{"product_id":"readings-on-ultimate-questions-9780205731985","title":"Readings on Ultimate Questions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNils Ch. Rauhut studied philosophy and history at the University of Regensburg (Germany). He received an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Washington in Seattle. He taught at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and he is currently teaching at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePreface\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION 1: Why Study Philosophy?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is Enlightenment? \u003cem\u003eIMMANUEL KANT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTreatise on the Emendation of the Intellect \u003cem\u003eBARUCH SPINOZA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Menoeceus \u003cem\u003eEPICURUS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophy, a Bus Ride, and Dumb Luck \u003cem\u003eALFRED MELE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApology \u003cem\u003ePLATO\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Value of Philosophy \u003cem\u003eBERTRAND RUSSELL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION 2: What Do We Know?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eMeditations 1 and 2 \u003cem\u003eRENE DESCARTES \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Skeptic’s Manifesto \u003cem\u003eMICHAEL SHERMER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eThe Lure of Radical Skepticism \u003cem\u003eMICHAEL HUEMER\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppearance and Reality \u003cem\u003eBERTRAND RUSSELL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding \u003cem\u003eJOHN LOCKE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Priori Justification \u003cem\u003eLAURENCE BONJOUR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSECION 3: Do We Have Free Will?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeterminism \u003cem\u003eRICHARD TAYLOR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompatibilism \u003cem\u003eW.T.STACE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond Compatibilism: A Buddhist Approach to Freedom and Determinism \u003cem\u003eMARK SIDERITS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Consequence Argument \u003cem\u003ePETER VAN INWAGEN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuman Freedom and the Self \u003cem\u003eRODERICK CHISHOLM\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLibertarianism \u003cem\u003eROBERT KANE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION 4: Is There an Enduring Self?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality \u003cem\u003eJOHN PERRY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo Self in Buddhism \u003cem\u003eRONALD GREEN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Judaic-Christian Conception of the Person \u003cem\u003eJOHN HICK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Critique of Locke’s Theory of Personal Identity \u003cem\u003eTHOMAS REID\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eBrain Transplants and Personal Identity \u003cem\u003eDEREK PARFIT \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003eGODFREY VESEY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere Am I? \u003cem\u003eDANIEL DENNETT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeminist Perspectives on the Self \u003cem\u003eDIANA MEYERS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION 5: WHAT IS the Mind?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThey’re Made out of Meat \u003cem\u003eTERRY BISSON\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Argument for Dualism from “Alcibiades I” \u003cem\u003ePLATO\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Critique of Dualism \u003cem\u003ePAUL CHURCHLAND \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eA Defense of Dualism \u003cem\u003eJOHN FOSTER \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophical Behaviorism \u003cem\u003eJOHN HEIL \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nature of Mind \u003cem\u003eDAVID ARMSTRONG\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMad Pain and Martian Pain \u003cem\u003eDAVID LEWIS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArguments against Functionalism \u003cem\u003eJOHN R. SEARLE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION 6: Does God Exist?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Evidential Value of Religious Experience \u003cem\u003eD.E. TRUEBLOOD\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Five Ways \u003cem\u003eST. THOMAS AQUINAS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ontological Argument \u003cem\u003eNILS RAUHUT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cosmological Argument \u003cem\u003eRICHARD TAYLOR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Debate on the Cosmological Argument \u003cem\u003eF.C. COPELSTON \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eBERTRAND RUSSELL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMolecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference \u003cem\u003eMICHAEL J. BEHE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn-Again Creationism \u003cem\u003ePHILIP KITCHER\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePascal’s Wager \u003cem\u003eGEORGE SCHLESINGER\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Problem of Evil \u003cem\u003eB.C. 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