The stone reader: modern philosophy in 133 arguments

Content: Section I. Philosophy : New impressions of an old profession : What is a philosopher? / Simon Critchley 
 The flight of curiosity / Justin E.H. Smith 
 Philosophy as an art of dying / Costica Bradatan 
 Philosophy: what\'s the use? / Gary Gutting 
 In the cave: philosophy and addiction / Peg O\'Connor 
 Women in philosophy?: Do the math / Sally Haslanger 
 What\'s wrong with philosophy? / Linda Martín Alcoff 
 The disappearing women / Rae Langton 
 The difficulty of philosophy / Alexander George 
 The philosophical dinner party / Frieda Klotz 
 When Socrates met Phaedrus: eros in philosophy / Simon Critchley --
The geography of philosophy : The Enlightenment\'s \"race\" problem and ours / Justin E.H. Smith 
 Kung fu for philosophers / Peimin Ni 
 Bridging the analytic-continental divide / Gary Gutting 
 Of cannibals, kings and culture: the problem of ethnocentricity / Adam Etinson 
 Found in translation / Hamid Dabashi 
 Born again in a second language / Costica Bradatan 
 Philosophy\'s western bias / Justin E.H. Smith --
Rethinking thinkers : Spinoza\'s vision of freedom, and ours / Steven Nadler 
 Of Hume and bondage / Simon Blackburn 
 A feminist Kant / Carol Hay 
 Sartre and Camus in New York / Andy Martin 
 Kierkegaard\'s Antigone / Ulrika Carlsson 
 Freud\'s radical talking / Benjamin Y. Fong 
 Was Wittgenstein right? / Paul Horwich --
Old problems, new spins : Experiments in philosophy / Joshua Knobe 
 Your move: the maze of free will / Galen Strawson 
 The limits of the coded world / William Egginton 
 On modern time / Espen Hammer 
 Logic and neutrality / Timothy Williamson 
 Paradoxical truth / Graham Priest 
 The drama of existentialism / Gary Gutting 
 Reasons for reason / Michael P. Lynch 
 Reclaiming the imagination / Timothy Williamson 
 Are there natural human rights? / Michael Boylan --
Philosophy, literature and life : Is philosophy literature? / Jim Holt 
 Does great literature make us better? / Gregory Currie 
 Stormy weather: blues in winter / Avital Ronell 
 Poetry, medium and message / Ernie Lepore 
 Boxing lessons / Gordon Marino 
 The practical and the theoretical / Jason Stanley 
 The meaningfulness of lives / Todd May 
 The spoils of happiness / David Sosa --
Section II. Science : Can science explain everything? : What is naturalism? / Timothy Williamson 
 Why I am a naturalist / Alex Rosenberg 
 On ducking challenges to naturalism / Timothy Williamson 
 The core of Mind and cosmos / Thomas Nagel 
 Things fall apart / Philip Kitcher --
The evolution of right and wrong : Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? / Peter Railton 
 Evolution and our inner conflict / Edward O. Wilson 
 If peas can talk, should we eat them? / Michael Marder 
 The future of moral machines / Colin Allen 
 Cambridge, cabs and Copenhagen: my route to existential risk / Huw Price --
Where is my mind? Mary and the zombies: can science explain consciousness? / Gary Gutting 
 A real science of mind / Tyler Burge 
 Out of our brains / Andy Clark 
 Do thrifty brains make better minds? / Andy Clark. Blinded by neuroscience? : Bursting the neuro-utopian bubble / Benjamin Y. Fong 
 Bodies in motion: an exchange / Alex Rosenberg and William Egginton 
 Is neuroscience the death of free will? / Eddy Nahmias 
 Is the \"dumb jock\" really a nerd? / Jason Stanley and John W. Krakauer --
The social impact of science : Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton 
 Can neuroscience challenge Roe v. Wade? / William Egginton 
 Depression and the limits of psychiatry / Gary Gutting 
 Why are states so red and blue? / Steven Pinker 
 The enigma of Chinese medicine / Stephen T. Asma 
