R Fumerton
John Wiley & Sons
e druk, 2009
9781405171014
Introducing Philosophy Through Film – Key Texts, Discussion, and Film Selections
Key Texts, Discussion, and Film Selections
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Paperback, 640 blz.
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John Wiley & Sons |
e druk, 2009
ISBN13: 9781405171014
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Samenvatting
Philosophy Through Film offers a uniquely engaging and effective approach to introductory philosophy by combining an anthology of classical and contemporary philosophical readings with a discussion of philosophical concepts illustrated in popular films.
Pairs 50 classical and contemporary readings with popular films – from Monty Python and The Matrix to Casablanca and A Clockwork Orange
Addresses key areas in philosophy, including topics in ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, the problem of perception, and philosophy of time
Each unit begins with an extensive introduction by the editors and ends with study questions linking readings to films
Features chapter by chapter discussion of clips from films that vividly illustrate the critical philosophical arguments and positions raised in the readings
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Inhoudsopgave
Preface
<p>Source Acknowledgments</p>
<p>Part I: Introduction: Philosophical Analysis, Argument, and the Relevance of Thought Experiments</p>
<p>Films: Monty Python, "The Argument Skit"; Pulp Fiction; Seinfeld episode: The</p>
<p>Soup</p>
<p>Part II: The Problem of Perception</p>
<p>Films: Total Recall; The Matrix; Star Trek TV episode: The Menagerie</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>1. First Meditation and excerpt from Sixth Meditation: René Descartes</p>
<p>2. Some Further Considerations Concerning Our Simple Ideas of Sensation: John Locke</p>
<p>3. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous: George Berkeley</p>
<p>4. Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy: David Hume</p>
<p>5. The Self and the Common World: A. J. Ayer</p>
<p>6. Brains in a Vat: Hilary Putnam</p>
<p>7. The Structure of Skeptical Arguments and its Metaepistemological Implications: Richard Fumerton</p>
<p>8. The Experience Machine: Robert Nozick</p>
<p>Part III: Philosophy of Mind</p>
<p>Films: What Dreams May Come; Bicentennial Man; Heaven Can Wait; The Sixth Day; The Prestige; Multiplicity; Star Trek TV episode: Turn About Intruder</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>9. Second Meditation: René Descartes</p>
<p>10. Descartes Myth: Gilbert Ryle</p>
<p>11. Sensations and Brain Processes: J. J. C. Smart</p>
<p>12. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?: Thomas Nagel</p>
<p>13. What Mary Didn t Know: Frank Jackson</p>
<p>14. Minds, Brains, and Programs: John R. Searle</p>
<p>15. Mad Pain and Martian Pain: David Lewis</p>
<p>16. Eliminative Materialism: Paul Churchland</p>
<p>17. Of Identity and Diversity: John Locke</p>
<p>18. The Self and the Future: Bernard Williams</p>
<p>19. From Reasons and Persons: Derek Parfit</p>
<p>20. A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality: John Perry</p>
<p>21. On the Immortality of the Soul: David Hume</p>
<p>Part IV: Ethics</p>
<p>A. Act Consequentialism and its Critics</p>
<p>Films: Abandon Ship!; Fail Safe; Dirty Harry; Sophie s Choice; Saving Private Ryan; Judgment at Nuremberg; Minority Report: 24 (Season 3: 6.00 7.00 a.m.); Titanic; Vertical Limit</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>22. Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill</p>
<p>23. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: Immanuel Kant</p>
<p>24. What Makes Right Acts Right?: W. D. Ross</p>
<p>25. A Critique of Utilitarianism: Bernard Williams</p>
<p>26. An Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics: J. J. C. Smart</p>
<p>27. Intending Harm: Shelly Kagan</p>
<p>28. United States v. Holmes (1842)</p>
<p>29. The Queen v Dudley and Stephens</p>
<p>30. War and Massacre: Thomas Nagel<br /> B. Obligations to Intimates</p>
<p>Films: The English Patient; Casablanca; The Third Man; The Music Box; High Noon; Nick of Time; 24 (Season 1: 7.00 8.00 a.m.)</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>31. From Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle</p>
<p>32. Self and Others: C. D. Broad</p>
<p>33. Filial Morality: Christina Hoff Sommers</p>
<p>34. Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality: Peter Railton</p>
<p>35. Relatives and Relativism: Diane Jeske and Richard Fumerton</p>
<p>36. Families, Friends, and Special Obligations: Diane Jeske</p>
<p>37. An Ethic of Caring: Nel Noddings</p>
<p>Part V: Philosophy of Time</p>
<p>Films: Somewhere in Time; Back to the Future; Planet of the Apes; Frequency;</p>
<p>A Sound of Thunder</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>38. Making Things to 39. Space and Time: Richard Taylor</p>
<p>40. The Paradoxes of Time Travel: David Lewis</p>
<p>Part VI: Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Determinism</p>
<p>Films: Minority Report: The Boys From Brazil: A Clockwork Orange: The Omen: Compulsion: Law and Order ("black rage" defense), Season 5, Episode 69414, Rage (2/01/95)</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>41. From De Interpretatione: Aristotle</p>
<p>42. Of Liberty and Necessity: David Hume</p>
<p>43. Meaning and Free Will: John Hospers</p>
<p>44. Determinism: J. R. Lucas</p>
<p>45. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person: Harry G. Frankfurt</p>
