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Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology is a remarkably accessible and inviting introduction to philosophy. In this unique volume, Steven M. Cahn brings together extraordinarily clear recent essays by noted philosophers and supplements them with influential historical sources. Most importantly, the articles have been carefully edited to make them understandable to every reader. The topics are drawn from the major fields of philosophy and include knowledge and skepticism, freedom and determinism, mind and body, the existence of God, the problem of evil, faith and reason, cultural relativism, abortion, euthanasia, democracy, privacy, capital punishment, affirmative action, death, and the meaning of life. The collection also contains, in preeminent translations and with explanatory notes, the complete texts of Plato's Meno, Euthyphro, Defence of Socrates, and Crito as well as specially selected materials by Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Mill. Also provided are an introduction to logic and scientific method and guiding commentary by the editor. Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology is a landmark collection that enables all readers to appreciate for themselves the importance and fascination of philosophical inquiry.

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• =New to this edition
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• What Is Philosophy?Historical Source
• Defence of Socrates
• 2 Reasoning
• The Scope of Logic
• Improving Your Thinking
• Fixing Belief
• Testing Hypotheses
• Science and Common Sense
• 3 Knowledge
• Appearance and Reality
• What Can I Know?
• Knowledge and Belief
• The Problem of Induction
• Will the Future be Like the Past?
• Historical Sources
• MenoRene Descartes
• Meditations on First Philosophy
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• 4 Mind
• The Ghost in the Machine
• The Mind as a Function of the Body
• What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
• Do Computers Think?
• Free Will or Determinism?
• Free Will and Determinism
• Historical Source
• Meditations on First Philosophy
• 5 GOD
• Does God Exist?
• Why God Allows Evil
• Theology and Falsification
• Do Miracles Occur?
• Pascal's Wager
• The Hiddenness of God
• Historical Sources
• Euthyphro
• Summa Theologiae
• Meditations on First Philosophy
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• 6 Morality
• The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
• How Not to Answer Moral Questions
• The Nature of Ethical Disagreement
• A Supreme Moral Principle?
• Abortion
• Giving Birth
• Active and Passive Euthanasia
• Active and Passive Euthanasia
• A ReplyHistorical Sources
• Nicomachean Ethics
• Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
• Utilitarianism
• 7 Society
• Democracy
• Letter From a Birmingham Jail
• Political Action
• The Problem of Dirty Hands
• The Death Penalty
• Capital Punishment
• Two Concepts of Affirmative Action
• Are Quotas Sometimes Justified?
• What Is a Liberal Education?
• Historical Sources
• CritoJohn Stuart Mill
• On Liberty
• 8 Conclusion
• The Meaning of Life
• The Value of Philosophy
• Historical Source
• Phaedo
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Index

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Steven M.CahnProfessor of Philosophy, Graduate School and University CenterCity University of New York.