Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of PhilosophyJoel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau The Tenth Edition of this leading, topically-organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. The text covers reason and religious belief; human knowledge; mind and its place in nature; determinism; free will and responsibility; and morality and justice in five parts, with careful attention to opposing points of view. |
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... claim degenerates into the triviality that all those states of consciousness dependent upon a body are depen- dent upon that body , a claim too empty to be worth asserting . I believe that this argument is sound . But it is important to ...
... claim degenerates into the triviality that all those states of consciousness dependent upon a body are depen- dent upon that body , a claim too empty to be worth asserting . I believe that this argument is sound . But it is important to ...
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... claims in light of our thought experiment . 1. As regards the first claim , it seems to me quite obvious in the example that I do not understand a word of the Chinese stories . I have inputs and out- puts that are indistinguishable from ...
... claims in light of our thought experiment . 1. As regards the first claim , it seems to me quite obvious in the example that I do not understand a word of the Chinese stories . I have inputs and out- puts that are indistinguishable from ...
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... claim that the earth orbits around the sun is an objective truth , because the claim is true regardless of whether anyone believes it . A judgment is subjec- tively true just in case its truth depends on whether someone endorses it . To ...
... claim that the earth orbits around the sun is an objective truth , because the claim is true regardless of whether anyone believes it . A judgment is subjec- tively true just in case its truth depends on whether someone endorses it . To ...
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The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
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