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 139
... kind are in fact constantly conjoined with events of the second kind ; and the so- called necessity that the second follow the first is simply the reflection of our habitual expectation . Hume would not have us deny the plain reports of ...
... kind are in fact constantly conjoined with events of the second kind ; and the so- called necessity that the second follow the first is simply the reflection of our habitual expectation . Hume would not have us deny the plain reports of ...
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... kind of dualism but abandoned the commonsense view that mind and body really do interact causally . Some held , for example , that the wood sliver's penetration of my flesh does not cause me pain ; rather , it is the occasion for God ...
... kind of dualism but abandoned the commonsense view that mind and body really do interact causally . Some held , for example , that the wood sliver's penetration of my flesh does not cause me pain ; rather , it is the occasion for God ...
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... kind of freedom with which the traditional problem is concerned . Fortunately we can at least make a beginning with a certain amount of confidence . It is not seri- ously disputable that the kind of freedom in ques- tion is the freedom ...
... kind of freedom with which the traditional problem is concerned . Fortunately we can at least make a beginning with a certain amount of confidence . It is not seri- ously disputable that the kind of freedom in ques- tion is the freedom ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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