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008			040205s2005 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aBD265 _b.T57 2005
082	0	0	_aARCH YNDC 100 T622W _222
100	1		_aTittle, Peg, _d1957- _916834
245	1	0	_aWhat if-- : _bcollected thought experiments in philosophy / _cPeg Tittle
260			_aNew York : _bPearson/Longman, _c©2005
300			_axii, 243 pages ; _c21 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes
505	0	0	_g1 _tMetaphysics _g2 -- _tSpace, Time, and Reality _g2 -- _tZeno's Achilles _g2 -- _tLucretius's Spear _g4 -- _tBerkeley's Impossibility of Conceiving the Unconceived _g6 -- _tNietzsche's Eternal Recurrence _g8 -- _tStrawson's No-Space World _g10 -- _tQuinton's Two-Space Myth _g12 -- _tShoemaker's Time-Freezing World _g14 -- _tFree Will and Determinism _g16 -- _tLocke's Voluntary Prisoner _g16 -- _tJames's Way Home _g18 -- _tLyon's Card Predictor _g20 -- _tGoldman's Book of Life _g22 -- _tFrankfurt's Willing Addict _g24 -- _tTaylor's Ingenious Physiologist _g26 -- _tPhilosophy of Religion _g28 -- _tGaunilo's Lost Island _g28 -- _tPascal's Wager _g30 -- _tHume's Infant, Inferior, or Superannuated Deity _g32 -- _tPaley's Watch _g34 -- _tWisdom's Long-Neglected Garden _g36 -- _tHick's Resurrected People _g38 -- _tHick's World with Flexible Laws of Nature _g40 -- _tPlantinga's Curley Smith and Transworld Depravity _g42 -- _tRowe's Fawn _g44 -- _g2 _tPhilosophy of Mind _g46 -- _tLocke's Inverted Spectrum _g46 -- _tLeibniz's Machine _g48 -- _tTuring's Imitation Game _g50 -- _tKirk and Squires's Zombies _g52 -- _tNagel's Bat _g54 -- _tBlock's Chinese Nation _g56 -- _tRorty's Antipodeans _g58 -- _tSearle's Chinese Room _g60 -- _tPutnam's Brain in a Vat _g62 -- _tJackson's Mary, the Brilliant Color Scientist _g64 -- _tSearle's Brain Replacement _g66 -- _g3 _tPersonal Identity _g68 -- _tHobbes's Ship of Theseus _g68 -- _tLocke's Prince and Cobbler _g70 -- _tReid's Brave Officer _g72 -- _tLeibniz's King of China _g74 -- _tWilliams's Charles and Guy Fawkes -- and Robert _g76 -- _tShoemaker's Brownson _g78 -- _tWilliams's Body Exchange/Mind Swap _g80 -- _tPerry's Divided Self _g82 -- _tPrice's E. coli John _g84 -- _tParfit's Fission _g86 -- _tParfit's Teletransporter _g88 -- _g4 _tPhilosophy of Language _g90 -- _tJames's Squirrel _g90 -- _tWittgenstein's Games _g92 -- _tWittgenstein's "S" _g94 -- _tAyer's Robinson Crusoe _g96 -- _tQuine's Gavagai _g98 -- _tPutnam's Twin Earth _g100 -- _g5 _tEpistemology _g102 -- _tThe Possibility of Knowledge _g102 -- _tDescartes's Evil Demon _g102 -- _tRussell's Five-Minute Hypothesis _g104 -- _tThe Sources of Knowledge _g106 -- _tPlato's Equal Portions of Wood and Stone _g106 -- _tDescartes's Wax _g108 -- _tMolyneux's Blind Man _g110 -- _tHume's Missing Shade of Blue _g112 -- _tHume's Constant Conjunction _g114 -- _tKant's A Priori Space _g116 -- _tMill's Chaotic World _g118 -- _tThe Conditions of Knowledge _g120 -- _tGettier's Smith and Jones (and Brown in Barcelona) _g120 -- _tSkyrms's Pyromaniac _g122 -- _tHarman's False Report _g124 -- _tGoldman's Fake Barns _g126 -- _tBonjour's Clairvoyants _g128 -- _tPlantinga's Epistemically Inflexible Climber _g130 -- _tLehrer's Mr. Truetemp _g132 -- _g6 _tLogic _g134 -- _tThe Liar Paradox _g134 -- _tThe Barber Paradox _g136 -- _tFrege's Other-Thinking Beings _g138 -- _tThe Surprise Quiz _g140 -- _tBlack's Two Spheres _g142 -- _tGoodman's Grue _g144 -- _g7 _tEthics _g146 -- _tEthical Theory _g146 -- _tPlato's Ring of Gyges _g146 -- _tGodwin's Fenelon _g148 -- _tMoore's Two Worlds _g150 -- _tSmart's Deluded Sadist _g152 -- _tFoot's Gas _g154 -- _tBrandt's Spelunkers _g156 -- _tWilliams's Jim in South America _g158 -- _tNozick's Experience Machine _g160 -- _tFeinberg's Egoist _g162 -- _tJamieson and Regan's Chainsaw _g164 -- _tJamieson and Regan's Terrorist Tank _g166 -- _tThomson's Trolley Problem _g168 -- _tThomson's Transplant Problem _g170 -- _tDonaldson's Equim _g172 -- _tApplied Ethics _g174 -- _tThomson's Violinist _g174 -- _tThomson's Growing Child in a Tiny House _g176 -- _tThomson's People-seeds _g178 -- _tTooley's Kitten _g180 -- _tWarren's Space Traveler _g182 -- _tWarren's Space Explorer _g184 -- _tSylvan's Last People _g186 -- _tRachels's Smith and Jones at the Bathtub _g188 -- _tHarris's Survival Lottery _g190 -- _tThe Routleys' Nuclear Train _g192 -- _tRegan's Lifeboat _g194 -- _tCaste's Hedonine and Pononine _g196 -- _tBattin's Automatic Reversible Contraception _g198 -- _g8 _tSocial and Political Philosophy _g200 -- _tLocke's Acorns and Apples _g200 -- _tThe Prisoner's Dilemma _g202 -- _tHardin's Tragedy of the Commons _g204 -- _tRawls's Veil of Ignorance _g206 -- _tNozick's Wilt Chamberlain _g208 -- _tHardin's Lifeboat _g210 -- _tO'Neill's Lifeboat _g212 -- _tAlexander's Doomsday Machine _g214 -- _tMarty's Two Shipwrecked Islanders _g216 -- _tParfit's Nobelist _g218 -- _tMills's Mr. Oreo _g220 -- _g9 _tAesthetics -- _tDewey's Finely Wrought Object _g222 -- _tZiff's Eccentric and Peculiar Objects _g224 -- _tDanto's Randomly Generated Object _g226 -- _tMoore's Glass Flowers _g228 -- _tCarroll's Loathe Letter _g230 -- _tPatton's Can Bad Men Make Good Brains Do Bad Things? _g232
520			_aThis 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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