHT PROBE: SAFE CLONING
261 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LOEKE S TALE OF THE PRINEE AND THE COBBLER 261
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE TRANSPLANT CASE 262 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: UNGER S
GREAT PAIN 263 THE SOUL THEORY 265 BOX: ST. AUGUSTINE: SOUL MAN 266
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE KING OF CHINA 267 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: NESTOR
ARUL THERSITES 268 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: KANT S SOUL SWITCH 268 BOX:
TRANSUBSTANTIATION 269 BOX: NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES 270 THOUGHT PROBE:
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES 270 THOUGHT PROBE: SOULS IN HEAVEN 271 SUMMARY
271 STUDY QUESTIONS 272 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 272 SECTION 4.2 GOLDEN
MEMORIES: SELF AS PSYCHE 273 THE MEMORY THEORY 273 BOX: JOHN LOCKE: THE
GREAT EMPIRICIST 274 BOX: IN THE NEWS: MULTIPLE-PERSONALITY DISORDER 275
THOUGHT PROBE: MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES 275 THE LNCONSISTENCYOBJECTION 276
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: REID S TALE OF THE BRAVE OFFICER ARUL SENILE GENERAL
276 THOUGHT PROBE: WERE YOU EVER A FETUS? 277 THE CIRCULARITY OBJECTION
278 BOX: IN THE NEWS: SOUL CATCHER 280 THOUGHT PROBE: SOUL CATCHER 280
THE LNSUFFICIENCYOBJECTION 281 THOUGHT PROBE: IS DARTH VADER ANAKIN
SKYWALKER? 282 THE REDUPLICATION PROBLEM 282 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
WILLIAMS S REINCARNATION OF GUY FAWKES 283 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
WILLIAMS S REDUPLICATION ARGUMENT 283 BOX: PAST-LIFE HYPNOTIC REGRESSION
284 THOUGHT PROBE: PAST-LIFE HYPNOTIC REGRESSION 284 BOX: QUANTUM
TELEPORTATION 286 THOUGHT PROBE: TRANSPORTER TRAVEL 286 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: PARFIT S TRANSPORTER TALE 286 THOUGHT PROBE: CAN YOU GO TO
HEAVEN? 288 SUMMARY 288 STUDY QUESTIONS 289 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 289
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: BODILY TORTURE 290 SECTION 4.3 YOU CAN T STEP INTO
THE SAME RIVER TWICE: SELF AS PROCESS 291 THE BRAIN THEORY 291 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: SHOEMAKER S BRAIN TRANSPLANT 291 BOX: A BRAIN IS A TERRIBLE
THING TO WASTE 293 THOUGHT PROBE: BODY TRANSPLANTS 293 CONTENTS XIII XIV
CONTENTS SPLIT BRAINS 293 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: PARFIT S DIVISION 295
CLOSEST CONTINUER THEORIES 295 BOX: ALIEN HAND SYNDROME 296 THOUGHT
PROBE: WHO IS BEHIND THE HAND? 296 THOUGHT PROBE: BRANCH LINES 297
IDENTITY AND WHAT MATTERS IN SURVIVAL 297 IDENTITY AND WHAT MATTERS IN
RESPONSIBILITY 298 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: PARFIT S REFORMED NOBE/IST 299
EXPLAINING THE SELF 299 BOX: BUDDHISTS ON THE SELF AND NIRVANA 300
THOUGHT PROBE: ROBERT AND FRANK 301 MORAL AGENTS, NARRATIVES, AND
PERSONS 301 THOUGHT PROBE: BEING CLIVE WARING 303 SUMMARY 303 STUDY
QUESTIONS 304 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 304 READINGS ]OHN LOCKE: OF IDENTITY
AND DIVERSITY 305 THOMAS REID: ON MR. LOEKE S AECOUNT OF PERSONAL
IDENTITY 312 DEREK PARFIT: DIVIDED MINDS AND THE NATURE OF PERSONS
315 RAY KURZWEIL: LIVE FOREVER 320 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 323
CHAPTCR 5 THE PROBLEM OF RELATIVISM AND MORALITY 325 OBJECTIVES 328
SEETION 5.1 DON T QUESTION AUTHORITY: MIGHT MAKES RIGHT 329 SUBJECTIVE
ABSOLUTISM 329 SUBJECTIVE RELATIVISM 330 EMOTIVISM 331 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: BLANSHARD S RABBIT 332 CULTURAL RELATIVISM 333 BOX: IN THE
NEWS: UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS 334 THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 335 THE
LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF MORAL JUDGMENTS 336 BOX: MORAL CHILDREN 337 THOUGHT
PROBE: MORAL CHILDREN 337 THOUGHT PROBE: WHEN IN ROME 338 THE DIVINE
COMMAND THEORY 338 BOX: THE FORTUNES OF HELL 342 THOUGHT PROBE:
COMMANDED TO KILL 343 ARE THERE UNIVERSAL MORAL PRINCIPLES? 343 THOUGHT
PROBE: MORAL KNOWLEDGE 344 SUMMARY 344 STUDY QUESTIONS 345 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 346 SEETION 5.2 THE END }USTIFIES THE MEANS: GOOD MAKES RIGHT
347 BOX: IS LIFE INTRINSICALLY VALUABLE? 348 THOUGHT PROBE: MORAL J
USTIFICATION 348 ETHICAL EGOISM 348 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: FEINBERG S
SINGLE-MINDED HEDONIST 350 BOX: AYN RAND ON THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS
352 ACT-UTILITARIANISM 352 BOX: JEREMY BENTHAM: MAKING PHILOSOPHY DA
WORK 354 THOUGHT PROBE: ANIMAL RIGHTS 355 PROBLEMS WITH RIGHTS 356
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: MECLOSKEY S UTILITARIAN INFORMANT 356 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: BRANDT S UTILITARIAN HEIR 356 PROBLEMS WITH DUTIES 357
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ROSS S UNHAPPY PROMISE 357 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
GODWIN S FIRE RESEUE 358 PROBLEMS WITH JUSTICE 358 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
EWING S UTILITARIAN TORTURE 358 BOX: IN THE NEWS: KILLING DISABLED
BABIES 360 THOUGHT PROBE: SINGER S PREFERENCE UTILITARIANISM 360
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: EWING S INNOEENT CRIMINAL 360 THOUGHT PROBE: THE
UTILITY MACHINE 361 RULE-UTILITARIANISM 361 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: NOZIEK S
EXPERIENEE MACHINE 363 THOUGHT PROBE: BENEFIEIAL DRUGS 364 SUMMARY 364
STUDY QUESTIONS 365 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 366 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
WILLIAMS S SOUTH AMERIEAN SHOWDOWN 366 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THOMSON S
