Philosophical Debates
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Philosophical Debates

  1. 126 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Philosophical Debates

About this book

This volume completes a trilogy of Steven M. Cahn's shorter writings that includes The Road Traveled and Other Essays (2019) and A Philosopher's Journey (2020). Included here are his contributions to three philosophical debates: first, whether events are fated to occur; second, whether God is knowable; and third, whether morality can conflict with happiness. The book contains not only Cahn's essays but also edited versions of the writings to which he is responding, thereby putting his remarks into context and rendering them accessible to all. These pieces make clear why Professor Cahn is regarded as one of the leading philosophy teachers of his generation.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. PART I - FATALISM
  4. Introduction
  5. Fatalism
  6. Professor Taylor on Fatalism
  7. Fatalism and Ability
  8. Fatalism and Linguistic Reform
  9. Fatalistic Arguments
  10. PART II - THEISM
  11. Introduction
  12. The Mystery of God
  13. Job’s Protest
  14. The Problem of Meaning
  15. Theism and Meaning
  16. Life Without God
  17. The Moriarty Hypothesis
  18. Dummy Hypotheses
  19. PART III - HAPPINESS
  20. Introduction
  21. Understanding the Debate
  22. The Happy Immoralist
  23. Happiness and Virtue
  24. The Unhappy Immoralist
  25. Is Fred Happy?
  26. Fred’s Happiness
  27. A Challenge to Morality
  28. The Case of Richard Rich
  29. PART IV - LITERARY INSPIRATIONS
  30. Introduction
  31. A Clockwork Orange: On Free Will
  32. If Not Higher: On Religion Without God
  33. The Wife of Lear: On the Nature of Evil
  34. Knoxville, Summer of 1915: On the Good Life
  35. The Joseph Saga: On the Human Condition
  36. Sources
  37. Works of Steven M. Cahn
  38. About the Author