Twenty Questions An Introduction to Philosophy
by Bowie, G.; Michaels, Meredith; Solomon, RobertEdition: 7th
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Pub. Date: 2010-01-25
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary
How should I make (and spend) money? What gives my life meaning? Should I be afraid of death? Philosophical questions such as these--timely, personal, and relevant to daily life--are explored in TWENTY QUESTIONS. Through an exploration of classical and contemporary approaches to these problems in philosophy, literature, and beyond, TWENTY QUESTIONS challenges you to reflect on the role of philosophical thinking in your own life.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Philosophy, Religion and the Meaning of Life | |
| What Gives My Life Meaning? | |
| The Summer Day | |
| Life and Meaning | |
| A Confession | |
| The Meaning of Life: A Philosophical Question | |
| On Doing Philosophy of Religion | |
| Compassion and the Individual | |
| Love as the Practice of Freedom | |
| The Absurd | |
| Gratitude: The Idea of Life as a Gift | |
| What Should I Believe About the Existence and Nature of God? | |
| Faith and Reason | |
| The Ontological Argument | |
| Whether God Exists | |
| The Teleological Argument | |
| Why Does God Let People Suffer? | |
| Proving the Existence of God by Way of Morality | |
| The Leap of Faith and the Limits of Reason | |
| The Will To Believe | |
| God is Dead | |
| The Anti-Christ | |
| Intimate Creation: God's Body, Our Home | |
| The Existence and Nature of God | |
| Nightmare | |
| Should I Be Afraid of Death? | |
| ?The Essential Phowa | |
| The Death of Socrates | |
| A Taoist on Death | |
| Epicurus: Death is Nothing to Us | |
| Death, Fetishism, and Morbid Solipsism | |
| Death | |
| The Strangeness of Death | |
| The Unknown Soldier | |
| Science, Mind, and Nature | |
| What Does Science Tell Me About the World? | |
| The Deductive-Nomological Model of Science | |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | |
| Science: Conjectures and Refutations | |
| Feminism and Science | |
| Seeking New Laws of Nature | |
| Which Should I Believe: Evolution, Creation, or Design? | |
| The Bible: Genesis | |
| The Descent of Man | |
| Is Evolutionary Theory a Secular Religion? | |
| Science and Design | |
| Darwin vs. Intelligent Design | |
| Response to Critics | |
| Show Me the Science | |
| How Is My Mind Connected to My Body? | |
| Mind as Distinct From Body | |
| The Concept of Mind | |
| Robots and Minds | |
| The Puzzle of Conscious Experience | |
| The Problem of Consciousness | |
| The Mysterious Flame | |
| Consciousness: How Much is that in Real Money? | |
| Thinking and Knowing | |
| What Do I Know? | |
| The Myth of the Cave | |
| Meditations I and II | |
| Keanu's Cartesian Meditations | |
| Through the Looking Glass | |
| Where Our Ideas Come From | |
| To Be Is to Be Perceived | |
| Appearance and Reality | |
| What Can She Know? | |
| Does Language Make Me Think the Way I Do? | |
| Getting Rid of Words | |
| Meaning as Use | |
| Language, Thought, and Reality | |
| The Language Instinct | |
| Humpty Dumpty | |
| The Dilemmas of Personhood | |
| Who Am I? | |
| The First Night | |
| Of Identity and Diversity | |
| Of Personal Identity | |
| Persons, Brains, and Bodies | |
| Personal Identity: Many Criteria | |
| Identity and Identities | |
| Why Are My Emotions Important to Me? | |
| On Anger | |
| The Passions of the Soul | |
| On Pride | |
| What Is an Emotion? | |
| Emotions as Transformations of the World | |
| What Love Is | |
| Grief | |
| Can Science Tell Us Why We Fall, and Stay, in Love? | |
| Destructive Emotions | |
| What Should I Think About the Morality of Abortion? | |
| Abortion and Life | |
| Abortion and Life | |
| A Defense of Abortion | |
| The Beginning of Individual Human Life | |
| When Does a Person Begin? | |
| Essentially Contested Concepts and the Problem of Abortion | |
| Right to Life: What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman? | |
| What Should I Think About Terrorism and Torture? | |
| Terrorism and Just War | |
| What is Terrorism, Why is it Wrong, and Could it Ever be Morally Permissable? | |
| Questions Regarding a War on Terrorism | |
| The Truth About Torture | |
| Torture in Dreamland: Disposing of the Ticking Bomb | |
| How Does Racism Affect My Life? | |
| Early Memory: The California Zephyr | |
| Anti-Semite and Jew | |
| Racisms | |
| Is Racism in the "Heart"? | |
| Racial Cognition and the Ethics of Implicit Bias Sally Haslanger: Future Genders? | |
| Future Races? | |
| Spiks and Gringos | |
| Living a Good Life | |
| Why Shouldn't I Be Selfish? | |
| get it and feel good | |
| The Ring of Gyges | |
| The Pursuit of Pleasure | |
| People are Selfish | |
| The Selfish Gene | |
| Adventures in Good and Evil: The Evolutionary Roots of Morality | |
| Ethical Egoism | |
| The Virtue of Selfishness | |
| Ivan Boesky's Choice | |
| The Good Doctor | |
| The Life of the Saint | |
| Does It Matter What Gender I Am? | |
| The Subjection of Women | |
| Woman as Other | |
| The Right Definition of Women | |
| A Progressive Male Standpoint | |
| It's a Jungle Out There | |
| The "F" word | |
| What Is the Right Thing for Me to Do? | |
| The Bible: The Ten Commandments and The Sermon on the Mount | |
| Confucius: The Analects | |
| The Koran: The Unjust | |
| Happiness and the Good Life | |
| Morality is an Emotional Response | |
| Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
| Utilitarianism | |
| The Natural History of Morals | |
| Freedom and Morality | |
| One Feminist View of Ethics | |
| Through the Moral Maze | |
| I Like It, but Is It Art? | |
| What Is Art? | |
| The Culture Industry | |
| Art, Beauty, and Judgment | |
| What Has Beauty to do with Art? | |
| Art, Practice, and Narrative | |
| The Music of our Lives | |
| The Male Gaze. ? | |
| Justice and Responsibility | |
| Am I Free to Choose What I Do? | |
| Voluntary and Involuntary Action | |
| Are We Cogs in the Universe? | |
| Twilight of an Error | |
| Meaning and Free Will | |
| Freedom and Responsibility | |
| Freedom and the Control of Men | |
| Do We Have Free Will? | |
| Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility | |
| The Significance of Free Will: Old Dispute, New Themes | |
| What Do I Justly Deserve? | |
| Does Might Make Right | |
| Justice and the Social Contract | |
| A Utilitarian Theory of Justice | |
| Justice as Fairness | |
| The Principle of Fairness | |
| Triumph of Hope over Self-Interest | |
| Rich and Poor | |
| The Myth of Merit | |
| Property and Hunger | |
| Human Rights, Civil Rights | |
| Justice, Care, and Gender Bias | |
| How Should I Make (and Spend) Money? | |
| On Business | |
| Benefits of the Profit Motive | |
| The Immorality of Capitalism | |
| The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits | |
| Shareholders and Social Responsibility | |
| Ford Motor Company: The Ford Pinto Memo | |
| Crime in the Suites | |
| SweatX is Chic | |
| Honest Work | |
| The Hidden Costs of Money | |
| Making Money and the Importance of the Virtues | |
| What's a Business For? | |
| Follow Your Bliss | |
| Credits | |
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