Screen LibraryThe Stone reader : modern philosophy in 133 arguments /
A timeless volume to be read and treasured, The Stone Reader provides an unparalleled overview of contemporary philosophy. Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was l...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Liveright paperback [edition]. |
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A timeless volume to be read and treasured, The Stone Reader provides an unparalleled overview of contemporary philosophy. Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly attracted millions of readers through its accessible examination of universal topics like the nature of science, consciousness and morality, while also probing more contemporary issues such as the morality of drones, gun control and the gender divide. Now collected for the first time in this handsomely designed volume, The Stone Reader presents 133 meaningful and influential essays from the series, placing nearly the entirety of modern philosophical discourse at a reader's grasp. The book, divided into four broad sections--Philosophy, Science, Religion and Morals, and Society--opens with a series of questions about the scope, history and identity of philosophy: What are the practical uses of philosophy? Does the discipline, begun in the West in ancient Greece with Socrates, favor men and exclude women? Does the history and study of philosophy betray a racial bias against non-white thinkers, or geographical bias toward the West? These questions and others form a foundation for readers as the book moves to the second section, Science, where some of our most urgent contemporary philosophical debates are taking place. Will artificial intelligence compromise our morality? Does neuroscience undermine our free will? Is there is a legitimate place for the humanities in a world where science and technology appear to rule? Should the evidence for global warming change the way we live, or die? In the book's third section, Religion and Morals, we find philosophy where it is often at its best, sharpest and most disturbing--working through the arguments provoked by competing moral theories in the f |
| Carrier Form: | xxviii, 794 pages ; 24 cm |
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9781324091493 1324091495 |
| Index Number: | B805 |
| CLC: | B152 |
| Call Number: | B152/S879 |
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Preface to the Paperback Edition: on paperbacks and permanence -- Introduction -- Section I. Philosophy : New impressions of an old profession : What is a philosopher? / Simon Critchley ; The flight of curiosity / Justin E.H. Smith ; Philosophy as an art of dying / Costica Bradatan ; Philosophy: what's the use? / Gary Gutting ; In the cave: philosophy and addiction / Peg O'Connor ; Women in philosophy?: Do the math / Sally Haslanger ; What's wrong with philosophy? / Linda Martín Alcoff ; The disappearing women / Rae Langton ; The difficulty of philosophy / Alexander George ; The philosophical dinner party / Frieda Klotz ; When Socrates met Phaedrus: eros in philosophy / Simon Critchley -- The geography of philosophy : The Enlightenment's "race" problem and ours / Justin E.H. Smith ; Kung fu for philosophers / Peimin Ni ; Bridging the analytic-continental divide / Gary Gutting ; Of cannibals, kings and culture: the problem of ethnocentricity / Adam Etinson ; Found in translation / Hamid Dabashi ; Born again in a second language / Costica Bradatan ; Philosophy's western bias / Justin E.H. Smith -- Rethinking thinkers : Spinoza's vision of freedom, and ours / Steven Nadler ; Of Hume and bondage / Simon Blackburn ; A feminist Kant / Carol Hay ; Sartre and Camus in New York / Andy Martin ; Kierkegaard's Antigone / Ulrika Carlsson ; Freud's radical talking / Benjamin Y. Fong ; Was Wittgenstein right? / Paul Horwich -- Old problems, new spins : Experiments in philosophy / Joshua Knobe ; Your move: the maze of free will / Galen Strawson ; The limits of the coded world / William Egginton ; On modern time / Espen Hammer ; Logic and neutrality / Timothy Williamson ; Paradoxical truth / Graham Priest ; The drama of existentialism / Gary Gutting ; Reasons for reason / Michael P. Lynch ; Reclaiming the imagination / Timothy Williamson ; Are there natural human rights? / Michael Boylan -- Philosophy, literature and life : Is philosophy literature? / Jim Holt ; Does great liter Blinded by neuroscience? : Bursting the neuro-utopian bubble / Benjamin Y. Fong ; Bodies in motion: an exchange / Alex Rosenberg and William Egginton ; Is neuroscience the death of free will? / Eddy Nahmias ; Is the "dumb jock" really a nerd? / Jason Stanley and John W. Krakauer -- The social impact of science : Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton ; Can neuroscience challenge Roe v. Wade? / William Egginton ; Depression and the limits of psychiatry / Gary Gutting ; Why are states so red and blue? / Steven Pinker ; The enigma of Chinese medicine / Stephen T. Asma ; The dangers of pseudoscience / Massimo Pigluicci and Maarten Boudry -- Can we live with uncertainty? : Nothing to see here: demoting the uncertainty principle / Craig Callender ; The dangers of certainty: a lesson from Auschwitz / Simon Critchley ; The riddle of the human species / Edward O. Wilson -- Section III. Religion and morals : What is faith? : Philosophy and faith / Gary Gutting ; Mystery and evidence / Tim Crane ; The rigor of love / Simon Critchley ; Does it matter whether God exists? / Gary Gutting ; The importance of the afterlife: seriously / Samuel Scheffler -- The varieties of religious disagreement : In praise of the clash with cultures / Carlos Fraenkel ; What's wrong with blasphemy? / Andrew F. March ; Why I love Mormonism / Simon Critchley ; An imperfect God / Yoram Hazony ; The politics of the binding of Isaac / Omri Boehm ; On questioning the Jewish State / Joseph Levine ; The freedom of faith: a Christmas sermon / Simon Critchley -- Morality's God problem : Good minus God / Louise M. Antony ; Morals without God? / Frans de Waal ; The sacred and the humane / Anat Biletzki ; Confessions of an ex-moralist / Joel Marks ; Are we ready for a "morality pill"? / Peter Singer and Agata Sagan ; The light at the end of suffering / Peg O'Conner -- Some hard moral cases : The maze of moral relativism / Paul Boghossian ; Is pure altruism possible? / Judith Lichtenberg ; The li |