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pcc |
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BD265 |
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.T57 2005 |
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ARCH YNDC 100 T622W |
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22 |
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Tittle, Peg, |
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1957- |
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| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
What if-- : |
| Remainder of title |
collected thought experiments in philosophy / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Peg Tittle |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
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Pearson/Longman, |
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©2005 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 243 pages ; |
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21 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Miscellaneous information |
1 |
| Title |
Metaphysics |
| Miscellaneous information |
2 -- |
| Title |
Space, Time, and Reality |
| Miscellaneous information |
2 -- |
| Title |
Zeno's Achilles |
| Miscellaneous information |
2 -- |
| Title |
Lucretius's Spear |
| Miscellaneous information |
4 -- |
| Title |
Berkeley's Impossibility of Conceiving the Unconceived |
| Miscellaneous information |
6 -- |
| Title |
Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence |
| Miscellaneous information |
8 -- |
| Title |
Strawson's No-Space World |
| Miscellaneous information |
10 -- |
| Title |
Quinton's Two-Space Myth |
| Miscellaneous information |
12 -- |
| Title |
Shoemaker's Time-Freezing World |
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14 -- |
| Title |
Free Will and Determinism |
| Miscellaneous information |
16 -- |
| Title |
Locke's Voluntary Prisoner |
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16 -- |
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James's Way Home |
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18 -- |
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Lyon's Card Predictor |
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20 -- |
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Goldman's Book of Life |
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22 -- |
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Frankfurt's Willing Addict |
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24 -- |
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Taylor's Ingenious Physiologist |
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26 -- |
| Title |
Philosophy of Religion |
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28 -- |
| Title |
Gaunilo's Lost Island |
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28 -- |
| Title |
Pascal's Wager |
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30 -- |
| Title |
Hume's Infant, Inferior, or Superannuated Deity |
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32 -- |
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Paley's Watch |
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34 -- |
| Title |
Wisdom's Long-Neglected Garden |
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36 -- |
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Hick's Resurrected People |
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38 -- |
| Title |
Hick's World with Flexible Laws of Nature |
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40 -- |
| Title |
Plantinga's Curley Smith and Transworld Depravity |
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42 -- |
| Title |
Rowe's Fawn |
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44 -- |
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2 |
| Title |
Philosophy of Mind |
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46 -- |
| Title |
Locke's Inverted Spectrum |
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46 -- |
| Title |
Leibniz's Machine |
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48 -- |
| Title |
Turing's Imitation Game |
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50 -- |
| Title |
Kirk and Squires's Zombies |
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52 -- |
| Title |
Nagel's Bat |
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54 -- |
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Block's Chinese Nation |
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56 -- |
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Rorty's Antipodeans |
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58 -- |
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Searle's Chinese Room |
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60 -- |
| Title |
Putnam's Brain in a Vat |
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62 -- |
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Jackson's Mary, the Brilliant Color Scientist |
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64 -- |
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Searle's Brain Replacement |
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66 -- |
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3 |
| Title |
Personal Identity |
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68 -- |
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Hobbes's Ship of Theseus |
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68 -- |
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Locke's Prince and Cobbler |
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70 -- |
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Reid's Brave Officer |
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72 -- |
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Leibniz's King of China |
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74 -- |
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Williams's Charles and Guy Fawkes -- and Robert |
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76 -- |
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Shoemaker's Brownson |
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78 -- |
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Williams's Body Exchange/Mind Swap |
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80 -- |
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Perry's Divided Self |
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82 -- |
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Price's E. coli John |
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84 -- |
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Parfit's Fission |
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86 -- |
| Title |
Parfit's Teletransporter |
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88 -- |
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4 |
| Title |
Philosophy of Language |
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90 -- |
| Title |
James's Squirrel |
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90 -- |
| Title |
Wittgenstein's Games |
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92 -- |
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Wittgenstein's "S" |
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94 -- |
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Ayer's Robinson Crusoe |
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96 -- |
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Quine's Gavagai |
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98 -- |
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Putnam's Twin Earth |
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100 -- |
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5 |
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Epistemology |
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102 -- |
| Title |
The Possibility of Knowledge |
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102 -- |
| Title |
Descartes's Evil Demon |
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102 -- |
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Russell's Five-Minute Hypothesis |
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104 -- |
| Title |
The Sources of Knowledge |
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106 -- |
| Title |
Plato's Equal Portions of Wood and Stone |
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106 -- |
| Title |
Descartes's Wax |
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108 -- |
