The 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.
Steven M. Cahn is professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Free Will or Determinism?Chapter 2 Random ChoicesChapter 3 Time, Truth, and AbilityChapter 4 Does God Know the Future?Chapter 5 Does God Exist?Chapter 6 The Problem of GoodnessChapter 7 The Moriarty HypothesisChapter 8 Job's ProtestChapter 9 The Noes Have It: Hume'sDialoguesChapter 10 Suppose God ExistsChapter 11 Religion Without GodChapter 12 The Question: Plato'sEuthyphroChapter 13 False BeliefsChapter 14 A Supreme Moral Principle?Chapter 15 Happiness and ImmoralityChapter 16 Meaningless Lives?Chapter 17 Two Concepts of Affirmative ActionChapter 18 The Curious Tale of Atlas CollegeChapter 19 Why Not Tell the Truth?Chapter 20 The Divestiture PuzzleChapter 21 The Strange Case of John ShmarbChapter 22 The Wife of LearChapter 23 John Dewey at EightyChapter 24 Are the Humanities Useful?Chapter 25 Should Liberal Education Change?Chapter 26 How to Improve Your TeachingChapter 27 How to Teach Introductory PhilosophyChapter 28 Taking Teaching SeriouslyChapter 29 Teaching Graduate Students to TeachChapter 30 Searching for Adminstrators: The Missing Step