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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 57
Page 308
... identity of the mental with the physical is not exactly of this sort , since it is held to be simultaneous identity rather than the identity of a thing at one time with the same thing at a later time . To take a closer example , one can ...
... identity of the mental with the physical is not exactly of this sort , since it is held to be simultaneous identity rather than the identity of a thing at one time with the same thing at a later time . To take a closer example , one can ...
Page 382
... identity . But once the assumption is exposed , its gratuitous- ness becomes apparent . Sameness or identity is an ambiguous notion ; borrowing vocabulary found in Hume himself , we can distinguish between " nu- merical identity " and ...
... identity . But once the assumption is exposed , its gratuitous- ness becomes apparent . Sameness or identity is an ambiguous notion ; borrowing vocabulary found in Hume himself , we can distinguish between " nu- merical identity " and ...
Page 395
... identity is just bodily identity . My argument will be very simi- lar to the one you used to convince me that per- sonal identity could not be identified with identity of an immaterial soul . Consider a person waking up tomorrow morn ...
... identity is just bodily identity . My argument will be very simi- lar to the one you used to convince me that per- sonal identity could not be identified with identity of an immaterial soul . Consider a person waking up tomorrow morn ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
24 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action animal Anselm's answer argu argument behavior believe body brain called causal cause Chiapa claim Cleanthes conceive concept consider Cosmological Argument creation science Cultural Relativism deny dependent desire determined distinct doubt dualism duty effect Egoism eliminative materialism ethical Ethical Egoism ethical subjectivism evidence evil example existence experience explain fact false feel follows freedom give happen happiness human Hume idea identity identity theory imagine infer infinite kind knowledge logical matter means ment mental meta-ethical mind moral responsibility motion motive never object one's pain particular perceived perhaps person Phil Philo philosophers physical pleasure possible premise principle problem problem of evil produce psychological egoism punishment qualia question reason religion scientific seems sensations sense someone sort soul strong AI subjectivism substance suppose theodicy theory things thought tion true truth understand universe Weirob words wrong