Pojman and Vaughn, Philosophy: The Quest for Truth 11e Student Resources

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The student resources to accompany Philosophy: The Quest for Truth 11e include self-quizzes, essay questions, key term flashcards, web links, and a glossary.

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Self-Quiz 1.1

Plato: Socratic Wisdom

Self-Quiz 1.2

Plato: The Allegory of the Cave

Self-Quiz 1.3

John Locke: Of Enthusiasm and the Quest for Truth

Self-Quiz 1.4

Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy

Self-Quiz 2.1

Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways

Self-Quiz 2.2

William Lane Craig: The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Anthropic Principle

Self-Quiz 2.3

Paul Edwards: A Critique of the Cosmological Argument

Self-Quiz 2.4

William Paley: The Watch and the Watchmaker

Self-Quiz 2.5

David Hume: A Critique of the Teleological Argument

Self-Quiz 2.6

St. Anselm and Gaunilo: The Ontological Argument

Self-Quiz 2.7

William Rowe: An Analysis of the Ontological Argument

Self-Quiz 2.8

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Why Is There Evil?

Self-Quiz 2.9

B. C. Johnson: Why Doesn't God Intervene to Prevent Evil?

Self-Quiz 2.10

John Hick: There Is A Reason Why God Allows Evil

Self-Quiz 2.11

William L. Rowe: The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism

Self-Quiz 2.12

Blaise Pascal: Yes, Faith is a Logical Bet

Self-Quiz 2.13

W.K. Clifford: The Ethics of Belief

Self-Quiz 2.14

William James: The Will to Believe

Self-Quiz 2.15

Alvin Plantinga: Religious Belief without Evidence

Self-Quiz 2.16

Michael Martin: Faith and Foundationalism

Self-Quiz 2.17

Soren Kierkegaard: Faith and Truth

Self-Quiz 2.18

Bertrand Russell: Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?

Self-Quiz 3.1

Rene Descartes: Cartesian Doubt and the Search for Foundational Knowledge

Self-Quiz 3.2

John Locke: The Empiricist Theory of Knowledge

Self-Quiz 3.3

George Berkeley: An Idealist Theory of Knowledge

Self-Quiz 3.4

David Hume: The Origin of Our ideas

Self-Quiz 3.5

G.E. Moore: Proof of an External World

Self-Quiz 3.6

Bertrand Russell: The Correspondence Theory of Truth

Self-Quiz 3.7

William James: The Pragmatic Theory of Truth

Self-Quiz 3.8

Richard Rorty: Dismantling Truth: Solidarity Versus Objectivity

Self-Quiz 3.9

Daniel Dennett: Postmodernism and Truth

Self-Quiz 3.10

Eve Browning Cole: Philosophy and Feminist Criticism

Self-Quiz 3.11

Alison Ainley: Feminist Philosophy

Self-Quiz 3.12

David Hume: Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operation of the Understanding

Self-Quiz 3.13

Wesley C. Salmon: The Problem of Induction

Self-Quiz 4.1

Rene Descartes: Substance Dualism

Self-Quiz 4.2

Gilbert Ryle: Exorcising Descartes' "Ghost in the Machine"

Self-Quiz 4.3

J.P. Moreland: A Contemporary Defense of Dualism

Self-Quiz 4.4

Paul Churchland: On Functionalism and Materialism

Self-Quiz 4.5

J.J. C. Smart: Sensations and Brain Processes

Self-Quiz 4.6

Thomas Nagel: What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Self-Quiz 4.7