 The dangers of pseudoscience / Massimo Pigluicci and Maarten Boudry --
Can we live with uncertainty? : Nothing to see here: demoting the uncertainty principle / Craig Callender 
 The dangers of certainty: a lesson from Auschwitz / Simon Critchley 
 The riddle of the human species / Edward O. Wilson --
Section III. Religion and morals : What is faith? : Philosophy and faith / Gary Gutting 
 Mystery and evidence / Tim Crane 
 The rigor of love / Simon Critchley 
 Does it matter whether God exists? / Gary Gutting 
 The importance of the afterlife: seriously / Samuel Scheffler --
The varieties of religious disagreement : In praise of the clash with cultures / Carlos Fraenkel 
 What\'s wrong with blasphemy? / Andrew F. March 
 Why I love Mormonism / Simon Critchley 
 An imperfect God / Yoram Hazony 
 The politics of the binding of Issac / Omri Boehm 
 On questioning the Jewish State / Joseph Levine 
 The freedom of faith: a Christmas sermon / Simon Critchley --
Morality\'s God problem : Good minus God / Louise M. Antony 
 Morals without God? / Frans de Waal 
 The sacred and the humane / Anat Biletzki 
 Confessions of an ex-moralist / Joel Marks 
 Are we ready for a \"morality pill\"? / Peter Singer and Agata Sagan 
 The light at the end of suffering / Peg O\'Conner --
Some hard moral cases : The maze of moral relativism / Paul Boghossian 
 Is pure altruism possible? / Judith Lichtenberg 
 The living death of solitary confinement / Lisa Guenther 
 Should this be the last generation? / Peter Singer 
 The meat eaters / Jeff McMahan 
 Think before you breed / Christine Overall 
 On forgiveness / Charles L. Griswold 
 Questions for free-market moralists / Amia Srinivasan 
 The myth of universal love / Stephen T. Asma --
Section IV. Society : Economics and politics : Hegel on Wall Street / J.M. Bernstein 
 What is economics good for? / Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain 
 The taint of \"social Darwinism\" / Philip Kitcher 
 The veil of opulence / Benjamin Hale 
 Dependents of the state / Amia Srinivasan 
 The failure of rational choice philosophy / John McCumber 
 Mandela\'s socialist failure / Slavoj Žižek 
 When hope tramples truth / Roger Scruton --
The modern family : Is forced fatherhood fair? / Laurie Shrage 
 \"Mommy wars\" redux: a false conflict / Amy Allen 
 When culture, power and sex collide / Linda Martín Alcoff 
 Lady power / Nancy Bauer 
 The end of \"marriage\" / Laurie Shrage --
Black, white or other : Fugitive slave mentality / Robert Gooding-Williams 
 Walking while Black in the \"white gaze\" / George Yancy 
 Getting past the outrage of race / Gary Gutting 
 A lesson from Cuba on race / Alejandro de la Fuente 
 Is the United States a \"racial democracy\" / Jason Staley and Vesla Weaver 
 What if we occupied language? / H. Samy Alim 
 Does immigration mean \"France is over\"? / Justin E.H. Smith --
Freedom from the barrel of a gun : Who needs a gun? / Gary Gutting 
 The weapons continuum / Michael Boylan 
 The freedom of an armed society / Firmin DeBrabander 
 Is American nonviolence possible? / Todd May 
 The moral hazard of drones / John Kaag and Sarah Kreps 
 A crack in the stoic\'s armor / Nancy Sherman 
 Rethinking the \"just war\" / Jeff McMahan --
This American life : The gospel according to \"me\" / Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster 
 Deluded individualism / Firmin DeBrabander 
 The very angry tea party / J.M. Bernstein 
 Is our patriotism moral? / Gary Gutting 
 The cycle of revenge / Simon Critchley 
 What is a \"hacktivist\"? / Peter Ludlow 
 The myth of \"just do it\" / Barbara Gail Montero 
 How to live without irony / Christy Wampole 
 Navigating past nihilism / Sean D. Kelly.