<p>46. The M Naghten Rules (1843): House of Lords</p>
<p>47. The Insanity Defense (1956): The American Law Institute</p>
<p>48. What Is So Special About Mental Illness?: Joel Feinberg</p>
<p>Part VII: Philosophy of Religion</p>
<p>Films: Jason and the Argonauts; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; Dogma; YouTube: Mr Deity and the Evil</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>49. The Wager: Blaise Pascal</p>
<p>50. The Ontological Argument: Anselm</p>
<p>51. The Cosmological and Design Arguments: William L. Rowe</p>
<p>52. Evil and Omnipotence: J. L. Mackie</p>
<p>53. Why I Am Not a Christian: Bertrand Russell</p>
<p>Source Acknowledgments</p>
<p>Part I: Introduction: Philosophical Analysis, Argument, and the Relevance of Thought Experiments</p>
<p>Films: Monty Python, "The Argument Skit"; Pulp Fiction; Seinfeld episode: The</p>
<p>Soup</p>
<p>Part II: The Problem of Perception</p>
<p>Films: Total Recall; The Matrix; Star Trek TV episode: The Menagerie</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>1. First Meditation and excerpt from Sixth Meditation: René Descartes</p>
<p>2. Some Further Considerations Concerning Our Simple Ideas of Sensation: John Locke</p>
<p>3. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous: George Berkeley</p>
<p>4. Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy: David Hume</p>
<p>5. The Self and the Common World: A. J. Ayer</p>
<p>6. Brains in a Vat: Hilary Putnam</p>
<p>7. The Structure of Skeptical Arguments and its Metaepistemological Implications: Richard Fumerton</p>
<p>8. The Experience Machine: Robert Nozick</p>
<p>Part III: Philosophy of Mind</p>
<p>Films: What Dreams May Come; Bicentennial Man; Heaven Can Wait; The Sixth Day; The Prestige; Multiplicity; Star Trek TV episode: Turn About Intruder</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>9. Second Meditation: René Descartes</p>
<p>10. Descartes Myth: Gilbert Ryle</p>
<p>11. Sensations and Brain Processes: J. J. C. Smart</p>
<p>12. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?: Thomas Nagel</p>
<p>13. What Mary Didn t Know: Frank Jackson</p>
<p>14. Minds, Brains, and Programs: John R. Searle</p>
<p>15. Mad Pain and Martian Pain: David Lewis</p>
<p>16. Eliminative Materialism: Paul Churchland</p>
<p>17. Of Identity and Diversity: John Locke</p>
<p>18. The Self and the Future: Bernard Williams</p>
<p>19. From Reasons and Persons: Derek Parfit</p>
<p>20. A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality: John Perry</p>
<p>21. On the Immortality of the Soul: David Hume</p>
<p>Part IV: Ethics</p>
<p>A. Act Consequentialism and its Critics</p>
<p>Films: Abandon Ship!; Fail Safe; Dirty Harry; Sophie s Choice; Saving Private Ryan; Judgment at Nuremberg; Minority Report: 24 (Season 3: 6.00 7.00 a.m.); Titanic; Vertical Limit</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>22. Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill</p>
<p>23. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: Immanuel Kant</p>
<p>24. What Makes Right Acts Right?: W. D. Ross</p>
<p>25. A Critique of Utilitarianism: Bernard Williams</p>
<p>26. An Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics: J. J. C. Smart</p>
<p>27. Intending Harm: Shelly Kagan</p>
<p>28. United States v. Holmes (1842)</p>
<p>29. The Queen v Dudley and Stephens</p>
<p>30. War and Massacre: Thomas Nagel<br /> B. Obligations to Intimates</p>
<p>Films: The English Patient; Casablanca; The Third Man; The Music Box; High Noon; Nick of Time; 24 (Season 1: 7.00 8.00 a.m.)</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>31. From Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle</p>
<p>32. Self and Others: C. D. Broad</p>
<p>33. Filial Morality: Christina Hoff Sommers</p>
<p>34. Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality: Peter Railton</p>
<p>35. Relatives and Relativism: Diane Jeske and Richard Fumerton</p>
<p>36. Families, Friends, and Special Obligations: Diane Jeske</p>
<p>37. An Ethic of Caring: Nel Noddings</p>
<p>Part V: Philosophy of Time</p>
<p>Films: Somewhere in Time; Back to the Future; Planet of the Apes; Frequency;</p>
<p>A Sound of Thunder</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>38. Making Things to 39. Space and Time: Richard Taylor</p>
<p>40. The Paradoxes of Time Travel: David Lewis</p>
<p>Part VI: Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Determinism</p>
<p>Films: Minority Report: The Boys From Brazil: A Clockwork Orange: The Omen: Compulsion: Law and Order ("black rage" defense), Season 5, Episode 69414, Rage (2/01/95)</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>41. From De Interpretatione: Aristotle</p>
<p>42. Of Liberty and Necessity: David Hume</p>
<p>43. Meaning and Free Will: John Hospers</p>
<p>44. Determinism: J. R. Lucas</p>
<p>45. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person: Harry G. Frankfurt</p>
<p>46. The M Naghten Rules (1843): House of Lords</p>
<p>47. The Insanity Defense (1956): The American Law Institute</p>
<p>48. What Is So Special About Mental Illness?: Joel Feinberg</p>
<p>Part VII: Philosophy of Religion</p>
<p>Films: Jason and the Argonauts; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; Dogma; YouTube: Mr Deity and the Evil</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>49. The Wager: Blaise Pascal</p>
<p>50. The Ontological Argument: Anselm</p>
<p>51. The Cosmological and Design Arguments: William L. Rowe</p>
<p>52. Evil and Omnipotence: J. L. Mackie</p>
<p>53. Why I Am Not a Christian: Bertrand Russell</p>