Puzzles & Perplexities Collected Essays

These essays present a balanced picture of Cahn's wide-ranging work, from free will to affirmative action, from belief in God to the teaching of philosophy.

Steven M. Cahn is professor of philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center

Preface

ix

Part I. Free Will

Free Will or Determinism?

3

(12)

Random Choices

15

(4)

Does God Know the Future?

19

(6)

Part II. Belief In God

Does God Exist?

25

(8)

Cacodaemony

33

(6)

The Moriarty Hypothesis

39

(4)

Job's Protest

43

(6)

The Noes Have It: Hume's Dialogues

49

(6)

Suppose God Exists

55

(2)

Religion without God

57

(8)

Part III. Morality, Society, and Art

A Supreme Moral Principle?

65

(6)

Two Concepts of Affirmative Action

71

(10)

The Curious Tale of Atlas College

81

(4)

Why Not Tell the Truth?

85

(2)

The Divestiture Puzzle

87

(4)

The Strange Case of John Shmarb

91

(4)

The Wife of Lear

95

(4)

Part IV. Education

John Dewey at Eighty

99

(8)

Are the Humanities Useful?

107

(4)

Should Liberal Education Change?

111

(4)

How to Improve Your Teaching

115

(4)

How to Teach Introductory Philosophy

119

(4)

Searching for Administrators: The Missing Step

123

(4)

Sources

127

(2)

Bibliography of Steven M. Cahn

129

(4)

Index

133

(4)

About the Author

137

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