:100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy
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/ edited by Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone
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, 2011.
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xiii, 409 p.
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Aquinas' five ways / Timothy J. Pawl.- The contingency cosmological argument / Mark T. Nelson.- The Kalam argument for the existence of God / Harry Lesser.- The ontological argument / Sara L. Uckelman.- Pascal's wager / Leslie Burkholder.- James' will to believe argument / A.T. Fyfe.- The problem of evil / Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone.- The free will defense to the problem of evil / Grant Sterling.- St. Anselm on free choice and the power to sin / Julia Hermann.- Hume's argument against miracles / Tommaso Piazza.- The Euthyphro dilemma / David Baggett.- Nietzche's death of God / Tom Grimwood.- Ockham's razor / Grant Sterling.- Parmenides' refutation of change / Adrian Bardon.- McTaggart's argument against the reality of time / M. Joshua Mozersky.- Berkeley's master argument for idealism / John M. DePoe.- Kant's refutation of idealism / Adrian Bardon.- The master argument of Diodorus Cronus / Ludger Jansen.- Lewis' argument for possible worlds / David Vander Laan.- A reductionist account of personal identity / Fauve Lybaert.- Split-case arguments about personal identity / Ludger Jansen.- The ship of Theseus / Ludger Jansen.- The problem of temporary intrinsics / Montserrat Bordes.- A modern modal argument for the soul / Rafal Urbaniak and Agnieszka Rostalska.- Epicurus' death is nothing to us argument / Steven Luper.- Lucretius' symmetry argument / Nicolas Bommarito.- The existence of forms : Plato's argument from the possibility of knowledge / Jurgis (George) Brakas.- Plato, Aristotle, and the third man argument / Jurgis (George) Brakas.- Logical monism / Luis Estrada-Gonzaalez.- The maximality paradox / Nicola Ciprotti.- An argument for free will / Gerald Harrison.- Frankfurt's refutation of the principle of alternative possibilities / Gerald Harrison.- Van Inwagen's consequence argument against compatibilism / Grant Sterling.- Fatalism / Fernando Migura and Agustin Arrieta.- Sartre's argument for freedom / Jeffrey Gordon.- Descartes' Cogito / Joyce Lazier.- Augustine's "Si fallor, sum" argument (if I am mistaken, I exist) / Brett Gaul.- The Cartesian dreaming argument for external-world skepticism / Stephen Hetherington.- The transparency of experience argument / Carlos Mario Muonoz-Suaarez.- The regress argument for skepticism / Scott Aikin.- Moore's anti-skeptical arguments / Matthew Frise -- The bias paradox / Deborah Heikes.- Gettier's argument against the traditional account of knowledge / John M. DePoe.- Putnam's argument against cultural imperialism / Maria Caamaono.- Davidson on the very idea of a conceptual scheme / George Wrisley.- Quine's two dogmas of empiricism / Robert Sinclair.- Hume's problem of induction / James E. Taylor.- Hume's negative argument concerning induction / Stefanie Rocknak.- Argument by analogy in Thales and Anaximenes / Giannis Stamatellos.- Quine's epistemology naturalized / Robert Sinclair.- Sellars and the myth of the given / Willem A. deVries.- Sellars' "Rylean myth" / Willem A. deVries.- Aristotle and the argument to end all arguments / Toni Vogel Carey.- Justice brings happiness in Plato's Republic / Joshua I. Weinstein.- Aristotle's function argument / Sean McAleer.- Aristotle's argument that goods are irreducible / Jurgis (George) Brakas.- Aristotle's argument for perfectionism / Eric J. Silverman.- Categorical imperative as the source for morality / Joyce Lazier.- Kant on why autonomy deserves respect / Mark Piper.- Mill's proof of utilitarianism / A.T. Fyfe.- The experience machine objection to hedonism / Dan Weijers.- The error theory argument / Robert L. Muhlnickel.- Moore's open question argument / Bruno Verbeek.- Wolff's argument for the rejection of state authority / Ben Saunders.- Nozick's taxation is forced labor argument / Jason Waller.- Charity is obligatory / Joakim Sandberg.- The repugnant conclusion / Joakim Sandberg.- Taurek on numbers don't count / Ben Saunders.- Parfit's leveling down argument against egalitarianism / Ben Saunders.- Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain argument / Fabian Wendt.- Liberal feminism / Julinna C. Oxley.- Moral status of animals from marginal cases / Julia Tanner.- The ethical vegetarianism argument / Robert L. Muhlnickel.- Thomson and the famous violinist / Leslie Burkholder.- Marquis and the immorality of abortion / Leslie Burkholder.- Tooley on abortion and infanticide / Ben Saunders.- Rachels on euthanasia / Leslie Burkholder.- Leibniz' argument for innate ideas / Byron Kaldis.- Descartes' arguments for the mind-body distinction / Dale Jacquette.- Princess Elisabeth and the mind-body problem / Jen McWeeny.- Kripke's argument for mind-body property dualism / Dale Jacquette.- The argument from mental causation for physicalism / Amir Horowitz.- Davidson's argument for anomalous monism / Amir Horowitz.- Putnam's multiple realization argument against type-physicalism / Amir Horowitz.- The supervenience argument against non-reductive physicalism / Andrew Russo.- Ryle's argument against Cartesian internalism / Agustin Arrieta and Fernando Migura.- Jackson's knowledge argument / Amir Horowitz.- Nagel's "what is it like to be a bat" argument against physicalism / Amy Kind.- Chalmer's zombie argument / Amy Kind.- The argument from revelation / Carlos Mario Muonoz-Suaarez.- Searle and the Chinese room argument / Leslie Burkholder.- Sir Karl Popper's demarcation argument / Liz Stillwaggon Swan.- Kuhn's incommensurability arguments / Liz Stillwaggon Swan and Michael Bruce.- Putnam's no miracles argument / Liz Stillwaggon Swan.- Galileo's falling bodies / Liz Stillwaggon Swan.- Eliminative materialism / Charlotte Blease.- Wittgenstein's private language argument / George Wrisley.- Fodor's argument for linguistic nativism / Majid Amini.- Fodor and the impossibility of learning / Majid Amini.- Quine on the indeterminacy of translation / Robert Sinclair.- Davidson's argument for the principle of charity / Maria Caamaono.- Frege's argument for Platonism / Ivan Kasa.- Mathematical Platonism / Nicolas Pain