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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... person which is involved here . Strawson defines " person " very simply , as " a type of entity such that both predicates ascribing states of consciousness and predicates as- cribing corporeal characteristics , a physical situa- tion ...
... person which is involved here . Strawson defines " person " very simply , as " a type of entity such that both predicates ascribing states of consciousness and predicates as- cribing corporeal characteristics , a physical situa- tion ...
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... persons . In this context , the term " body " is simply used to mean a person . ( Some- times the reverse is the case . When we say " They searched his person , " we are using " person " to mean a body . ) There is another use which ...
... persons . In this context , the term " body " is simply used to mean a person . ( Some- times the reverse is the case . When we say " They searched his person , " we are using " person " to mean a body . ) There is another use which ...
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... person does something and make it impossible for him to avoid doing it . These include , for example , situations in which a person is coerced into doing something , or in which he is impelled to act by a hypnotic suggestion , or in ...
... person does something and make it impossible for him to avoid doing it . These include , for example , situations in which a person is coerced into doing something , or in which he is impelled to act by a hypnotic suggestion , or in ...
Contents
The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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