A revised edition of Steven Cahn's book of short philosophical essays.
Steven M. Cahn is professor of philosophy at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Preface
p. ix
Free Will
Free Will or Determinism?
p. 3
Random Choices
p. 15
Time, Truth, and Ability
p. 19
Does God Know the Future?
p. 25
Belief In God
Does God Exist?
p. 31
The Problem of Goodness
p. 39
The Moriarty Hypothesis
p. 45
Job's Protest
p. 49
The Noes Have It: Hume's Dialogues
p. 53
Suppose God Exists
p. 59
Religion without God
p. 63
The Question: Plato's Euthyphro
p. 69
False Beliefs
p. 75
Morality, Society, and Art
A Supreme Moral Principle?
p. 79
Happiness and Immorality
p. 85
Meaningless Lives?
p. 89
Two Concepts of Affirmative Action
p. 93
The Curious Tale of Atlas College
p. 103
Why Not Tell the Truth?
p. 107
The Divestiture Puzzle
p. 109
The Strange Case of John Shmarb
p. 113
The Wife of Lear
p. 117
Education
The Distinctive Legacy of John Dewey
p. 121
Are the Humanities Useful?
p. 129
Should Liberal Education Change?
p. 133
How to Improve Your Teaching
p. 137
Teaching Introductory Philosophy
p. 141
Taking Teaching Seriously
p. 145
Teaching Graduate Students to Teach
p. 149
Searching for Administrators: The Missing Step
p. 153
Sources
p. 157
Index
p. 159
About the Author
p. 165
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