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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... question next arises : Are there not some- where forced options in our speculative questions , and can we ( as men who may be interested at least as much in positively gaining truth as in merely es- caping dupery ) always wait with ...
... question next arises : Are there not some- where forced options in our speculative questions , and can we ( as men who may be interested at least as much in positively gaining truth as in merely es- caping dupery ) always wait with ...
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... question , " Did the man eat the hamburger ? " you will presumably answer , " Yes , he ate the hamburger . " Now Schank's machines can similarly answer questions about restaurants in this fashion . To do this , they have a ...
... question , " Did the man eat the hamburger ? " you will presumably answer , " Yes , he ate the hamburger . " Now Schank's machines can similarly answer questions about restaurants in this fashion . To do this , they have a ...
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... question of freedom , as John Locke said , is not the question whether the will be free ' ; it is the question whether a man be free . For if there is a ' will ' , as a moving faculty , the question is whether the man is free to will to ...
... question of freedom , as John Locke said , is not the question whether the will be free ' ; it is the question whether a man be free . For if there is a ' will ' , as a moving faculty , the question is whether the man is free to will to ...
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The Existence and Nature of | 6 |
Rebellion from The Brothers Karamazov | 84 |
Pascals Wager Defended | 118 |
Copyright | |
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