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Author:   Steven D. Hales (Bloomsburg University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781119635536

ISBN 10:   1119635535
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   22 April 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface for Instructors x Preface for Students xiv Acknowledgments xvi 1 Ethics: Preliminary Views 1 1.1 Is Morality Just Acting on Principles? 3 1.2 Divine Command Theory (Is Morality Just What God Tells Me to Do?) 6 1.3 Egoism (Is Morality Just My Own Personal Code?) 10 1.4 Moral Relativism (Is Morality Just How Society Says We Should Act?) 18 2 Ethics: The Big Three Theories 27 2.1 Utilitarianism (Is Morality Doing What I Can to Make This the Best World Possible?) 27 2.2 Deontology, or Kantianism (Is There an Absolute Moral Law?) 42 2.3 Objections 48 2.4 Virtue Ethics (Is Morality all about Having a Virtuous Character?) 52 2.5 Objections 54 3 God 62 3.1 The Attributes of God 64 3.2 Why There is a God 66 3.3 Why There is No God 93 3.4 Atheist Responses to the Free Will Defense 102 4 Freedom 111 4.1 Against Free Will, Part 1: Divine Foreknowledge 114 4.2 Against Free Will, Part 2: A Regress of Reasons for Acting 117 4.3 Against Free Will, Part 3: Determinism and the Dilemma Argument 123 4.4 The Incompatibilist Argument 126 4.5 The Dilemma Argument Against Free Will 129 4.6 Free Will and Moral Responsibility 129 4.7 Agent Causation 133 4.8 Compatibilism 135 4.9 The Feeling of Freedom 139 5 Self 145 5.1 Preliminary Positions 147 5.2 The Soul Criterion 149 5.3 Objections 151 5.4 The Physicalist Criterion 156 5.5 The Psychological Criterion 163 5.6 The Bundle Theory 173 6 Mind 183 6.1 Substance Dualism 184 6.2 Behaviorism 192 6.3 Mind-brain Identity Theory 196 6.4 Functionalism 202 7 Knowledge 215 7.1 The Value of Truth 215 7.2 The Value of Evidence 219 7.3 The Sources of Evidence 230 7.4 The Nature of Knowledge 233 7.5 The Skeptic’s Challenge 236 8 Politics 254 8.1 State of Nature 255 8.2 Anarchy 257 8.3 Contractarianism 260 8.4 Leviathan and the Philosopher Kings 266 8.5 The Minimal State 272 8.6 The Liberal State 276 Postscript 284 Index 286

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STEVEN D. HALES is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He works primarily in metaphysics and epistemology, and has published in Mind, Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and other journals. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Cambridge, Turin, Edinburgh, and London, and has won awards for both teaching and research. He has written or edited 12 books, most recently The Myth of Luck: Philosophy, Fate and Fortune (2020).

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