Core Elements of Philosophy: An Anthology

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What Is Philosophy?

Logic: The Study of Proper Reasoning
What Is Logic?—An Introduction – Michael Thune
“Five Reasons to Put Down the Smartphone” – Chandra Johnson
“Cracking Down on Diesel” – Carl Pope

Epistemology: The Study of Knowledge
What Is Epistemology?—An Introduction – Michael Thune
“Internalism and Externalism” – Laurence BonJour
“Reasonable Religious Disagreements” – Richard Feldman
“‘It Is Wrong, Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone, to Believe Anything Upon Insufficient Evidence’” – Peter Van Inwagen

Metaphysics: The Fundamental Nature of Reality
What Is the Fundamental Nature of Reality?—An Introduction – Jeffrey Wisdom
What Is the Nature of the Human Mind?
The Mind-Body Problem—An Introduction – Jeffrey Wisdom
“Bioethics, Substance Dualism, and the Argument from Self-Awareness” – J.P. Moreland
“Form, Function, and Feel” – William G. Lycan
“Epiphenomenal Qualia” – Frank Jackson
“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” – Thomas Nagel
“The Hornswoggle Problem” – Patricia Smith Churchland

Does Free Will Exist?
The Free Will Debate—An Introduction – Jeffrey Wisdom
“Of the System of Man’s Free Agency” – Baron d’Holbach
“Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable Without It” – R.E. Hobart
“Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” – Harry G. Frankfurt
“Truth’s Debt to Freedom” – Warner Wick

Ethics: The Nature of Right and Wrong
What Is the Nature of Morality?—An Introduction – Jeffrey Wisdom
“A Modest Transcendental Argument for Moral Realism” – Paul Bloomfield
“Moral Relativism” – Gilbert Harman
“The Case Against Moral Relativism” – Louis Pojman
“Darwinian Ethics and Error” – Richard Joyce
“Moral Distinctions Are Not Derived from Reason” – David Hume
“The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms” – Charles Leslie Stevenson
“On Friendship” – Aristotle

Philosophy of Religion: Thinking Philosophically about Religion
The Philosophy of Religion— An Introduction – Michael Thune and Jeffrey Wisdom
“The Case for Cosmic Design” – Robin Collins
“Collins’ Case for Cosmic Design” – Paul Draper
“The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism” – William Rowe
“The Local Argument from Evil” – Peter van Inwagen
“Suffering as Religious Experience” – Laura Waddell Ekstrom

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