TROLLEY PROBLEM 366 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THOMSON S TRANSPLANT PROBLEM 367
CONTENTS XV XVI CONTENTS SEETION 5.3 MUCH OBLIGED: DUTY MAKES RIGHT 368
KANT S CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE 368 THE FIRST FORMULATION 369 BOX:
IMMANUEL KANT: SMALL-TOWN GENIUS 370 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: HARE S NAZI
FANATIC 371 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ROSS S GOOD SAMARITAN 372 THE
SECONDFORMULATION 373 BOX: NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE RIGHTS 375 THOUGHT
PROBE: MEDIEAL TREATMENT 375 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: BROAD S TYPHOID MAN 375
BOX: IN THE NEWS: KANT, MILL, AND THE WAR IN IRAQ 376 THOUGHT PROBE: WAR
376 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: EWING S PRUDENT DIPLOMAT 376 THOUGHT PROBE: EASY
RESCUE 377 ROSS S PRIMA FADE DUTIES 377 THOUGHT PROBE: DESERT ISLAND
BEQUEST 378 RAWLS S CONTRACTARIANISM 379 THOUGHT PROBE: JUST POLICIES
382 NOZICK S LIBERTARIANISM 382 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: NOZICK S BASKETBALL
PLAYER 383 BOX: NO-VICTIM CRIMES 384 THOUGHT PROBE: LEGALIZING NO-VICTIM
CRIMES 384 THOUGHT PROBE: PROPERTY RIGHTS 384 THE SODAL CONTRACT 385
HOBBES 385 LOCKE 386 NOZICK 386 THOUGHT PROBE: PREEMPTIVE INCARCERATION
387 THE ETHICS OF CARE 388 THOUGHT PROBE: LYING WITH CARE 390 MAKING
ETHICAL DECISIONS 390 BOX: IN THE NEWS: JILLIAN S CHOICE 391 THOUGHT
PROBE: JILLIAN S CHOICE 391 THOUGHT PROBE: THE ZYGMANIK BROTHERS 393
SUMMARY 393 STUDY QUESTIONS 394 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 394 SEETION 5.4
CHARACTER IS DESTINY: VIRTUE MAKES RIGHT 396 THE VIRTUOUS UTILITARIAN
396 THE VIRTUOUS KANTIAN 397 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: STOCKER S HOSPITALIZED
PATIENT 397 THE PURPOSE OF MORALITY 398 BOX: CHILDREN WITHOUT A
CONSCIENCE 399 THOUGHT PROBE: EMPATHY AND AGENCY 399 ARISTOTLE ON VIRTUE
400 MACINTYRE ON VIRTUE 402 BOX: ARISTOTLE: PILLAR OF WESTERN THOUGHT
403 BOX: THE BUDDHA ON VIRTUE 404 VIRTUE ETHICS 405 THOUGHT PROBE: THE
RING OF GYGES 406 SUMMARY 406 STUDY QUESTIONS 407 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
407 READINGS W. T. STACE: ARE ETHICAL VALUES RELATIVE? 408 ]EREMY
BENTHAM: OFTHE PRINCIPLE OFUTILITY 414 IMMANUEL KANT: GOOD WILL,
DUTY, AND THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE 417 ]OHN RAWLS: THE ORIGINAL
POSITION ANDLUSTIFICATION 422 ALASDAIR MACINTYRE: THE VIRTUES 425
URSULA K. LEGUIN: THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS 429 SUGGESTIONS
FOR FURTHER READING 432 CHARTER 6 THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND THE EXISTENCE
OF GOD 433 BOX: BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 437 THOUGHT PROBE: BIBLICAL TRUTHS
437 OBJECTIVES 439 SEETION 6.1 THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE: GOD AS CREATOR
440 THE TRADITIONAL COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 440 BOX: THOMAS AQUINAS 442
THE KALAM COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 443 THOUGHT PROBE: WHY A UNIVERSE? 447
THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 447 THE ANALOGICAL DESIGN ARGUMENT 447 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: PALEY S WATCH 448 THE BEST-EXPLANATION DESIGN ARGUMENT 451
BOX: EXTRATERRESTRIAL DESIGN 456 THOUGHT PROBE: INTELLIGENT DESIGN 456
CONTENTS XVII XVIII CONTENTS THOUGHT PROBE: HUMAN DESIGN FLAWS 458 THE
ARGUMENT FROM MIRACLES 459 BOX: PARTING THE RED SEA 460 THOUGHT PROBE:
PARTING THE RED SEA 460 THOUGHT PROBE: THE FIVEFOLD COOL/ENGE 462 BOX:
WAS JESUS A MAGICIAN? 463 THOUGHT PROBE: JESUS S MIRACLES 463 THE
ARGUMENT FROM RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 464 BOX: THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON GOD
465 THOUGHT PROBE: RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 465 THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 467
ANSELM SONTOLOGICALARGUMENT 467 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: GAUNILO S LOST
ISLAND 468 DESCARTES ONTOLOGICALARGUMENT 469 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
EDWARDS S GANGLE 470 THOUGHT PROBE: ONE MORE GOD 471 PASCAL S WAGER 471
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: PASCAL S WAGER 472 BOX: SILVERMAN S WAGER 473
THOUGHT PROBE: THE BEST BET 473 THOUGHT PROBE: ALIEN RELIGION 474
SUMMARY 475 STUDY QUESTIONS 476 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 476 SEETION 6.2
WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE: GOD AS TROUBLEMAKER 478 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: ROWE S FAWN 478 THE ONTOLOGICAL DEFENSE 480 THE KNOWLEDGE
DEFENSE 480 BOX: MARK TWAIN ON ADAM AND EVE 481 THOUGHT PROBE: ADAM AND
EVE 481 THE FREE-WILL DEFENSE 481 BOX: NATURAL EVIL: WRATH OF GOD? 483
THOUGHT PROBE: WRATH OF GOD 483 THOUGHT PROBE: IS THERE FREE WILL IN
HEAVEN? 484 THE IDEAL-HUMANITY DEFENSE 484 THE SOUL-BUILDING DEFENSE 485
BOX: KARMA AND THE PROBLEM OF INEQUALITY 486 THOUGHTPROBE: KARMA 486 THE
FINITE-GOD DEFENSE 487 BOX: IS GOD ALL GOOD? 489 THOUGHT PROBE: GOD S
GOODNESS 489 THOUGHT PROBE: WHAT IF GOD DIED? 490 SUMMARY 490 STUDY
QUESTIONS 491 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 491 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE INVISIBLE
GARDENER 492 SECTION 6.3: FAITH AND MEANING: BELIEVING THE UNBELIEVABLE
493 THE LEAP OF FAITH 493 EVIDENTIALISM 495 THOUGHT PROBE: BLANSHARD S
BELIEFS 499 THE WILL TO BELIEVE 499 THE MEANINGOF LIFE 501 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: GOD S PLAN 501 EXISTENTIALISM 502 RELIGION WITHOUT GOD 504
SUMMARY 505 STUDY QUESTIONS 505 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 506 READINGS ST.
