Philosophy Then and Now

Editors and Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Mind, Body, and Death. Introductory text: "Socrates and the Soul of Death": George Graham.Selected Readings: Plato, Phaedo (selections). Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, Correspondence, Passions of the Soul. Thomas Nagel, "Death". Gareth Matthews, "Life and Death as the Arrival and Departure of Psyche". Jerry Fodor, "The Mind-Body Problem". 2. Freedom and Determinism. Introductory Text: "Sartre on Being Free": George Graham and Harold Kincaid.Selected Readings: Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (selections). Pierre Simone de Laplace, Philosophical Essays on Determinism (selections). Daniel Dennett, "On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want". Robert Kane, "Free Will: The Elusive Ideal". 3. Philosophical Theology. Introductory Text: "Aquinas and the Rationality of Belief in God": Gregory Pence. Selected Readings: Thomas Aquinas, "Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God", from Summa Theologica. William Paley, "The Evidence of Design". John L. Mackie, "Arguments for Design". William L. Rowe, "The Cosmological Argument." R. M. Adams, "Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning...". Fydor Dostoevsky, "Why Does God Permit Evil?" from The Brothers Karamazov. 4. Knowledge and Scepticism. Introductory Text: "Descartes and Our Knowledge of the External World": G. Lynn Stephens. Selected Readings: Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (selections). Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (selections). W. V. O. Quine, "Posits and Reality". Bruce Aune, Knowledge, Mind and Nature (selections). 5. The Scientific Method. Introductory Text: "Mill and the Nature of Science": Harold Kincaid. Selected Readings: John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic (selections). Carl Hempel, Philosophy of Natural Science (selections). Karl Popper, "Philosophy of Science: A Personal Report". Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (selections). J. J. C. Smart, "Physics and Reality". 6. The Nature of

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