| Title |
Molyneux's Blind Man |
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110 -- |
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Hume's Missing Shade of Blue |
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112 -- |
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Hume's Constant Conjunction |
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114 -- |
| Title |
Kant's A Priori Space |
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116 -- |
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Mill's Chaotic World |
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118 -- |
| Title |
The Conditions of Knowledge |
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120 -- |
| Title |
Gettier's Smith and Jones (and Brown in Barcelona) |
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120 -- |
| Title |
Skyrms's Pyromaniac |
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122 -- |
| Title |
Harman's False Report |
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124 -- |
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Goldman's Fake Barns |
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126 -- |
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Bonjour's Clairvoyants |
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128 -- |
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Plantinga's Epistemically Inflexible Climber |
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130 -- |
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Lehrer's Mr. Truetemp |
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132 -- |
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6 |
| Title |
Logic |
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134 -- |
| Title |
The Liar Paradox |
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134 -- |
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The Barber Paradox |
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136 -- |
| Title |
Frege's Other-Thinking Beings |
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138 -- |
| Title |
The Surprise Quiz |
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140 -- |
| Title |
Black's Two Spheres |
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142 -- |
| Title |
Goodman's Grue |
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144 -- |
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7 |
| Title |
Ethics |
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146 -- |
| Title |
Ethical Theory |
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146 -- |
| Title |
Plato's Ring of Gyges |
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146 -- |
| Title |
Godwin's Fenelon |
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148 -- |
| Title |
Moore's Two Worlds |
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150 -- |
| Title |
Smart's Deluded Sadist |
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152 -- |
| Title |
Foot's Gas |
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154 -- |
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Brandt's Spelunkers |
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156 -- |
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Williams's Jim in South America |
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158 -- |
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Nozick's Experience Machine |
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160 -- |
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Feinberg's Egoist |
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162 -- |
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Jamieson and Regan's Chainsaw |
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164 -- |
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Jamieson and Regan's Terrorist Tank |
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166 -- |
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Thomson's Trolley Problem |
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168 -- |
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Thomson's Transplant Problem |
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170 -- |
| Title |
Donaldson's Equim |
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172 -- |
| Title |
Applied Ethics |
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174 -- |
| Title |
Thomson's Violinist |
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174 -- |
| Title |
Thomson's Growing Child in a Tiny House |
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176 -- |
| Title |
Thomson's People-seeds |
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178 -- |
| Title |
Tooley's Kitten |
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180 -- |
| Title |
Warren's Space Traveler |
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182 -- |
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Warren's Space Explorer |
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184 -- |
| Title |
Sylvan's Last People |
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186 -- |
| Title |
Rachels's Smith and Jones at the Bathtub |
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188 -- |
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Harris's Survival Lottery |
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190 -- |
| Title |
The Routleys' Nuclear Train |
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192 -- |
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Regan's Lifeboat |
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194 -- |
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Caste's Hedonine and Pononine |
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196 -- |
| Title |
Battin's Automatic Reversible Contraception |
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198 -- |
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8 |
| Title |
Social and Political Philosophy |
| Miscellaneous information |
200 -- |
| Title |
Locke's Acorns and Apples |
| Miscellaneous information |
200 -- |
| Title |
The Prisoner's Dilemma |
| Miscellaneous information |
202 -- |
| Title |
Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons |
| Miscellaneous information |
204 -- |
| Title |
Rawls's Veil of Ignorance |
| Miscellaneous information |
206 -- |
| Title |
Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain |
| Miscellaneous information |
208 -- |
| Title |
Hardin's Lifeboat |
| Miscellaneous information |
210 -- |
| Title |
O'Neill's Lifeboat |
| Miscellaneous information |
212 -- |
| Title |
Alexander's Doomsday Machine |
| Miscellaneous information |
214 -- |
| Title |
Marty's Two Shipwrecked Islanders |
| Miscellaneous information |
216 -- |
| Title |
Parfit's Nobelist |
| Miscellaneous information |
218 -- |
| Title |
Mills's Mr. Oreo |
| Miscellaneous information |
220 -- |
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9 |
| Title |
Aesthetics -- |
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Dewey's Finely Wrought Object |
| Miscellaneous information |
222 -- |
| Title |
Ziff's Eccentric and Peculiar Objects |
| Miscellaneous information |
224 -- |
| Title |
Danto's Randomly Generated Object |
| Miscellaneous information |
226 -- |
| Title |
Moore's Glass Flowers |
| Miscellaneous information |
228 -- |
| Title |
Carroll's Loathe Letter |
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230 -- |
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Patton's Can Bad Men Make Good Brains Do Bad Things? |
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232 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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This brief ... collection features over 100 classic and contemporary "thought experiments" that explore philosophical arguments to awaken students' intellectual curiosity and introduce them to the kind of disciplined thought required in philosophy. Each thought experiment [is] accompanied by the author's short commentary and followed by several ... questions. Featuring a ... conversational writing style that doesn't dilute the ideas, the value of this book is in its simplicity - in both format and tone. An ideal supplement, this brief book can be used in a variety of courses, including Introduction to Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Introduction to Ethics, and Applied Ethics.-Back cover |
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Thought experiments |
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Archives |
