Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Sixth Edition, is the most comprehensive topically organized collection of classical and contemporary philosophy available. The text includes sections on God and evil, knowledge and reality, the philosophy of science, the mind/body problem, freedom of will, consciousness, ethics, political philosophy, existential issues, and philosophical puzzles and paradoxes. Easy to use for both students and instructors alike, the book incorporates boldfaced key terms (listed after each reading and defined in the glossary); a guide to writing philosophy papers; and a "Logical Toolkit". The sixth edition includes five new readings-by renowned contemporary philosophers Anthony Brueckner, John Martin Fischer, Alan Goldman, Rosalind Hursthouse, and Thomas Nagel-and additional descriptive material on the authors throughout the book. An updated Instructor's Resource CD includes a test bank of exam questions, sample syllabi, summaries of each reading, and additional pedagogical tools. A Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/perry features the same material included on the CD and also links to a separate site for students, which offers multiple-choice self-quizzes; pedagogical material; and an interactive blog featuring recommended websites, news articles, helpful anecdotes, and interviews.

Table of Contents:
*=NEW TO THIS EDITION ; PART I: PHILOSOPHY ; Introduction: On the Study of Philosophy ; Bertrand Russell, The Value of Philosophy ; Plato, Apology: Defence of Socrates ; PART II: GOD AND EVIL ; A. WHY BELIEVE? ; St. Anselm, The Ontological Argument ; St. Thomas Aquinas, The Existence of God ; William Paley, Natural Theology ; Blaise Pascal, The Wager ; Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian ; B. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL ; David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion ; Gottfried Leibniz, God, Evil, and the Best of All Possible Worlds ; John Perry, Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God ; PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND REALITY ; A. PLATO AND THE CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE ; Plato, Theaetetus ; Edmund L. Gettier, Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? ; B. DESCARTES AND THE PROBLEMS OF SKEPTICISM ; Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy ; Christopher Grau, Bad Dreams, Evil Demons, and the Experience Machine: Philosophy and The Matrix ; Robert Nozick, Excerpt from Philosophical Explanations ; C. HUME'S PROBLEMS AND SOME SOLUTIONS ; David Hume, Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses ; David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; W. C. Salmon, The Problem of Induction ; PART IV: MINDS, BODIES, AND PERSONS ; A. THE TRADITIONAL PROBLEM OF MIND AND BODY ; Bertrand Russell, The Argument from Analogy for Other Minds ; Gilbert Ryle, Descartes's Myth ; David M. Armstrong, The Nature of Mind ; Daniel Dennett, Intentional Systems ; Paul M. Churchland, Eliminative Materialism ; Frank Jackson, What Mary Didn't Know ; B. MINDS, BRAINS, AND MACHINES ; A. M. Turing, Computing Machines and Intelligence ; John R. Searle, Minds, Brains, and Programs ; C. PERSONAL IDENTITY ; John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality ; Bernard Williams, The Self and the Future ; Derek Parfit, Personal Identity ; J. David Velleman, So It Goes ; Daniel Dennett, Where Am I? ; D. FREEDOM, DETERMINISM, AND RESPONSIBILITY ; Roderick M. Chisholm, Human Freedom and the Self ; Peter van Inwagen, The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will ; David Hume, On Liberty and Necessity ; Harry Frankfurt, Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility ; * John Martin Fischer, Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility ; Harry Frankfurt, Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person ; Thomas Nagel, Moral Luck ; PART V: ETHICS AND SOCIETY ; A. UTILITARIANISM ; Jeremy Bentham, The Principle of Utility ; John Stuart Mill, tilitarianism ; E. F. Carritt, Criticisms of Utilitarianism ; J. J. C. Smart, Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism ; Bernard Williams, Utilitarianism and Integrity ; Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality ; B. KANTIAN ETHICS ; Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ; J. David Velleman, A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics ; Onora O'Neill, Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems ; C. ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS ; Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics ; * Rosalind Hursthouse, Right Action ; D. JUSTICE AND EQUALITY ; John Rawls, A Theory of Justice ; Robert Nozick, Justice and Entitlement ; G. A. Cohen, Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice ; John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women ; Debra Satz, Markets in Women's Reproductive Labor ; Kwame Anthony Appiah, Racisms ; E. CHALLENGES TO MORALITY ; Plato, The Republic ; David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals ; David Gauthier, Morality and Advantage ; J. L. Mackie, The Subjectivity of Values ; Gilbert Harmon, Ethics and Observation ; Nicholas L. Sturgeon, Moral Explanations ; PART VI: EXISTENTIAL ISSUES ; Susan Wolf, Moral Saints ; Thomas Nagel, The Absurd ; Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus ; Richard Taylor, The Meaning of Human Existence ; Susan Wolf, The Meanings of Lives ; * Thomas Nagel, Sexual Perversion ; * Alan H. Goldman, Plain Sex ; Thomas Nagel, Death ; * Anthony L. Brueckner and John Martin Fischer, Why Is Death Bad? ; PART VII: PUZZLES AND PARADOXES ; A. ZENO'S PARADOXES ; B. METAPHYSICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL PUZZLES AND PARADOXES ; C. PUZZLES OF RATIONAL CHOICE ; D. PARADOXES OF LOGIC, SET THEORY, AND SEMANTICS ; E. PUZZLES OF ETHICS ; Glossary of Philosophical Terms