Philosophy: Basic Readings

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 12
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION......Page 14
INTRODUCTION WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?......Page 16
1 WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?......Page 18
2 PHILOSOPHY......Page 20
3 THINK......Page 26
4 ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY......Page 32
5 THE METHOD OF PHILOSOPHY......Page 36
6 THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY......Page 39
7 SENSE AND NONSENSE......Page 44
SECTION I GOD......Page 54
8 PROOFS OF GOD......Page 56
9 THE WAGER......Page 70
10 EVIL AND OMNIPOTENCE......Page 73
11 WHY GOD ALLOWS EVIL......Page 84
12 OF MIRACLES......Page 95
13 VIRUSES OF THE MIND......Page 106
14 IS GOD A FICTION?......Page 118
15 THE MAKROPULOS CASE: REFLECTIONS ON THE TEDIUM OF IMMORTALITY......Page 133
SECTION II RIGHT AND WRONG......Page 150
16 ABOUT ETHICS......Page 152
17 THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE......Page 161
18 THE EXPERIENCE MACHINE......Page 163
19 HIGHER AND LOWER PLEASURES......Page 166
20 A CRITIQUE OF UTILITARIANISM......Page 171
21 THE SOLZHENITSYN PRINCIPLE......Page 185
22 NEO-ARISTOTELIANISM......Page 189
23 A DEFENCE OF ABORTION......Page 202
24 MORAL LUCK......Page 217
25 RELATIVISM......Page 229
26 DESIRE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE......Page 233
SECTION III POLITICS......Page 238
27 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY......Page 240
28 OF THE NATURAL CONDITION OF MANKIND......Page 243
29 TWO CONCEPTS OF LIBERTY......Page 247
30 A NEW MAP OF CENSORSHIP......Page 258
31 PLAYTHINGS OF ALIEN FORCES: KARL MARX AND THE REJECTION OF THE MARKET ECONOMY......Page 264
32 DISCRIMINATION AND SEXUAL JUSTICE......Page 273
33 LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM CITY JAIL......Page 285
34 ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL......Page 292
SECTION IV THE EXTERNAL WORLD......Page 304
35 ABOUT THE THINGS WE MAY DOUBT......Page 306
36 DESCARTES......Page 313
37 COLOURS......Page 330
38 OF THE ORIGIN OF IDEAS......Page 333
39 DISEMBODIED TELEPRESENCE AND THE REMOTENESS OF THE REAL......Page 337
SECTION V SCIENCE......Page 352
40 WHY EXPECT THE SUN TO RISE TOMORROW?......Page 354
41 NATURE......Page 363
42 THE PROBLEM OF DEMARCATION......Page 366
43 ANOMALY AND THE EMERGENCE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES......Page 377
44 HOW TO DEFEND SOCIETY AGAINST SCIENCE......Page 380
45 FEYERABEND: ANYTHING GOES......Page 391
46 WITTGENSTEIN AND THE TWO CULTURES......Page 397
SECTION VI MIND......Page 402
47 ‘THE DIARY’ AND ‘THE BEETLE IN THE BOX’......Page 404
48 SENSATIONS AND BRAIN PROCESSES......Page 406
49 MINDS, BRAINS, AND PROGRAMS......Page 418
50 WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A BAT?......Page 437
51 WHERE AM I?......Page 449
52 THE DISEMBODIED LADY......Page 461
SECTION VII ART......Page 470
53 ART AND MIMESIS IN PLATO’S ‘REPUBLIC’......Page 472
54 SIGNIFICANT FORM......Page 490
55 THE INTENTIONAL FALLACY......Page 495
56 OF THE STANDARD OF TASTE......Page 508
57 TWO PARADOXES......Page 523
58 PHOTOGRAPHY AND REPRESENTATION......Page 527
59 WHAT IS WRONG WITH A FORGERY?......Page 551
60 PIERRE MENARD, AUTHOR OF THE QUIXOTE......Page 565
APPENDIX 1: SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING......Page 572
APPENDIX 2: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SOURCES......Page 575
INDEX......Page 579