THOMAS AQUINAS: THE FIVE WAYS 507 RICHARD SWINBURNE: NATURAL
THEOLOGY 509 DAVID HUME: DIALOGUES CONCEMING NATURAL RELIGION 513 B.
C. }OHNSON: GOD AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL 518 MICHAEL MARTIN: THE
MIRACLE SLEUTH 522 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 527 CLRAPTER 7 THE
PROBLEM OF SKEPTICISM AND KNOWLEDGE 529 OBJECTIVES 536 SEETION 7.1
THINGS AREN T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM: SKEPTICISM ABOUT SKEPTICISM 537
GREEK RATIONALISM 537 PARMENIDES 538 THOUGHT PROBE: THINKING ABOUT
NOTHING 538 ZENO 539 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ZENO S PARADOX OF BISECTION 539
CONTENTS XIX XX CONTENTS PLATO 540 BOX: SOLVING PARMENIDES AND ZENO S
PARADOXES 541 BOX: IN THE NEWS: ARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?
544 THOUGHT PROBE: BOSTROM S SIMULATION ARGUMENT 545 THOUGHT PROBE:
INNATE KNOWLEDGE 546 CARTESIAN SKEPTICISM 546 CARTESIAN DOUBT 546
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: DESCARTES DREAM ARGUMENT 547 THOUGHT PROBE: DREAMS
AND REALITY 547 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: DESCARTES EVIL GENIUS ARGUMENT 548
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: UNGER S MAD SCIENTIST 548 CARTESIAN CERTAINTY 550
REASONABLEDOUBT 552 THE EMPIRICISTALTERNATIVE 553 THOUGHT PROBE: THE
PROBLEM OI INDUCTION 554 THE KANTIAN SYNTHESIS 555 THOUGHT PROBE:
CONSTRUCTING REALITY 557 SUMMARY 557 STUDY QUESTIONS 558
DISCUSSIONQUESTIONS 559 SEETION 7.2 FACING REALITY: PERCEPTION AND THE
EXTERNAL WORLD 560 DIRECT REALISM 560 REPRESENTATIVEREALISM 562 THOUGHT
PROBE: HYPOTHESIZING THE EXTERNAL WORLD 563 PHENOMENALISM 564 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: THE INCONCEIVABILITY OI THE UNCONCEIVED 565 BOX: GEORGE
BERKELEY: THE ULTIMATE EMPIRICIST 567 SUMMARY 570 STUDY QUESTIONS 571
DISCUSSIONQUESTIONS 571 SEETION 7.3 WHAT DO YOU KNOW? KNOWING WHAT
KNOWLEDGE IS 573 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: GETTIER S JOB SEEKERS 574 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: GETTIER S GUY IN BARCELONA 575 THE DEFEASIBILITYTHEORY 577
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LEHRER AND PAXSON S DEMENTED MRS. GRABIT 577 THE
CAUSAL THEORY 578 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: GOLDMAN S FAKE BAMS 579 THE
RELIABILITYTHEORY 580 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LEHRER S HUMAN THERMOMETER 581
THE EXPLANATIONIST THEORY 582 SUMMARY 584 STUDY QUESTIONS 585 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 586 READINGS RENE DESCARTES: MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY:
MEDITATIONS I AND IV 587 GEORGE BERKELEY: OF THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN
KNOWLEDGE 594 EDMUND L. GETTIER: IS JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEF KNOWLEDGE?
597 THOMAS D. DAVIS: WHY DON T YOUJUST WAKE UP? 599 SUGGESTIONS FOR
FURTHER READING 601 CREDITS C-L INDEX I-I CONTENTS XXI
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VI CONTENTS PREFACE III CHAPTER 1 THE PHILOSOPHICAL ENTERPRISE 1 .
