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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... truth of its conclusion . What else is required ? Clearly that we know or have rational grounds for believing that the premises are true . If we know that the Cosmo- logical Argument is deductively valid and can estab- lish that its ...
... truth of its conclusion . What else is required ? Clearly that we know or have rational grounds for believing that the premises are true . If we know that the Cosmo- logical Argument is deductively valid and can estab- lish that its ...
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... truth by itself at all . It is only truth as tech- nically verified that interests her . The truth of truths might come in merely affirmative form , and she would decline to touch it . Such truth as that , she might repeat with Clifford ...
... truth by itself at all . It is only truth as tech- nically verified that interests her . The truth of truths might come in merely affirmative form , and she would decline to touch it . Such truth as that , she might repeat with Clifford ...
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... truth , because the claim is true regardless of whether anyone believes it . A judgment is subjec- tively true just in case its truth depends on whether someone endorses it . To insist that chocolate is tastier than vanilla , or that ...
... truth , because the claim is true regardless of whether anyone believes it . A judgment is subjec- tively true just in case its truth depends on whether someone endorses it . To insist that chocolate is tastier than vanilla , or that ...
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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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