Steven M. Cahn

Puzzles & Perplexities

Collected Essays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A revised edition of Steven Cahn's book of short philosophical essays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9780739121160
• ISBN-10: 0739121162
• Artikelnr.: 22882423

Autorenporträt

Steven M. Cahn is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he served for nearly a decade as provost and vice president for academic affairs, then as acting president. He taught at Dartmouth College, Vassar College, New York University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Vermont, where he chaired the Department of Philosophy. He is the author or editor of more than seventy books.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Free Will or Determinism? Chapter 2 Random Choices Chapter 3
Time, Truth, and Ability Chapter 4 Does God Know the Future? Chapter 5 Does
God Exist? Chapter 6 The Problem of Goodness Chapter 7 The Moriarty
Hypothesis Chapter 8 Job's Protest Chapter 9 The Noes Have It:
Hume'sDialogues Chapter 10 Suppose God Exists Chapter 11 Religion Without
God Chapter 12 The Question: Plato'sEuthyphro Chapter 13 False Beliefs
Chapter 14 A Supreme Moral Principle? Chapter 15 Happiness and Immorality
Chapter 16 Meaningless Lives? Chapter 17 Two Concepts of Affirmative Action
Chapter 18 The Curious Tale of Atlas College Chapter 19 Why Not Tell the
Truth? Chapter 20 The Divestiture Puzzle Chapter 21 The Strange Case of
John Shmarb Chapter 22 The Wife of Lear Chapter 23 John Dewey at Eighty
Chapter 24 Are the Humanities Useful? Chapter 25 Should Liberal Education
Change? Chapter 26 How to Improve Your Teaching Chapter 27 How to Teach
Introductory Philosophy Chapter 28 Taking Teaching Seriously Chapter 29
Teaching Graduate Students to Teach Chapter 30 Searching for Adminstrators:
The Missing Step