OBJECTIVES 3 SEETION 1.1 EXPLAINING THE POSSIBILITY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE:
PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS AND THEORIES 4 PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS 5
METAPHYSICS 5 EPISTEMOLOGY 5 AXIOLOGY 5 LOGIC 6 THE STAKES IN
PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY 7 THE MIND-BODYPROBLEM 7 THE PROBLEM OF FREE WILL
8 THE PROBLEM OF PERSONAL IDENTITY 9 THE PROBLEM OF MORAL RELATIVISM 10
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL 10 THE PROBLEM OF SKEPTICISM 11 BOX: WHAT 15 YOUR
PHILOSOPHY? 12 NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS 12 SOCRATES AND THE
SOCRATIC METHOD 14 BOX: IN THE NEWS: THE GRADE AT OE/PHI 15 BOX:
PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS 18 SCIENCE AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD 21
LOGICAL VERSUS CAUSAL POSSIBILITY 23 BOX: THE LAWS OF THOUGHT 24 THOUGHT
PROBE: POSSIBILITIES 25 SUMMARY 25 STUDY QUESTIONS 25 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 26 SECTION 1.2 EVIDENCE AND INFERENCE: PROVING YOUR POINT 27
DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS 28 SOME VALID ARGUMENT FORMS 29 SOME INVALID
ARGUMENT FORMS 30 INDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS 32 ENUMERATIVE INDUCTION 32
ANALOGICALLNDUCTION 32 HYPOTHETICALLNDUCTION (ABDUCTION, INFERENCE TO
THE BEST EXPLANATION) 33 INFORMAL FALLACIES 36 UNACCEPTABLE PREMISES 36
IRRELEVANT PREMISES 37 INSUFFICIENT PREMISES 39 SUMMARY 39 STUDY
QUESTIONS 40 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 40 SEETION 1.3 THE LABORATORY OF THE
MIND: THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS 42 THOUGHT PROBE: PLATONIE HUMANS 44 CASE
STUDY: EXPLAINING HOW MORAL ABORTIONS ARE POSSIBLE 44 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: WARREN'S MORAL SPAEE TRAVELER 44 THOUGHT PROBE: THE TERRI
SEHIAVO CASE 47 HOW ARE THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS POSSIBLE? 48 CRITICIZING
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS 48 CONCEIVABILITY AND POSSIBILITY 49 SCIENTIFIC
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS 51 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: IMPOSSIBILITY OF ARISTOTLE'S
THEORY OF MOTION 51 SUMMARY 52 STUDY QUESTIONS 52 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
53 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: TOOLEY'S CAT 53 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THOMSON'S
DISEASED MUSIEIAN 53 READINGS BERTRAND RUSSELL: "THE VALUE OF
PHILOSOPHY" 55 BRAND BLANSHARD: "THE PHILOSOPHIEENTERPRISE" 58 ROBERT
NOZICK: "PHILOSOPHYAS AN ART FORM" 62 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 63
CONTENTS VII CHAPTER 2 THE MIND~BODY PROBLEM 65 VIII CONTENTS THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: DESEARTES' MEEHANIEAL MORON 66 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LEIBNIZ'S
MENTAL MI!! 68 BOX: IN THE NEWS: THE APPROACHING SINGULARITY 70 THOUGHT
PROBE: ARTIFIEIALINTELLIGENEE 71 OBJECTIVES 72 SEETION 2.1 THE GHOST IN
THE MACHINE: MIND AS SOUL 73 DESCARTES' DOUBT 73 BOX: RENE DESEARTES:
FATHER OFMODEM PHILOSOPHY 75 THOUGHT PROBE: LIVING IN THE MATRIX 76 I
THINK, THEREFORE I AM 76 THE CONCEIVABILITY ARGUMENT 76 BOX: THE
BIBLIEAL CONEEPTION OF THE PERSON 77 BOX: ANIMAL SOUL 79 THOUGHT PROBE:
ANIMAL SOUL 79 THOUGHT PROBE: HEAVEN WITHOUT BODIES 81 THE DIVISIBILITY
ARGUMENT 81 THE PROBLEM OF INTERACTION 82 BOX: PARALLELISM:
OEEASIONALISM AND THE PREESTABLISHEDHARMONY 83 BOX: THE SEAT OF THE SOUL
85 THE CAUSAL CLOSURE OF THE PHYSICAL 85 THE PROBLEM OF OTHER MINDS 86
SUMMARY 87 STUDY QUESTIONS 88 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 88 SEETION 2.2 YOU
ARE WHAT YOU EAT: MIND AS BODY 90 EMPIRICISM 91 BOX: DAVID HUME: THE
MODEL PHILOSOPHER 92 LOGICAL POSITIVISM 93 LOGICAL BEHAVIORISM 94 BOX:
PSYEHOLOGIEALBEHAVIORISM 95 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: RYLE'S UNIVERSITY SEEKER
96 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE PERFEET PRETENDER 98 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
PUTNAM'S SUPER-SPARTANS 99 BOX: BEHAVIORAL THERAPY 100 THE IDENTITY
THEORY 101 THOUGHT PROBE: MENTAL RELAY STATIONS 103 IDENTITY AND
INDISCERNIBILITY 103 CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE 104 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
NAGEL'S BAT 104 BOX: IS YOUR BRAIN REALLY NECESSARY? 105 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: LEWIS'S PAINED MARTIAN 106 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: PUTNAM'S
CONSCIOUS COMPUTER 106 BOX: IN THE NEWS: CYBORG LIBERATION FRONT 108
THOUGHT PROBE: INTELLIGENT ROBOTS 109 THOUGHT PROBE: SPECIESISM 109
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: SEARLE'S BRAIN REPLACEMENT 110 BOX: IN THE NEWS:
NEURAL CHIPS 111 THOUGHT PROBE: NEURAL PROSTHESES 112 SUMMARY 112 STUDY
QUESTIONS 113 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 113 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: YOUR MOTHER,
THE ZOMBIE 114 SEETION 2.3 I, ROBOT: MIND AS SOFTWARE 115
ARTIFICIALLNTELLIGENCE 116 BOX: THE PHYSICS OF IMMORTALITY 117 THOUGHT
PROBE: COMPUTERIZED RESURRECTION 117 FUNCTIONALISM AND FEELING 118
