Philosophy: Basic Readings

"Nigel Warburton brings philosophy to life with an imaginative selection of philosophical writings on key topics. Philosophy: Basic Readings is structured around the same key themes as its companion volume, Philosophy: The Basics, but is also ideal for independent use on any introductory philosophy course."--BOOK JACKET.

Preface

xi

Preface to the second edition

xiii

Introduction: What is Philosophy?

1

(2)

What Does It All Mean?

3

(2)

Thomas Nagel

Philosophy

5

(6)

Edward Craig

Think

11

(6)

Simon Blackburn

Analytic Philosophy

17

(4)

D. H. Mellor

The Method of Philosophy

21

(3)

A. J. Ayer

The Value of Philosophy

24

(5)

Bertrand Russell

Sense and Nonsense

29

(10)

Bryan Magee

SECTION I: GOD

39

(96)

Proofs of God

41

(14)

Martin Gardner

The Wager

55

(3)

Blaise Pascal

Evil and Omnipotence

58

(11)

J. L. Mackie

Why God Allows Evil

69

(11)

Richard Swinburne

Of Miracles

80

(11)

David Hume

Viruses of the Mind

91

(12)

Richard Dawkins

Is God a Fiction?

103

(15)

Robin Le Poidevin

The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality

118

(17)

Bernard Williams

SECTION II: RIGHT AND WRONG

135

(88)

About Ethics

137

(9)

Peter Singer

The Categorical Imperative

146

(2)

Immanuel Kant

The Experience Machine

148

(3)

Robert Nozick

Higher and Lower Pleasures

151

(5)

John Stuart Mill

A Critique of Utilitarianism

156

(14)

Bernard Williams

The Solzhenitsyn Principle

170

(4)

Jonathan Glover

Neo-Aristotelianism

174

(13)

Rosalind Hursthouse

A Defence of Abortion

187

(15)

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Moral Luck

202

(12)

Thomas Nagel

Relativism

214

(4)

Bernard Williams

Desire and the Meaning of Life

218

(5)

Simon Blackburn

SECTION III: POLITICS

223

(66)

Political Philosophy

225

(3)

Jonathan Wolff

Of the Natural Condition of Mankind

228

(4)

Thomas Hobbes

Two Concepts of Liberty

232

(11)

Isaiah Berlin

A New Map of Censorship

243

(6)

Ronald Dworkin

Playthings of Alien Forces: Karl Marx and the Rejection of the Market Economy

249

(9)

Jonathan Wolff

Discrimination and Sexual Justice

258

(12)

Janet Radcliffe Richards

Letter From Birmingham City Jail

270

(7)

Martin Luther King Jr

All Animals Are Equal

277

(12)

Peter Singer

SECTION IV: THE EXTERNAL WORLD

289

(48)

About the Things We May Doubt

291

(7)

Rene Descartes

Descartes

298

(17)

Bernard Williams

Bryan Magee

Colours

315

(3)

George Berkeley

Of the Origin of Ideas

318

(4)

David Hume

Disembodied Telepresence and the Remoteness of the Real

322

(15)

Hubert Dreyfus

SECTION V: SCIENCE

337

(50)

Why Expect the Sun to Rise Tomorrow?

339

(9)

Stephen Law

Nature

348

(3)

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Problem of Demarcation

351

(11)

Karl Popper

Anomaly and the Emergence of Scientific Discoveries

362

(3)

Thomas Kuhn

How to Defend Society Against Science

365

(11)

Paul Feyerabend

Feyerabend: Anything Goes

376

(6)

Alain Sokal

Jean Bricmont

Wittgenstein and the Two Cultures

382

(5)

Ray Monk

SECTION VI: MIND

387

(68)

`The Diary' and `The Beetle in the Box'

389

(2)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sensations and Brain Processes

391

(12)

J. J. C. Smart

Minds, Brains, and Programs

403

(19)

John R. Searle

What is it Like to Be a Bat?

422

(12)

Thomas Nagel

Where Am I?

434

(12)

Daniel C. Dennett

The Disembodied Lady

446

(9)

Oliver Sacks

SECTION VII: ART

455

(102)

Art and Mimesis in Plato's `Republic'

457

(18)

M. F. Burnyeat

Significant Form

475

(5)

Clive Bell

The Intentional Fallacy

480

(13)

W. K. Wimsatt Jr

Monroe C. Beardsley

Of the Standard of Taste

493

(15)

David Hume

Two Paradoxes

508

(4)

Michael Clark

Photography and Representation

512

(24)

Roger Scruton

What is Wrong with a Forgery?

536

(14)

Alfred Lessing

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

550

(7)

Jorge Luis Borges

Appendix 1: suggestions for further reading

557

(3)

Appendix 2: acknowledgements and sources

560

(4)

Index

564

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