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Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to Philosophy with PowerWeb: Philosophy by Dean Kowalski

This new text/reader is the first major introduction to philosophy that incorporates movies as a key pedagogical element. Throughout the text, summaries of and references to current and classic films engage students, revealing what they already know and addressing issues that they find relevant. The book highlights the major topics within philosophy and includes the core readings that represent them; instructors with various pedagogical approaches will find Classic Questions and Contemporary Film inviting and accessible.

PrefaceCHAPTER 1: PHILOSOPHY, PHILOSOPHERS AND ARGUMENTS: What Is Philosophy?1.1 IntroductionHow Does One Do PhilosophyHow Do We Proceed1.2 Deductive ArgumentationWhat Are Some Common Deductive Arguments?How Are Deductive Arguments Evaluated? Doesn't the Content of the Argument Matter?1.3 Logic Exercises I: Deductive Arguments1.4 Nondeductive ArgumentationHow Do Inductive Arguments Compare with Deductive Arguments?What Are Some Common Inductive Argument Forms? How Does Abduction Differ from Induction?1.5 Logic Exercises II: Inductive Arguments1.6 Philosophical Analysis and ObjectivityHow Can We Determine Whether Philosophy Is Subjective?But Isn't It Just Obvious That Philosophy Is Subjective?Is the Law of Noncontradiction an Objective Philosophical Truth?1.7 Readings and Movies (and Further Exercises)Exercise A: Extracting and Recasting Arguments Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)Plato: The ApologyExercise B: Extracting and Assessing Socratic Arguments Bertrand Russell: The Value of PhilosophyExercise C: Extracting and Recasting a "Russellian" Argument 1.8 Synthesis and Self-Analysis1.9 Additional NarrativesCHAPTER 2: EPISTEMOLOGY AND SKEPTICISM: What Can We Know?The Matrix (1999)2.1 A Definition of KnowledgeWhat Is Epistemology?What Is Required for Propositional Knowledge? 2.2 Justification, Perception, and the Problem of KnowledgeWhat Is the Problem with Being "Completely Justified"?Are Our Senses Adequate Sources for Knowledge? 2.3 The Importance of Studying EpistemologyWhy Should Anyone Care About Any of This?What Do Philosophers Think about Knowledge and Certainty? 2.4 Readings and MoviesPlato: A Study of Knowledge: The TheaetetusChuang Tzu: Butterflies, Sextus Empiricus: The Criterion Problem, Rene Descartes: Meditations I, II and VI12 Angry Men (1957)John Hospers: An Argument against Skepticism Jack S. Crumley II: Responding to the SkepticLorraine Code: Gender and Knowledge2.5 Synthesis and Self-Analysis 2.6 Alternative NarrativesCHAPTER 3: GOD, CREATION, AND EVIL: Does God Exist?Bruce Almighty (2003)3.1 Philosophy and ReligionHow Does One Do Philosophy about Religion? Can We Know Anything about God? 3.2 Ineffability and the Divine NatureWhat If the Ineffability Thesis Were True? What Can We Know about God?How Do We Know God?What Is God Like? Must We Refer to God as "He" or "Him"? 3.3 The Ontological ArgumentIs it Impossible for God Not to Exist? Are There Any Ontological Argument Detractors? 3.4 The Cosmological ArgumentIs the Universe Evidence of God's Existence? How Does Aquinas Argue for God's Existence? Can Aquinas Appeal to PSR Versions?Must the First Cause Be God? 3.5 The Design ArgumentDoes Nature Provide Evidence of a Designer? Is the Design Argument Successful? How Is Darwinian Evolution Relevant to the Design Argument? Has the Design Argument Been Defeated? 3.6 The Problem of EvilIs the Argument from Evil Sound? How Do Theists Respond to the Problem of Evil? What Kind of Theodicies Are There? What Is the Inductive Problem of Evil? 3.7 Readings and MoviesAnselm and Gaunilo: The Greatest Possible BeingThomas Aquinas: The First Three WaysWilliam Paley: The Argument from Design Inherit the Wind (1960)Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species Schindler's List (1993)John Hick: The Irenaean TheodicySoren Kierkegaard: The Unknowability of God and the Leap of Faith3.8 Synthesis and Self-Analysis3.9 Alternative Narratives CHAPTER 4: MIND, BODY AND CONSCIOUSNESS: What Kind of Thinking Thing Are We?Being John Malkovich (1999)4.1The Mind-Body ProblemWhat Does This Have to Do with the Mind-Body Problem? Can Science Help Solve the Problem? What Are the Options? 4.2 Leibniz's Law4.3 Substance DualismWhat Are Descartes's Arguments for Dualism? How Does the Argument from Doubt Fail? What about Descartes's Divisibility Argument? What Is Interactionism?Is Interactionism Intelligible? 4.4 Eliminative MaterialismWhat Is the Case for Materialism? What Is the Case for Eliminativism Materialism? Is Eliminative Materialism a Plausible Theory? 