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LEWIS'S PAINED MADMAN 118 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
BLOCK'S CHINESE NATION 119 BOX: IN THE NEWS: THE WORLD WIDE MIND 120
THOUGHT PROBE: THE INTERNET EVOLUTION 120 THOUGHT PROBE: IS DATA
APERSON? 121 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: PUTNAM'S INVERTED SPECTRUM 121 BOX: IN
THE NEWS: THE MAN WHO LIVES IN A RAINBOW 122 THOUGHT PROBE: SYNESTHESIA
122 BOX: ALAN TURING: FATHER OF CODE AND COMPUTERS 124 THE TURING TEST
125 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE IMITATION GAME 125 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
SEARLE'S CHINESE ROOM 126 BOX: IN THE NEWS: THE LOEBNER PRIZE 128
THOUGHT PROBE: LOEBNER PRIZE 128 BOX: CONNECTIONISM 130 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: SEARLE'S CHINESE GYM 130 THOUGHT PROBE: TOTAL T URING TEST
131 INTENTIONALITY 131 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: BLOCK'S CONVERSATIONAL]UKEBOX
132 THOUGHT PROBE: DEVOUT ROBOTS 133 SUMMARY 133 STUDY QUESTIONS 134
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 134 CONTENTS IX SECTION 2.4 THERE AIN'T NO SUCH
THINGS AS GHOSTS: MIND AS MYTH 136 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: RORTY'S DEMONS
136 FOLK PSYCHOLOGY 138 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: SEARLE'S CHEVROLET STATION
WAGON 139 SUBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE 139 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ]ACKSON'S
COLOR-CHALLENGED SCIENTIST 140 BOX: IN THE NEWS: SEEING COLOR FOR THE
FIRST TIME 141 THOUGHT PROBE: COLOR 141 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ZOMBIES 142
THOUGHT PROBE: ZOMBIES 144 SUMMARY 144 STUDY QUESTIONS 144 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 145 SECTION 2.5 THE WHOLE LS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS
PARTS: MIND AS QUALITY 146 PRIMITIVE INTENTIONALITY 146 BOX: THE DOUBLE
ASPECT THEORY 147 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ]ACQUETTE'S INTENTIONALITY TEST
147 MENTAL DEPENDENCE 148 THE CAUSAL EXCLUSION PROBLEM 149 EMERGENTISM
150 BOX: AN EMERGENT GOD? 155 THOUGHT PROBE: PAN-EN-THEISM 155 BOX: IN
THE NEWS: DOWNWARD CAUSATION . ON WHEELS? 156 THOUGHT PROBE: MIND
CONTROL 156 SUMMARY 157 STUDY QUESTIONS 157 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 157
READINGS RENE DESCARTES: "MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY: MEDITATION
II" 159 RICHARD TAYLOR: "MATERIALISM VS. DUALISM" 164 DAVID CHALMERS:
"THE PUZZLE OF CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE" 171 TERRY BISSON: "THEY'RE MADE
OFMEAT" 176 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 177 CHAPTER 3 FREE WILL AND
DETERMINISM 179 X CONTENTS BOX: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT 183 OBJECTIVES
184 SECTION 3.1 THE LUCK OF THE DRAW: FREEDOM AS CHANCE 186 HARD
DETERMINISM 186 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LAPLACE'S SUPERBEING 187 THE
CONSEQUENCE ARGUMENT 188 BOX: FREEDOM AND FOREKNOWLEDGE 189 THOUGHT
PROBE: FOREKNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM 189 BOX: FATALISM VERSUS CAUSAL
DETERMINISM 191 BOX: EMERGING DEFENCES TO CRIME 192 THOUGHT PROBE:
LEGITIMATE DEFENSES? 192 THOUGHT PROBE: THE BOOK OF LIFE 193 SCIENCEAND
DETERMINISM 193 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: GARDNER'S RANDOM BOMBARDIER 196
COMMON SENSE AND CAUSAL DETERMINISM 196 BOX: IS DETERMINISM
SELF-REFUTING? 197 THOUGHT PROBE: DEFENDING DETERMINISM I 97 THOUGHT
PROBE: GENETIC CLEANSING 198 INDETERMINISM 198 BOX: WILLIAM ]AMES:
PHYSIOLOGIST, PSYCHOLOGIST, PHILOSOPHER 199 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: TAYLOR'S
UNPREDICTABLE ARM 200 SUMMARY 200 STUDY QUESTIONS 201 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 201 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: NEWCOMB'S PARADOX 201 SECTION 3.2 THE
MOTHER OF INVENTION: FREEDOM AS NECESSITY 203 TRADITIONAL COMPATIBILISM
204 BOX: THOMAS HOBBES: THE GREAT MATERIALIST 205 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
LOCKE'S TRAPPED CONVERSATIONALIST 205 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: TAYLOR'S
1NGENIOUS PHYSIOLOGIST 206 BOX: BETTER LIVING THROUGH NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
208 THOUGHT PROBE: BRAIN STIMULATION 208 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: TAYLOR'S
DRUG ADDICTION 208 THOUGHT PROBE: BRAINWASHING 209 HIERARCHICAL
COMPATIBILISM 209 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: FRANKFURT'S DECISION 1NDUCER 209
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: FRANKFURT'S UNWILLING AND WANTON ADDICTS 211 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: FRANKFURT'S HAPPY ADDICT 212 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: SLOTE'S
HYPNOTIZED PATIENT 213 THOUGHT PROBE: THE WILLING BANK TELLER 214
SUMMARY 214 STUDY QUESTIONS 215 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 215 CONTENTS XI
SECTION 3.3 CONTROL YOURSELF: FREEDOM AS SELFDETERMINATION 217 THE CASE
FOR FREEDOM 217 THE ARGUMENT FROM EXPERIENCE 217 THE ARGUMENT FROM
DELIBERATION 219 AGENT CAUSATION 221 BOX: SARTRE AND SMULLYAN ON FREE
