Just the Arguments

A useful resource for an undergraduate library, this book also would be suitable for undergraduate courses, particularly introduction to philosophy, logic, and critical thinking. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and general readers. (Choice, 1 September 2012)

Michael Bruce currently researches in the history of philosophy. He has taught philosophy and mathematics courses at the University of Washington's Robinson Center for Young Scholars. Steven Barbone is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University.

Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: Show Me the Arguments 1 Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone Part I Philosophy of Religion 7 1 Aquinas' Five Ways 9 Timothy J. Pawl 2 The Contingency Cosmological Argument 18 Mark T. Nelson 3 The Kalam Argument for the Existence of God 22 Harry Lesser 4 The Ontological Argument 25 Sara L. Uckelman 5 Pascal's Wager 28 Leslie Burkholder 6 James' Will to Believe Argument 32 A. T. Fyfe 7 The Problem of Evil 35 Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone 8 The Free Will Defense to the Problem of Evil 37 Grant Sterling 9 St. Anselm on Free Choice and the Power to Sin 40 Julia Hermann 10 Hume's Argument against Miracles 44 Tommaso Piazza 11 The Euthyphro Dilemma 49 David Baggett 12 Nietzsche's Death of God 52 Tom Grimwood 13 Ockham's Razor 57 Grant Sterling Part II Metaphysics 59 14 Parmenides' Refutation of Change 61 Adrian Bardon 15 McTaggart's Argument against the Reality of Time 64 M. Joshua Mozersky 16 Berkeley's Master Argument for Idealism 68 John M. DePoe 17 Kant's Refutation of Idealism 70 Adrian Bardon 18 The Master Argument of Diodorus Cronus 73 Ludger Jansen 19 Lewis' Argument for Possible Worlds 76 David Vander Laan 20 A Reductionist Account of Personal Identity 79 Fauve Lybaert 21 Split-Case Arguments about Personal Identity 86 Ludger Jansen 22 The Ship of Theseus 88 Ludger Jansen 23 The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics 90 Montserrat Bordes 24 A Modern Modal Argument for the Soul 93 Rafal Urbaniak and Agnieszka Rostalska 25 Two Arguments for the Harmlessness of Death 99 Epicurus' Death is Nothing to Us Argument 99 Steven Luper Lucretius' Symmetry Argument 100 Nicolas Bommarito 26 The Existence of Forms: Plato's Argument from the Possibility of Knowledge 102 Jurgis (George) Brakas 27 Plato, Aristotle, and the Third Man Argument 106 Jurgis (George) Brakas 28 Logical Monism 111 Luis Estrada-Gonzlez 29 The Maximality Paradox 115 Nicola Ciprotti 30 An Argument for Free Will 119 Gerald Harrison 31 Frankfurt's Refutation of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities 121 Gerald Harrison 32 Van Inwagen's Consequence Argument against Compatibilism 123 Grant Sterling 33 Fatalism 125 Fernando Migura and Agustin Arrieta 34 Sartre's Argument for Freedom 128 Jeffrey Gordon Part III Epistemology 131 35 The Cogito Arguments of Descartes and Augustine 133 Descartes' Cogito 133 Joyce Lazier Augustine's "Si fallor, sum"Argument (If I Am Mistaken, I Exist) 135 Brett Gaul 36 The Cartesian Dreaming Argument for External-World Skepticism 137 Stephen Hetherington 37 The Transparency of Experience Argument 142 Carlos Mario Muoz-Surez 38 The Regress Argument for Skepticism 146 Scott Aikin 39 Moore's Anti-Skeptical Arguments 152 Matthew Frise 40 The Bias Paradox 154 Deborah Heikes 41 Gettier's Argument against the Traditional Account of Knowledge 156 John M. DePoe 42 Putnam's Argument against Cultural Imperialism 159 Maria Caamao 43 Davidson on the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme 162 George Wrisley 44 Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism 169 Robert Sinclair 45 Hume and the Problem of Induction 174 Hume's Problem of Induction 174 James E. Taylor Hume's Negative Argument concerning Induction 176 Stefanie Rocknak 46 Argument by Analogy in Thales and Anaximenes 180 Giannis Stamatellos 47 Quine's Epistemology Naturalized 183 Robert Sinclair 48 Sellars and the Myth of the Given 188 Willem A. deVries 49 Sellars' "Rylean Myth" 193 Willem A. deVries 50 Aristotle and the Argument to End All Arguments 198 Toni Vogel Carey Part IV Ethics 201 51 Justice Brings Happiness in Plato's Republic 203 Joshua I. Weinstein 52 Aristotle's Function Argument 208 Sean McAleer 53 Aristotle's Argument that