4.5 Reductive MaterialismSo Why Not Reduce the Mental Without Eliminating It? What Is the Case Against Reductive Materialism? What Are Mental Events, and Why Are They Important? What Do the Data Tell Us About the "Insideness" of Our Experiences? 4.6 FunctionalismWhat Are Functional Concepts?But Isn't This Behaviorism Again? Can Machines Be Persons?Where Does This Leave Us? 4.7 Readings and MoviesJeffrey Olen: Reductive Materialism Bicentennial Man (1999)William Lycan: Robots and Minds John Searle: The Myth of the Computer Dean A. Kowalski: Some Cartesian Rejoinders 4.8 Synthesis and Self-Analysis4.9 Additional NarrativesCHAPTER 5: FREEDOM, DETERMINISM, AND FOREKNOWLEDGE: Are We Free to Choose?The Matrix Reloaded (2003)5.1 Fate and DeterminismAre We Ever Free to Choose? "Do You Believe in Fate, Neo?" Does Everything Have a Cause?How Should We Address the Problem?5.2 CompatibilismWhat Does It Mean to Act Freely? Why Isn't Everyone a Compatibilist? 5.3 The Dilemma of Human FreedomSo Now What?Must We Give Up Our Beliefs in Freedom and Responsibility? What Are the Options Again?5.4 LibertarianismIs Agent Theory Defensible?How Do We Explain the Uniqueness of Agents? 5.5 The Threat of Theological DeterminismWhat Are Divine Perfections?Can the Freedom-and-Foreknowledge Problem Be Solved? 5.6 Readings and MoviesBaron d'Holbach: Determinism Is Incompatible with FreedomWalter T. Stace: Freedom Is Compatible with DeterminismRun, Lola, Run (1998)Roderick Chisholm: Human Freedom and the Self Minority Report (2002)Dean A. Kowalski: Reconciling Freedom and Foreknowledge 5.7 Synthesis and Self-Analysis5.8 Additional NarrativesCHAPTER 6: FOUNDATIONS OF ETHICS: Is Ethics Objective?Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)6.1 Subjectivity and Objectivity in EthicsWhat Are Ethical Foundations? Is Ethics Objective? How Is Ethics Subjectively True? 6.2 Three Conventionalist Theories about EthicsWhat Is the Case for Simple Ethical Subjectivism?What Is the Case against Simple Ethical Subjectivism?What Is the Case for Moral Relativism?What Is the Case against Moral Relativism?What Is the Case for Divine Command Theory?What Is the Case against Divine Command Theory?6.3 Reconsidering Objectivity in EthicsWhat Is the Relationship between Science, Objectivity, and EthicsAre There Ethically Significant "Truths of Reason"?Are There Other Ways to Justify Objectivity in Ethics?6.4 Readings and MoviesDavid Hume: Ethics as Sentiment The Joy Luck Club (1993)William Graham Sumner: Folkways, Ethnocentrism, and Cultural Relativism Plato: The Euthyphro 6.5 Synthesis and Self-Analysis6.6 Alternative NarrativesCHAPTER 7: ETHICS AND MORAL THEORY: What Ought I Do?Life Is Beautiful (1998)7.1 Ethics and "Oughts"What Are Mores? Are All "Ought Statements" Ethical? 7.2 Moral ReasoningCan Morality Be Equated with Legality? Must We Study Philosophy to Think Ethically? What Is So Important about Ethics?Why Should We Do the Right Thing?7.3 The Basics of Moral TheoryWhat Is a Moral Theory? What Are Some Examples of a Moral Theory? 7.4 Readings and MoviesPlato: Gyges and the Ring Groundhog Day (1993)Aristotle: Virtue EthicsExtreme Measures (1996)John Stuart Mill: UtilitarianismImmanuel Kant: Respect-for-Persons Ethic Friedrich Nietzsche: Master and Slave Morality Nel Noddings: The Ethics of Caring 7.5 Synthesis and Self-Analysis7.6 Additional Narratives CHAPTER 8: HUMAN NATURE, SOCIETY, AND JUSTICE: What Is the Nature of a Just State?Lord of the Flies (1990)8.1 Hobbes, Locke, and Social Contract TheoryWhy Do We Need Government at All?How Do We Avoid a Hobbesian State of Nature?Aren't Hobbes's Views Rather Extreme?Isn't Democracy More Plausible? 8.2 King, Socrates, and Civil DisobedienceWhat Morally Justified the Civil Rights Movement?What Is the Relationship Between King and Locke?Is it Ever Permissible to Break the Law?Should We Follow King or Socrates?Shouldn't We Practice Civil Disobedience Only as a Last Resort? 8.3 Marginalized VoicesWho Was Malcolm X?What about the Plight of Women in Society? Has the Plight of Minorities Improved?8.4 Readings and MoviesThomas Hobbes: Tyranny Before Anarchy and WarJohn Locke: A Democratic View of GovernmentMartin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from the Birmingham City Jail Malcolm X (1992)Malcolm X: The Harvard SpeechesMona Lisa Smile (2003)Mary Wollstonecraft: The Vindication of Women's Rights8.5 Synthesis and Analysis8.6 Additional NarrativesNotesCreditsIndex

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Classic Questions and Contemporary Film: An Introduction to Philosophy with PowerWeb: Philosophy by Dean Kowalski

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