Jerry A. Fodor: The Mind-Body Problem

Self-Quiz 4.8

David Chalmers: Property Dualism

Self-Quiz 4.9

John Searle: Minds, Brains, and Computers

Self-Quiz 4.10

Ned Block: Troubles with Functionalism

Self-Quiz 4.11

John Locke: Our Psychological Properties Define the Self

Self-Quiz 4.12

David Hume: We Have No Substantial Self with Which We Are Identical

Self-Quiz 5.1

Baron D'Holbach: We Are Completely Determined

Self-Quiz 5.2

William James: The Dilemma of Determinism

Self-Quiz 5.3

Roderick M. Chisholm: Human Freedom and the Self

Self-Quiz 5.4

Harry Frankfurt: Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person

Self-Quiz 5.5

David Hume: Liberty and Necessity

Self-Quiz 5.6

W.T. Stace: Compatibilism

Self-Quiz 6.1

Ruth Benedict: Morality is Relative

Self-Quiz 6.2

James Rachels: Morality is Not Relative

Self-Quiz 6.3

Plato: Why Should I Be Moral? Gyge's Ring and Socrates' Dilemma

Self-Quiz 6.4

Louis P Pojman: Egoisn and Altruism: A Critique of Ayn Rand

Self-Quiz 6.5

Joel Feinberg: Psychological Egoism

Self-Quiz 6.6

Immanuel Kant: The Moral Law

Self-Quiz 6.7

John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism

Self-Quiz 6.8

Russ Shafer-Landau: Consequentialism: Its Difficulties

Self-Quiz 6.9

Aristotle: The Ethics of Virtue

Self-Quiz 6.10

Virginia Held: The Ethics of Care

Self-Quiz 6.11

Alison M. Jaggar: Feminist Ethics

Self-Quiz 6.12

Annette C Baier: The Need for More than Justice

Self-Quiz 6.13

Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist Ethics

Self-Quiz 6.14

James Rachels The Divine Command Theory

Self-Quiz 6.15

Thomas Nagel: Moral Luck

Self-Quiz 6.16

Susan Wolf: Moral Saints

Self-Quiz 7.1

Robert Paul Wolff: In Defense of Anarchism

Self-Quiz 7.2

Thomas Hobbes: The Absolutist Answer: The Justification of the State Is the Security it Affords

Self-Quiz 7.3

John Locke: The Democratic Answer: The Justification of the State Is Its Promotion of Security and Natural Human Rights

Self-Quiz 7.4

John Stuart Mill: A Classical Liberal Answer: Government Must Promote Freedom

Self-Quiz 7.5

John Rawls: The Contemporary Liberal Answer

Self-Quiz 7.6

Robert Nozick: Against Liberalism

Self-Quiz 7.7

Martin Luther King, Jr: Nonviolence and Racial Justice

Self-Quiz 7.8

Susan Moller Okin: Justice, Gender, and the Family

Self-Quiz 7.9

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Self-Quiz 8.1

Epicurus: Moderate Hedonism

Self-Quiz 8.2

Epictetus: Stoicism: Enchiridion

Self-Quiz 8.3

Albert Camus: Life is Absurd

Self-Quiz 8.4

Julian Baggini: Living Life Forwards

Self-Quiz 8.5

Louis P Pojman: Religion Gives Meaning to Life

Self-Quiz 8.6

Thomas Nagel: The Absurd

Self-Quiz 8.7

Richard Taylor: The Meaning of Life

Self-Quiz 8.8

Susan Wolf: Meaning in Life

Self-Quiz 9.1

Don Marquis: Why Abortion Is Immoral

Self-Quiz 9.2

Francis J. Beckwith: Arguments from Bodily Rights

Self-Quiz 9.3

Mary Anne Warren: On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion

Self-Quiz 9.4

Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion

Self-Quiz 9.5

Jane English: The Moderate Position: Beyond the Personhood Argument

Self-Quiz 9.6

Burton Leiser: The Death Penalty Is Permissible

Self-Quiz 9.7

Igor Promoratz: A Life for A Life

Self-Quiz 9.8

Lawrence Blum: "Racism": Its Core meaning

Self-Quiz 9.9

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Racisms

Self-Quiz 9.10

Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Self-Quiz 9.11

Garrett Hardin: Living on a Lifeboat

Chapter 1 Essay Questions

What Is Philosophy?

Chapter 2 Essay Questions

Philosophy of Religion

Chapter 3 Essay Questions

Knowledge

Chapter 4 Essay Questions

Philosophy of Mind: The Mind-Body Problem

Chapter 5 Essay Questions

Freedom of the Will and Determinism

Chapter 6 Essay Questions

Ethics

Chapter 7 Essay Questions

Political Philosophy and Justice

Chapter 8 Essay Questions

What Is the Meaning of Life?

Chapter 9 Essay Questions

Contemporary Moral Problems

Chapter 1 Web Links

What Is Philosophy?

Chapter 2 Web Links

Philosophy of Religion

Chapter 3 Web Links

Knowledge

Chapter 4 Web Links

Philosophy of Mind: The Mind-Body Problem

Chapter 5 Web Links

Freedom of the Will and Determinism

Chapter 6 Web Links

Ethics

Chapter 7 Web Links

Political Philosophy and Justice

Chapter 8 Web Links

What Is the Meaning of Life?

Chapter 9 Web Links

Contemporary Moral Problems

Chapter 1 Key Term Flashcards

What Is Philosophy?

Chapter 2 Key Term Flashcards

Philosophy of Religion

Chapter 3 Key Term Flashcards

Knowledge

Chapter 4 Key Term Flashcards

Philosophy of Mind: The Mind-Body Problem

Chapter 5 Key Term Flashcards

Freedom of the Will and Determinism

Chapter 6 Key Term Flashcards

Ethics

Chapter 9 Key Term Flashcards

Contemporary Moral Problems

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