WILL 223 THOUGHT PROBE: SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND FREE WILL 223 THOUGHT
PROBE: FREE ANDROIDS 226 SUMMARY 226 STUDY QUESTIONS 227 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 227 READINGS ROBERT BLATCHFORD: "THE DELUSION OF FREE WILL"
228 W. T. STACE: "THE PROBLEM OF FREE WILL" 233 CORLISS LAMONT: "FREEDOM
OF CHOIEE AND HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY" 238 THOMAS D. DAVIS: "PLEASE DON'T
TELL ME HOW THE STORY ENDS" 240 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 245
CHAPTCR4 THE PROBLEM OF PERSONAL IDENTITY 247 XII CONTENTS BOX: IN THE
NEWS: KATHLEEN SOLIAH, A.K.A. SARAFANE OLSON 251 THOUGHT PROBE: A
DIFFERENT PERSON 251 OBJECTIVES 252 SECTION 4.1 WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS
DREAMS ARE MADE ON: SELF AS SUBSTANCE 253 THOUGHT PROBE: HOBBES'S SHIP
OF THESEUS 254 PERSONS 255 THOUGHT PROBE: IS RACHAEL APERSON? 255
ANIMALISM 256 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE VEGETABLE CASE 256 BOX: THE
DEFINITION OF DEATH 260 THOUGHT PROBE: PERMANENTLY UNEONSCIOUS 260 BOX:
IN THE NEWS: ETEMAL LIFE THROUGH CLONING 261 THOUGHT PROBE: SAFE CLONING
261 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LOEKE'S TALE OF THE PRINEE AND THE COBBLER 261
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE TRANSPLANT CASE 262 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: UNGER'S
GREAT PAIN 263 THE SOUL THEORY 265 BOX: ST. AUGUSTINE: SOUL MAN 266
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE KING OF CHINA 267 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: NESTOR
ARUL THERSITES 268 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: KANT'S SOUL SWITCH 268 BOX:
TRANSUBSTANTIATION 269 BOX: NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES 270 THOUGHT PROBE:
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES 270 THOUGHT PROBE: SOULS IN HEAVEN 271 SUMMARY
271 STUDY QUESTIONS 272 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 272 SECTION 4.2 GOLDEN
MEMORIES: SELF AS PSYCHE 273 THE MEMORY THEORY 273 BOX: JOHN LOCKE: THE
GREAT EMPIRICIST 274 BOX: IN THE NEWS: MULTIPLE-PERSONALITY DISORDER 275
THOUGHT PROBE: MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES 275 THE LNCONSISTENCYOBJECTION 276
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: REID'S TALE OF THE BRAVE OFFICER ARUL SENILE GENERAL
276 THOUGHT PROBE: WERE YOU EVER A FETUS? 277 THE CIRCULARITY OBJECTION
278 BOX: IN THE NEWS: SOUL CATCHER 280 THOUGHT PROBE: SOUL CATCHER 280
THE LNSUFFICIENCYOBJECTION 281 THOUGHT PROBE: IS DARTH VADER ANAKIN
SKYWALKER? 282 THE REDUPLICATION PROBLEM 282 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
WILLIAMS'S REINCARNATION OF GUY FAWKES 283 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
WILLIAMS'S REDUPLICATION ARGUMENT 283 BOX: PAST-LIFE HYPNOTIC REGRESSION
284 THOUGHT PROBE: PAST-LIFE HYPNOTIC REGRESSION 284 BOX: QUANTUM
TELEPORTATION 286 THOUGHT PROBE: TRANSPORTER TRAVEL 286 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: PARFIT'S TRANSPORTER TALE 286 THOUGHT PROBE: CAN YOU GO TO
HEAVEN? 288 SUMMARY 288 STUDY QUESTIONS 289 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 289
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: BODILY TORTURE 290 SECTION 4.3 YOU CAN'T STEP INTO
THE SAME RIVER TWICE: SELF AS PROCESS 291 THE BRAIN THEORY 291 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: SHOEMAKER'S BRAIN TRANSPLANT 291 BOX: A BRAIN IS A TERRIBLE
THING TO WASTE 293 THOUGHT PROBE: BODY TRANSPLANTS 293 CONTENTS XIII XIV
CONTENTS SPLIT BRAINS 293 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: PARFIT'S DIVISION 295
CLOSEST CONTINUER THEORIES 295 BOX: ALIEN HAND SYNDROME 296 THOUGHT
PROBE: WHO IS BEHIND THE HAND? 296 THOUGHT PROBE: BRANCH LINES 297
IDENTITY AND WHAT MATTERS IN SURVIVAL 297 IDENTITY AND WHAT MATTERS IN
RESPONSIBILITY 298 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: PARFIT'S REFORMED NOBE/IST 299
EXPLAINING THE SELF 299 BOX: BUDDHISTS ON THE SELF AND NIRVANA 300
THOUGHT PROBE: ROBERT AND FRANK 301 MORAL AGENTS, NARRATIVES, AND
PERSONS 301 THOUGHT PROBE: BEING CLIVE WARING 303 SUMMARY 303 STUDY
QUESTIONS 304 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 304 READINGS ]OHN LOCKE: "OF IDENTITY
AND DIVERSITY" 305 THOMAS REID: "ON MR. LOEKE'S AECOUNT OF PERSONAL
IDENTITY" 312 DEREK PARFIT: "DIVIDED MINDS AND THE NATURE OF PERSONS"
315 RAY KURZWEIL: "LIVE FOREVER" 320 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 323
CHAPTCR 5 THE PROBLEM OF RELATIVISM AND MORALITY 325 OBJECTIVES 328
SEETION 5.1 DON'T QUESTION AUTHORITY: MIGHT MAKES RIGHT 329 SUBJECTIVE
ABSOLUTISM 329 SUBJECTIVE RELATIVISM 330 EMOTIVISM 331 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: BLANSHARD'S RABBIT 332 CULTURAL RELATIVISM 333 BOX: IN THE
NEWS: UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS 334 THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 335 THE
LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF MORAL JUDGMENTS 336 BOX: MORAL CHILDREN 337 THOUGHT
PROBE: MORAL CHILDREN 337 THOUGHT PROBE: WHEN IN ROME 338 THE DIVINE
COMMAND THEORY 338 BOX: THE FORTUNES OF HELL 342 THOUGHT PROBE:
COMMANDED TO KILL 343 ARE THERE UNIVERSAL MORAL PRINCIPLES? 343 THOUGHT
