Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy

Thinking It Through An Introduction To Contemporary Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 1-412

  Appiah, Kwame Anthony ^a  

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1. Edward Craig, ed. (Routledge, London and New York, 2000) if you want to get either a reliable introduction to a topic or advice about further reading. This is also available on CD-ROM and on the Web. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
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7. Peter Singer, A Companion to Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford and New Malden, MA, 1993).
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10. F. E. Sutcliffe’s easily available translation Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Penguin, New York and Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1968). This passage is on page 54.
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13. “simple theory of pain” is from Ned Block’s “Introduction: What Is Functionalism?” in Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Ned Block, ed. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1980), Volume I, p. 174.
14. Thomas Nagel, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” in Readings in Philosophy of Psychology op. cit., Volume I, pp. 159–168.
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29. Frege’s paper, enti- tled “Über Sinn und Bedeutung,” was first published in Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik, NF 100, 1892, 25–50.
30. Gottlob Frege’s “On Sense and Reference,” with assistance from Max Black’s translation in The Frege Reader, Michael Beaney, ed. (Blackwell Publishers Limited, Oxford and New Malden, MA, 1997).
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37. N. R. Hanson’s discussion of theory-ladenness, see his Patterns of Discovery (Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge, 1965).
38. Sellars makes his arguments against the myth of the given in “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind,” in Science, Perception, and Reality (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1963.)
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44. The quotation from G. E. Moore is from Principia Ethica (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1903), p. 148.
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51. Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia (Basic books, New York, 1974), p. 7.
52. John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971), p. 137.
53. Robert Paul Wolff is from Understanding Rawls (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1977), pp. 31–32.
54. John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Publishing Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1980).
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56. Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “Some Ruminations on Rights,” which appeared originally in The University of Arizona Law Review 19 (1977).
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60. Herbert Hart’s The Concept of Law (Clarendon Press, New York and Oxford, 1961) are relevant to section 7.4. The quotations are from pp. 70–79.
61. Ted Honderich’s Punishment: The Supposed Justifications (Penguin, New York and Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1984), pp. 51–52.
62. David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion to be found in Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Nelson Pike, ed. (Bobbs-Merrill, New York, 1970). The quotation here is from p. 40.
63. Thomas Pavel, Fictional Worlds (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986).
64. Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande are from Eva Gillies’ abridged edition (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1976), pp. 201–3.
65. Sir Ronald Melville, Of the Nature of Things (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
66. K. Ramakrisna Rao and John Palmer, in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1987): 539–643.
67. John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, eds. (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1993). There is an excellent introduction by the editors.
68. Robert Nozick’s observation about the thermostat is made in Philosophical Explanations (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1981), p. 315.