Philosophy: Basic Readings 2nd Ed.

Description:
Nigel Warburton brings philosophy to life with an imaginative selection of philosophical writings on key topics. Philosophy: Basic Readings is structured around the same key themes as its companion volume, Philosophy: The Basics , but is also ideal for independent use on any undergraduate introductory philosophy course. Philosophy: Basic Readings includes short and accessible sections from: * classic works of philosophy such as Descartes' Medititations and Hobbes' Leviathan * contemporary thinkers such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett * thought-provoking works by figures outside philosophy such as Jorge Luis Borges and Martin Luther King, Jr. The second edition has been revised and expanded to include nineteen new readings. The introductory chapter, What Is Philosophy?, has new selections from Thomas Nagel, Simon Blackburn, Edward Craig and Bryan Magee. Other new readings throughout the book include: * Jean-Paul Sartre on nature * Hubert Dreyfus on the Internet * Ronald Dworkin on censorship * Bernard Williams on immortality * Peter Singer on ethics.

Table of Contents:
Preface Preface to second edition Introduction: What is Philosophy? 1. Mary Warnock, 'What Makes someone a philosopher?' 2. D.H.Mellor, 'Analytic Philosophy' 3. A.J.Ayer, 'The Method of Philosophy' 4. Bertrand Russell, 'The value of philosophy'. 5. Thomas Nagel, 'What is Philosophy' 6. Edward Craig, 'Philosophy' 7. Barry Stroud, 'What Makes a Philosopher?' Section One: God 8. Blaise Pascal, 'The Wager' 9. Martin Gardner, 'Proofs of God' 10. J.L.Mackie, 'Evil and omnipotence' 11. Richard Swinburne, 'Why God allows evil' 12. David Hume, 'Of miracles' 13. Richard Dawkins, 'Viruses of the mind' 14. Bernard Williams, 'The Makropulos case: Refections on the tedium of immortality'. 15. Marquis de Sade, 'Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man' 16. Bertrand Russell, 'Do we survive death?' Section Two: Right and Wrong 17. Immanuel Kant, 'The Categorical Imperative' 18. Robert Nozick, 'The Experience Machine' 19. John Stuart Mill, 'Higher and lower pleasures' 20. Bernard Williams, 'A critique of utilitarianism' 21. Jonathan Glover, 'The Solzhenitsyn principle' 22. Rosalind Hursthouse, 'Neo-Aristotelianism' 23. Judith Jarvis Thomson, 'A defence of abortion' 24. Thomas Nagel, 'Moral Luck' 25. Bernard Williams, 'Relativism' 26. Stephen Law, 'What's wrong with gay sex?' 27. Sissela Bok, 'Paternalistic Lies' 28. Simon Blackburn, 'Desire and the Meaning of Life' 29. Peter Singer, 'Moral Experts.' Section Three: Politics 30. Jonathan Wolff, 'What is political philosophy?' 31. Thomas Hobbes, 'Of the natural condition of mankind' 32. Isaiah Berlin, 'Two concepts of liberty' 33. Nigel Warburton, 'Freedom to Box' 34. Janet Radcliffe Richards, 'Discrimination and sexual justice' 35. Martin Luther King Jr, 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' 36. Peter Singer, 'All animals are equal' 37. Ronald Dworkin, 'A New Map of Censorship' 38. Jonathan Wolff, 'Playthings of Alien Forces: Karl Marx and the Rejection of the Market Economy' Section Four: The external world 39. Rene Descartes, 'About the things we may doubt' 40. Bernard Williams and Bryan Magee, 'Descartes' 41. George Berkeley, 'Colours' 42. David Hume, 'Of the origin of ideas' 43. Alex Orenstein, 'Epistemology Naturalized-nature know thyself' 44. Hubert Dreyfus, 'Disembodied Telepresence and the Remoteness of the Real' 45. Jean-Paul Sartre, 'Existence and Absurdity' Section Five: Science 46. Karl Popper, 'The problem of demarcation' 47. Thomas Kuhn, 'Anomaly and the emergence of scientific discoveries' 48. Paul Feyerabend, 'How to defend society against science' 49. Alain Sokal and Jean Bricmont, 'Feyerabend: anything goes 50. Ray Monk, 'Wittgenstein and the Two Cultures' 51. Roger Scruton, 'The Lebenswelt' Section Six: Mind 52. Ludwig Wittgenstein, 'The diary' and 'The beetle in the box' 53. J.J.C.Smart, 'Sensations and brain processes' 54. John R. Searle, 'Minds, brains and programs' 55. Thomas Nagel, 'What is it like to be a bat? 56. Daniel C.Dennett, 'Wher