TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tittle,Peg
TI  - What if--: collected thought experiments in philosophy 
SN  - 0321202783
AV  - BD265 .T57 2005
U1  - ARCH YNDC 100 T622W 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pearson/Longman
KW  - Thought experiments
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 1; Metaphysics; 2 --; Space, Time, and Reality; 2 --; Zeno's Achilles; 2 --; Lucretius's Spear; 4 --; Berkeley's Impossibility of Conceiving the Unconceived; 6 --; Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence; 8 --; Strawson's No-Space World; 10 --; Quinton's Two-Space Myth; 12 --; Shoemaker's Time-Freezing World; 14 --; Free Will and Determinism; 16 --; Locke's Voluntary Prisoner; 16 --; James's Way Home; 18 --; Lyon's Card Predictor; 20 --; Goldman's Book of Life; 22 --; Frankfurt's Willing Addict; 24 --; Taylor's Ingenious Physiologist; 26 --; Philosophy of Religion; 28 --; Gaunilo's Lost Island; 28 --; Pascal's Wager; 30 --; Hume's Infant, Inferior, or Superannuated Deity; 32 --; Paley's Watch; 34 --; Wisdom's Long-Neglected Garden; 36 --; Hick's Resurrected People; 38 --; Hick's World with Flexible Laws of Nature; 40 --; Plantinga's Curley Smith and Transworld Depravity; 42 --; Rowe's Fawn; 44 --; 2; Philosophy of Mind; 46 --; Locke's Inverted Spectrum; 46 --; Leibniz's Machine; 48 --; Turing's Imitation Game; 50 --; Kirk and Squires's Zombies; 52 --; Nagel's Bat; 54 --; Block's Chinese Nation; 56 --; Rorty's Antipodeans; 58 --; Searle's Chinese Room; 60 --; Putnam's Brain in a Vat; 62 --; Jackson's Mary, the Brilliant Color Scientist; 64 --; Searle's Brain Replacement; 66 --; 3; Personal Identity; 68 --; Hobbes's Ship of Theseus; 68 --; Locke's Prince and Cobbler; 70 --; Reid's Brave Officer; 72 --; Leibniz's King of China; 74 --; Williams's Charles and Guy Fawkes -- and Robert; 76 --; Shoemaker's Brownson; 78 --; Williams's Body Exchange/Mind Swap; 80 --; Perry's Divided Self; 82 --; Price's E. coli John; 84 --; Parfit's Fission; 86 --; Parfit's Teletransporter; 88 --; 4; Philosophy of Language; 90 --; James's Squirrel; 90 --; Wittgenstein's Games; 92 --; Wittgenstein's "S"; 94 --; Ayer's Robinson Crusoe; 96 --; Quine's Gavagai; 98 --; Putnam's Twin Earth; 100 --; 5; Epistemology; 102 --; The Possibility of Knowledge; 102 --; Descartes's Evil Demon; 102 --; Russell's Five-Minute Hypothesis; 104 --; The Sources of Knowledge; 106 --; Plato's Equal Portions of Wood and Stone; 106 --; Descartes's Wax; 108 --; Molyneux's Blind Man; 110 --; Hume's Missing Shade of Blue; 112 --; Hume's Constant Conjunction; 114 --; Kant's A Priori Space; 116 --; Mill's Chaotic World; 118 --; The Conditions of Knowledge; 120 --; Gettier's Smith and Jones (and Brown in Barcelona); 120 --; Skyrms's Pyromaniac; 122 --; Harman's False Report; 124 --; Goldman's Fake Barns; 126 --; Bonjour's Clairvoyants; 128 --; Plantinga's Epistemically Inflexible Climber; 130 --; Lehrer's Mr. Truetemp; 132 --; 6; Logic; 134 --; The Liar Paradox; 134 --; The Barber Paradox; 136 --; Frege's Other-Thinking Beings; 138 --; The Surprise Quiz; 140 --; Black's Two Spheres; 142 --; Goodman's Grue; 144 --; 7; Ethics; 146 --; Ethical Theory; 146 --; Plato's Ring of Gyges; 146 --; Godwin's Fenelon; 148 --; Moore's Two Worlds; 150 --; Smart's Deluded Sadist; 152 --; Foot's Gas; 154 --; Brandt's Spelunkers; 156 --; Williams's Jim in South America; 158 --; Nozick's Experience Machine; 160 --; Feinberg's Egoist; 162 --; Jamieson and Regan's Chainsaw; 164 --; Jamieson and Regan's Terrorist Tank; 166 --; Thomson's Trolley Problem; 168 --; Thomson's Transplant Problem; 170 --; Donaldson's Equim; 172 --; Applied Ethics; 174 --; Thomson's Violinist; 174 --; Thomson's Growing Child in a Tiny House; 176 --; Thomson's People-seeds; 178 --; Tooley's Kitten; 180 --; Warren's Space Traveler; 182 --; Warren's Space Explorer; 184 --; Sylvan's Last People; 186 --; Rachels's Smith and Jones at the Bathtub; 188 --; Harris's Survival Lottery; 190 --; The Routleys' Nuclear Train; 192 --; Regan's Lifeboat; 194 --; Caste's Hedonine and Pononine; 196 --; Battin's Automatic Reversible Contraception; 198 --; 8; Social and Political Philosophy; 200 --; Locke's Acorns and Apples; 200 --; The Prisoner's Dilemma; 202 --; Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons; 204 --; Rawls's Veil of Ignorance; 206 --; Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain; 208 --; Hardin's Lifeboat; 210 --; O'Neill's Lifeboat; 212 --; Alexander's Doomsday Machine; 214 --; Marty's Two Shipwrecked Islanders; 216 --; Parfit's Nobelist; 218 --; Mills's Mr. Oreo; 220 --; 9; Aesthetics --; Dewey's Finely Wrought Object; 222 --; Ziff's Eccentric and Peculiar Objects; 224 --; Danto's Randomly Generated Object; 226 --; Moore's Glass Flowers; 228 --; Carroll's Loathe Letter; 230 --; Patton's Can Bad Men Make Good Brains Do Bad Things?; 232
N2  - 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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