A modern introduction to philosophy : readings from classical and contemporary sources /
edited by Paul Edwards and Arthur Pap.
- New York : Free Press of Glencoe, c1957..
- ix, 648 p. ; hbk ; 24 cm.
- The Free Press Textbooks in Philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1 : A Priori Knowledge.
Introduction / Arthur Pap -- Knowledge as recollection / Plato -- Introduction to the "Critique of Pure Reason" / Immanuel Kant -- Mathematics and experience / John Stuart Mill -- Empiricism and necessity / Brand Branshard -- The A Priori / A.J. Ayer -- Logical positivism and necessity / Brand Branshard. Part 2 : Scepticism and the problem of induction.
Introduction / Arthur Pap -- The sphere of the doubtful / Rene Decartes -- Sceptical doubts concerning the human understanding / David Hume -- The ground of induction / John Stuart Mill -- On induction / Bertrand Russell -- Will the future be like the past? / F.L. Will. Part 3 : Perception and the physical world.
Introduction / Arthur Pap -- Sense qualities and material substances / John Locke -- The first dialogue between Hylas and Philonous / George Berkeley -- The refutation of realism / W.T. Stace -- Physics and perception / Bertrand Russell -- Phenomenalism / C.H. Whitley. Part 4 : Body, mind and death.
Introduction / Paul Edwards -- The automaton theory / T.H. Huxley -- The traditional problem of body and mind / C.D. Broad -- Ten reasons for believing in immortality / John Haynes Holmes -- Is life after death possible? / C.J. Ducasse -- On the immortality of the soul / David Hume. Part 5 : Determinism, freedom and moral responsibility.
Introduction / Paul Edwards -- The illusion of free will / Baron Holbach -- The dilemma of determinism / William James -- Of liberty and necessity / John Stuart Mill -- When is a man responsible? / Moritz Schlick -- "Preperception" and freedom / C.J. Ducasse -- Is "free will" a pseudo-problem? / David Hume. Part 6 : Moral judgements.
Introduction / Paul Edwards -- Science and ethics / Bertrand Russell -- The objectivity of moral judgements / A.C. Ewing -- The indefinability of good / G.E. Moore -- Critique of ethics / A.J. Ayer -- The nature of ethical disagreement / C.L. Stevenson -- The new subjectivism in ethics / Brand Blanshard. Part 7 : The existence of God.
Introduction / Paul Edwards -- Of God : that He exists / Rene Descartes -- The five ways / Thomas Aquinas -- Commentary on "The Five Ways" of Aquinas / F.C. Coppleston -- The watch and the human eye / William Paley -- The existence of God / J.C.C. Smart -- The delusion of design and purpose / Clarence Darrow -- Evil and the argument from design / David Hume -- Empiricism versus theology / Herbert Feigl. Part 8 : Meaning, verification and metaphysics.
Introduction / Arthur Pap -- Of the origin of ideas / David Hume -- Demonstration of the impossibility of metaphysics / A.J. Ayer -- Metaphysics and meaning / W.T. Stace -- Meaningless / A.C Ewing -- Logical positivism - a debate / A.J. Ayer and F.C Coppleston..