PROBE: MORAL KNOWLEDGE 344 SUMMARY 344 STUDY QUESTIONS 345 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 346 SEETION 5.2 THE END }USTIFIES THE MEANS: GOOD MAKES RIGHT
347 BOX: IS LIFE INTRINSICALLY VALUABLE? 348 THOUGHT PROBE: MORAL J
USTIFICATION 348 ETHICAL EGOISM 348 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: FEINBERG'S
SINGLE-MINDED HEDONIST 350 BOX: AYN RAND ON THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS
352 ACT-UTILITARIANISM 352 BOX: JEREMY BENTHAM: MAKING PHILOSOPHY DA
WORK 354 THOUGHT PROBE: ANIMAL RIGHTS 355 PROBLEMS WITH RIGHTS 356
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: MECLOSKEY'S UTILITARIAN INFORMANT 356 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: BRANDT'S UTILITARIAN HEIR 356 PROBLEMS WITH DUTIES 357
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ROSS'S UNHAPPY PROMISE 357 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
GODWIN'S FIRE RESEUE 358 PROBLEMS WITH JUSTICE 358 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
EWING'S UTILITARIAN TORTURE 358 BOX: IN THE NEWS: KILLING DISABLED
BABIES 360 THOUGHT PROBE: SINGER'S "PREFERENCE UTILITARIANISM" 360
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: EWING'S INNOEENT CRIMINAL 360 THOUGHT PROBE: THE
UTILITY MACHINE 361 RULE-UTILITARIANISM 361 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: NOZIEK'S
EXPERIENEE MACHINE 363 THOUGHT PROBE: BENEFIEIAL DRUGS 364 SUMMARY 364
STUDY QUESTIONS 365 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 366 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
WILLIAMS'S SOUTH AMERIEAN SHOWDOWN 366 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THOMSON'S
TROLLEY PROBLEM 366 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THOMSON'S TRANSPLANT PROBLEM 367
CONTENTS XV XVI CONTENTS SEETION 5.3 MUCH OBLIGED: DUTY MAKES RIGHT 368
KANT'S CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE 368 THE FIRST FORMULATION 369 BOX:
IMMANUEL KANT: SMALL-TOWN GENIUS 370 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: HARE'S NAZI
FANATIC 371 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ROSS'S GOOD SAMARITAN 372 THE
SECONDFORMULATION 373 BOX: NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE RIGHTS 375 THOUGHT
PROBE: MEDIEAL TREATMENT 375 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: BROAD'S TYPHOID MAN 375
BOX: IN THE NEWS: KANT, MILL, AND THE WAR IN IRAQ 376 THOUGHT PROBE: WAR
376 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: EWING'S PRUDENT DIPLOMAT 376 THOUGHT PROBE: EASY
RESCUE 377 ROSS'S PRIMA FADE DUTIES 377 THOUGHT PROBE: DESERT ISLAND
BEQUEST 378 RAWLS'S CONTRACTARIANISM 379 THOUGHT PROBE: JUST POLICIES
382 NOZICK'S LIBERTARIANISM 382 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: NOZICK'S BASKETBALL
PLAYER 383 BOX: NO-VICTIM CRIMES 384 THOUGHT PROBE: LEGALIZING NO-VICTIM
CRIMES 384 THOUGHT PROBE: PROPERTY RIGHTS 384 THE SODAL CONTRACT 385
HOBBES 385 LOCKE 386 NOZICK 386 THOUGHT PROBE: PREEMPTIVE INCARCERATION
387 THE ETHICS OF CARE 388 THOUGHT PROBE: LYING WITH CARE 390 MAKING
ETHICAL DECISIONS 390 BOX: IN THE NEWS: JILLIAN'S CHOICE 391 THOUGHT
PROBE: JILLIAN'S CHOICE 391 THOUGHT PROBE: THE ZYGMANIK BROTHERS 393
SUMMARY 393 STUDY QUESTIONS 394 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 394 SEETION 5.4
CHARACTER IS DESTINY: VIRTUE MAKES RIGHT 396 THE VIRTUOUS UTILITARIAN
396 THE VIRTUOUS KANTIAN 397 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: STOCKER'S HOSPITALIZED
PATIENT 397 THE PURPOSE OF MORALITY 398 BOX: CHILDREN WITHOUT A
CONSCIENCE 399 THOUGHT PROBE: EMPATHY AND AGENCY 399 ARISTOTLE ON VIRTUE
400 MACINTYRE ON VIRTUE 402 BOX: ARISTOTLE: PILLAR OF WESTERN THOUGHT
403 BOX: THE BUDDHA ON VIRTUE 404 VIRTUE ETHICS 405 THOUGHT PROBE: THE
RING OF GYGES 406 SUMMARY 406 STUDY QUESTIONS 407 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
407 READINGS W. T. STACE: "ARE ETHICAL VALUES RELATIVE?" 408 ]EREMY
BENTHAM: "OFTHE PRINCIPLE OFUTILITY" 414 IMMANUEL KANT: "GOOD WILL,
DUTY, AND THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE" 417 ]OHN RAWLS: "THE ORIGINAL
POSITION ANDLUSTIFICATION" 422 ALASDAIR MACINTYRE: "THE VIRTUES" 425
URSULA K. LEGUIN: "THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS" 429 SUGGESTIONS
FOR FURTHER READING 432 CHARTER 6 THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND THE EXISTENCE
OF GOD 433 BOX: BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 437 THOUGHT PROBE: BIBLICAL TRUTHS
437 OBJECTIVES 439 SEETION 6.1 THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE: GOD AS CREATOR
440 THE TRADITIONAL COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 440 BOX: THOMAS AQUINAS 442
THE KALAM COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 443 THOUGHT PROBE: WHY A UNIVERSE? 447
THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 447 THE ANALOGICAL DESIGN ARGUMENT 447 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: PALEY'S WATCH 448 THE BEST-EXPLANATION DESIGN ARGUMENT 451
BOX: EXTRATERRESTRIAL DESIGN 456 THOUGHT PROBE: INTELLIGENT DESIGN 456
CONTENTS XVII XVIII CONTENTS THOUGHT PROBE: HUMAN DESIGN FLAWS 458 THE
ARGUMENT FROM MIRACLES 459 BOX: PARTING THE RED SEA 460 THOUGHT PROBE:
