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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Page 262
... force and call up all our power , this gives us the idea of force and power . It is this nisus or strong en- deavor of which we are conscious , that is the original impression from which this idea is copied . But , first , we attribute ...
... force and call up all our power , this gives us the idea of force and power . It is this nisus or strong en- deavor of which we are conscious , that is the original impression from which this idea is copied . But , first , we attribute ...
Page 273
... force of Hume's skeptical argu- ments . The conclusion seems to be that we have no reason to believe in scientific predictions — no more reason than to believe on the basis of astrology , crystal gazing , or sheer blind guessing . " You ...
... force of Hume's skeptical argu- ments . The conclusion seems to be that we have no reason to believe in scientific predictions — no more reason than to believe on the basis of astrology , crystal gazing , or sheer blind guessing . " You ...
Page 274
... force is fan- tastically stronger than the gravitational force- roughly a billion billion billion billion times more powerful - but we don't usually notice it because most objects we deal with in everyday life are elec- trically neutral ...
... force is fan- tastically stronger than the gravitational force- roughly a billion billion billion billion times more powerful - but we don't usually notice it because most objects we deal with in everyday life are elec- trically neutral ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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