Description |
xii, 243 p. ; 21 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
1 Metaphysics 2 -- Space, Time, and Reality 2 -- Zeno's Achilles 2 -- Lucretius's Spear 4 -- Berkeley's Impossibility of Conceiving the Unconceived 6 -- Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence 8 -- Strawson's No-Space World 10 -- Quinton's Two-Space Myth 12 -- Shoemaker's Time-Freezing World 14 -- Free Will and Determinism 16 -- Locke's Voluntary Prisoner 16 -- James's Way Home 18 -- Lyon's Card Predictor 20 -- Goldman's Book of Life 22 -- Frankfurt's Willing Addict 24 -- Taylor's Ingenious Physiologist 26 -- Philosophy of Religion 28 -- Gaunilo's Lost Island 28 -- Pascal's Wager 30 -- Hume's Infant, Inferior, or Superannuated Deity 32 -- Paley's Watch 34 -- Wisdom's Long-Neglected Garden 36 -- Hick's Resurrected People 38 -- Hick's World with Flexible Laws of Nature 40 -- Plantinga's Curley Smith and Transworld Depravity 42 -- Rowe's Fawn 44 -- 2 Philosophy of Mind 46 -- Locke's Inverted Spectrum 46 -- Leibniz's Machine 48 -- Turing's Imitation Game 50 -- Kirk and Squires's Zombies 52 -- Nagel's Bat 54 -- Block's Chinese Nation 56 -- Rorty's Antipodeans 58 -- Searle's Chinese Room 60 -- Putnam's Brain in a Vat 62 -- Jackson's Mary, the Brilliant Color Scientist 64 -- Searle's Brain Replacement 66 -- 3 Personal Identity 68 -- Hobbes's Ship of Theseus 68 -- Locke's Prince and Cobbler 70 -- Reid's Brave Officer 72 -- Leibniz's King of China 74 -- Williams's Charles and Guy Fawkes -- and Robert 76 -- Shoemaker's Brownson 78 -- Williams's Body Exchange/Mind Swap 80 -- Perry's Divided Self 82 -- Price's E. coli John 84 -- Parfit's Fission 86 -- Parfit's Teletransporter 88 -- 4 Philosophy of Language 90 -- James's Squirrel 90 -- Wittgenstein's Games 92 -- Wittgenstein's "S" 94 -- Ayer's Robinson Crusoe 96 -- Quine's Gavagai 98 -- Putnam's Twin Earth 100 -- 5 Epistemology 102 -- The Possibility of Knowledge 102 -- Descartes's Evil Demon 102 -- Russell's Five-Minute Hypothesis 104 -- The Sources of Knowledge 106 -- Plato's Equal Portions of Wood and Stone 106 -- Descartes's Wax 108 -- Molyneux's Blind Man 110 -- Hume's Missing Shade of Blue 112 -- Hume's Constant Conjunction 114 -- Kant's A Priori Space 116 -- Mill's Chaotic World 118 -- The Conditions of Knowledge 120 -- Gettier's Smith and Jones (and Brown in Barcelona) 120 -- Skyrms's Pyromaniac 122 -- Harman's False Report 124 -- Goldman's Fake Barns 126 -- Bonjour's Clairvoyants 128 -- Plantinga's Epistemically Inflexible Climber 130 -- Lehrer's Mr. Truetemp 132 -- 6 Logic 134 -- The Liar Paradox 134 -- The Barber Paradox 136 -- Frege's Other-Thinking Beings 138 -- The Surprise Quiz 140 -- Black's Two Spheres 142 -- Goodman's Grue 144 -- 7 Ethics 146 -- Ethical Theory 146 -- Plato's Ring of Gyges 146 -- Godwin's Fenelon 148 -- Moore's Two Worlds 150 -- Smart's Deluded Sadist 152 -- Foot's Gas 154 -- Brandt's Spelunkers 156 -- Williams's Jim in South America 158 -- Nozick's Experience Machine 160 -- Feinberg's Egoist 162 -- Jamieson and Regan's Chainsaw 164 -- Jamieson and Regan's Terrorist Tank 166 -- Thomson's Trolley Problem 168 -- Thomson's Transplant Problem 170 -- Donaldson's Equim 172 -- Applied Ethics 174 -- Thomson's Violinist 174 -- Thomson's Growing Child in a Tiny House 176 -- Thomson's People-seeds 178 -- Tooley's Kitten 180 -- Warren's Space Traveler 182 -- Warren's Space Explorer 184 -- Sylvan's Last People 186 -- Rachels's Smith and Jones at the Bathtub 188 -- Harris's Survival Lottery 190 -- The Routleys' Nuclear Train 192 -- Regan's Lifeboat 194 -- Caste's Hedonine and Pononine 196 -- Battin's Automatic Reversible Contraception 198 -- 8 Social and Political Philosophy 200 -- Locke's Acorns and Apples 200 -- The Prisoner's Dilemma 202 -- Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons 204 -- Rawls's Veil of Ignorance 206 -- Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain 208 -- Hardin's Lifeboat 210 -- O'Neill's Lifeboat 212 -- Alexander's Doomsday Machine 214 -- Marty's Two Shipwrecked Islanders 216 -- Parfit's Nobelist 218 -- Mills's Mr. Oreo 220 -- 9 Aesthetics -- Dewey's Finely Wrought Object 222 -- Ziff's Eccentric and Peculiar Objects 224 -- Danto's Randomly Generated Object 226 -- Moore's Glass Flowers 228 -- Carroll's Loathe Letter 230 -- Patton's Can Bad Men Make Good Brains Do Bad Things? 232. |
Subject |
Thought experiments.
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ISBN |
9780321202789 |
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