PARTING THE RED SEA 460 THOUGHT PROBE: THE FIVEFOLD COOL/ENGE 462 BOX:
WAS JESUS A MAGICIAN? 463 THOUGHT PROBE: JESUS'S MIRACLES 463 THE
ARGUMENT FROM RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 464 BOX: THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON GOD
465 THOUGHT PROBE: RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 465 THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 467
ANSELM'SONTOLOGICALARGUMENT 467 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: GAUNILO'S LOST
ISLAND 468 DESCARTES' ONTOLOGICALARGUMENT 469 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
EDWARDS'S GANGLE 470 THOUGHT PROBE: ONE MORE GOD 471 PASCAL'S WAGER 471
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: PASCAL'S WAGER 472 BOX: SILVERMAN'S WAGER 473
THOUGHT PROBE: THE BEST BET 473 THOUGHT PROBE: ALIEN RELIGION 474
SUMMARY 475 STUDY QUESTIONS 476 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 476 SEETION 6.2
WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE: GOD AS TROUBLEMAKER 478 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: ROWE'S FAWN 478 THE ONTOLOGICAL DEFENSE 480 THE KNOWLEDGE
DEFENSE 480 BOX: MARK TWAIN ON ADAM AND EVE 481 THOUGHT PROBE: ADAM AND
EVE 481 THE FREE-WILL DEFENSE 481 BOX: NATURAL EVIL: WRATH OF GOD? 483
THOUGHT PROBE: WRATH OF GOD 483 THOUGHT PROBE: IS THERE FREE WILL IN
HEAVEN? 484 THE IDEAL-HUMANITY DEFENSE 484 THE SOUL-BUILDING DEFENSE 485
BOX: KARMA AND THE PROBLEM OF INEQUALITY 486 THOUGHTPROBE: KARMA 486 THE
FINITE-GOD DEFENSE 487 BOX: IS GOD ALL GOOD? 489 THOUGHT PROBE: GOD'S
GOODNESS 489 THOUGHT PROBE: WHAT IF GOD DIED? 490 SUMMARY 490 STUDY
QUESTIONS 491 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 491 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: THE INVISIBLE
GARDENER 492 SECTION 6.3: FAITH AND MEANING: BELIEVING THE UNBELIEVABLE
493 THE LEAP OF FAITH 493 EVIDENTIALISM 495 THOUGHT PROBE: BLANSHARD'S
BELIEFS 499 THE WILL TO BELIEVE 499 THE MEANINGOF LIFE 501 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: GOD'S PLAN 501 EXISTENTIALISM 502 RELIGION WITHOUT GOD 504
SUMMARY 505 STUDY QUESTIONS 505 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 506 READINGS ST.
THOMAS AQUINAS: "THE FIVE WAYS" 507 RICHARD SWINBURNE: "NATURAL
THEOLOGY" 509 DAVID HUME: "DIALOGUES CONCEMING NATURAL RELIGION" 513 B.
C. }OHNSON: "GOD AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL" 518 MICHAEL MARTIN: "THE
MIRACLE SLEUTH" 522 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 527 CLRAPTER 7 THE
PROBLEM OF SKEPTICISM AND KNOWLEDGE 529 OBJECTIVES 536 SEETION 7.1
THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM: SKEPTICISM ABOUT SKEPTICISM 537
GREEK RATIONALISM 537 PARMENIDES 538 THOUGHT PROBE: THINKING ABOUT
NOTHING 538 ZENO 539 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ZENO'S PARADOX OF BISECTION 539
CONTENTS XIX XX CONTENTS PLATO 540 BOX: SOLVING PARMENIDES' AND ZENO'S
PARADOXES 541 BOX: IN THE NEWS: ARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?
544 THOUGHT PROBE: BOSTROM'S SIMULATION ARGUMENT 545 THOUGHT PROBE:
INNATE KNOWLEDGE 546 CARTESIAN SKEPTICISM 546 CARTESIAN DOUBT 546
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: DESCARTES' DREAM ARGUMENT 547 THOUGHT PROBE: DREAMS
AND REALITY 547 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: DESCARTES' EVIL GENIUS ARGUMENT 548
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: UNGER'S MAD SCIENTIST 548 CARTESIAN CERTAINTY 550
REASONABLEDOUBT 552 THE EMPIRICISTALTERNATIVE 553 THOUGHT PROBE: THE
PROBLEM OI INDUCTION 554 THE KANTIAN SYNTHESIS 555 THOUGHT PROBE:
CONSTRUCTING REALITY 557 SUMMARY 557 STUDY QUESTIONS 558
DISCUSSIONQUESTIONS 559 SEETION 7.2 FACING REALITY: PERCEPTION AND THE
EXTERNAL WORLD 560 DIRECT REALISM 560 REPRESENTATIVEREALISM 562 THOUGHT
PROBE: HYPOTHESIZING THE EXTERNAL WORLD 563 PHENOMENALISM 564 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: THE INCONCEIVABILITY OI THE UNCONCEIVED 565 BOX: GEORGE
BERKELEY: THE ULTIMATE EMPIRICIST 567 SUMMARY 570 STUDY QUESTIONS 571
DISCUSSIONQUESTIONS 571 SEETION 7.3 WHAT DO YOU KNOW? KNOWING WHAT
KNOWLEDGE IS 573 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: GETTIER'S JOB SEEKERS 574 THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT: GETTIER'S GUY IN BARCELONA 575 THE DEFEASIBILITYTHEORY 577
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LEHRER AND PAXSON'S DEMENTED MRS. GRABIT 577 THE
CAUSAL THEORY 578 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: GOLDMAN'S FAKE BAMS 579 THE
RELIABILITYTHEORY 580 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: LEHRER'S HUMAN THERMOMETER 581
THE EXPLANATIONIST THEORY 582 SUMMARY 584 STUDY QUESTIONS 585 DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS 586 READINGS RENE DESCARTES: "MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY:
MEDITATIONS I AND IV" 587 GEORGE BERKELEY: "OF THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN
KNOWLEDGE" 594 EDMUND L. GETTIER: "IS JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEF KNOWLEDGE?"
597 THOMAS D. DAVIS: "WHY DON'T YOUJUST WAKE UP?" 599 SUGGESTIONS FOR
FURTHER READING 601 CREDITS C-L INDEX I-I CONTENTS XXI |
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