Puzzles & Perplexities: Collected EssaysThe thirty articles in Puzzles and Perplexitie, displaying clarity and acumen, present a balanced picture of Steven M. Cahn's wide-ranging work over more than four decades. Taken together, the signal essays in this volume guide the reader on a journey through Cahn's remarkable career as a philosopher and educator. |
Contents
Free Will or Determinism? | 3 |
Random Choices | 15 |
Time Truth and Ability | 19 |
Does God Know the Future? | 25 |
Belief In God | 29 |
Does God Exist? | 31 |
The Problem of Goodness | 39 |
The Moriarty Hypothesis | 45 |
The Curious Tale of Atlas College | 103 |
Why Not Tell the Truth? | 107 |
The Divestiture Puzzle | 109 |
The Strange Case of John Shmarb | 113 |
The Wife of Lear | 117 |
Education | 119 |
The Distinctive Legacy of John Dewey | 121 |
Are the Humanities Useful? | 129 |
Jobs Protest | 49 |
The Noes Have It Humes Dialogues | 53 |
Suppose God Exists | 59 |
Religion without God | 63 |
The Question Platos Euthyphro | 69 |
False Beliefs | 75 |
Morality Society and Art | 77 |
A Supreme Moral Principle? | 79 |
Happiness and Immorality | 85 |
Meaningless Lives? | 89 |
Two Concepts of Affirmative Action | 93 |
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