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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... conclusion follows necessarily from its premises , but only that its premises establish a probability that the conclusion is true . It is therefore what logicians call an inductive argument . The famous argument from design , which is ...
... conclusion follows necessarily from its premises , but only that its premises establish a probability that the conclusion is true . It is therefore what logicians call an inductive argument . The famous argument from design , which is ...
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... conclusion would have to be true . It's clear from our example about Babe Ruth , however , that the fact that an argument is deduc- tively valid is insufficient to establish the truth of its conclusion . What else is required ? Clearly ...
... conclusion would have to be true . It's clear from our example about Babe Ruth , however , that the fact that an argument is deduc- tively valid is insufficient to establish the truth of its conclusion . What else is required ? Clearly ...
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... conclusion , however , concerns what really is the case . The trouble is that this sort of conclusion does not follow logically from this sort of premise . Consider again the example of the Greeks and Callatians . The Greeks believed it ...
... conclusion , however , concerns what really is the case . The trouble is that this sort of conclusion does not follow logically from this sort of premise . Consider again the example of the Greeks and Callatians . The Greeks believed it ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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