The Stone reader: modern philosophy in 133 arguments

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 literature make us better? / Gregory Currie ; Stormy weather: blues in winter / Avital Ronell ; Poetry, medium and message / Ernie Lepore ; Boxing lessons / Gordon Marino ; The practical and the theoretical / Jason Stanley ; The meaningfulness of lives / Todd May ; The spoils of happiness / David Sosa

Section II. Science : Can science explain everything? : What is naturalism? / Timothy Williamson ; Why I am a naturalist / Alex Rosenberg ; On ducking challenges to naturalism / Timothy Williamson ; The core of Mind and cosmos / Thomas Nagel ; Things fall apart / Philip Kitcher

The evolution of right and wrong : Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? / Peter Railton ; Evolution and our inner conflict / Edward O. Wilson ; If peas can talk, should we eat them? / Michael Marder ; The future of moral machines / Colin Allen ; Cambridge, cabs and Copenhagen: my route to existential risk / Huw Price

Where is my mind? Mary and the zombies: can science explain consciousness? / Gary Gutting ; A real science of mind / Tyler Burge ; Out of our brains / Andy Clark ; Do thrifty brains make better minds? / Andy Clark.

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 Issac / 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 living death of solitary confinement / Lisa Guenther ; Should this be the last generation? / Peter Singer ; The meat eaters / Jeff McMahan ; Think before you breed / Christine Overall ; On forgiveness / Charles L. Griswold ; Questions for free-market moralists / Amia Srinivasan ; The myth of universal love / Stephen T. Asma

Section IV. Society : Economics and politics : Hegel on Wall Street / J.M. Bernstein ; What is economics good for? / Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain ; The taint of "social Darwinism" / Philip Kitcher ; The veil of opulence / Benjamin Hale ; Dependents of the state / Amia Srinivasan ; The failure of rational choice philosophy / John McCumber ; Mandela's socialist failure / Slavoj Žižek ; When hope tramples truth / Roger Scruton

The modern family : Is forced fatherhood fair? / Laurie Shrage ; "Mommy wars" redux: a false conflict / Amy Allen ; When culture, power and sex collide / Linda Martín Alcoff ; Lady power / Nancy Bauer ; The end of "marriage" / Laurie Shrage

Black, white or other : Fugitive slave mentality / Robert Gooding-Williams ; Walking while Black in the "white gaze" / George Yancy ; Getting past the outrage of race / Gary Gutting ; A lesson from Cuba on race / Alejandro de la Fuente ; Is the United States a "racial democracy" / Jason Staley and Vesla Weaver ; What if we occupied language? / H. Samy Alim ; Does immigration mean "France is over"? / Justin E.H. Smith

Freedom from the barrel of a gun : Who needs a gun? / Gary Gutting ; The weapons continuum / Michael Boylan ; The freedom of an armed society / Firmin DeBrabander ; Is American nonviolence possible? / Todd May ; The moral hazard of drones / John Kaag and Sarah Kreps ; A crack in the stoic's armor / Nancy Sherman ; Rethinking the "just war" / Jeff McMahan

This American life : The gospel according to "me" / Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster ; Deluded individualism / Firmin DeBrabander ; The very angry tea party / J.M. Bernstein ; Is our patriotism mor

al? / Gary Gutting ; The cycle of revenge / Simon Critchley ; What is a "hacktivist"? / Peter Ludlow ; The myth of "just do it" / Barbara Gail Montero ; How to live without irony / Christy Wampole ; Navigating past nihilism / Sean D. Kelly.

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 literature make us better? / Gregory Currie ; Stormy weather: blues in winter / Avital Ronell ; Poetry, medium and message / Ernie Lepore ; Boxing lessons / Gordon Marino ; The practical and the theoretical / Jason Stanley ; The meaningfulness of lives / Todd May ; The spoils of happiness / David Sosa

Section II. Science : Can science explain everything? : What is naturalism? / Timothy Williamson ; Why I am a naturalist / Alex Rosenberg ; On ducking challenges to naturalism / Timothy Williamson ; The core of Mind and cosmos / Thomas Nagel ; Things fall apart / Philip Kitcher

The evolution of right and wrong : Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? / Peter Railton ; Evolution and our inner conflict / Edward O. Wilson ; If peas can talk, should we eat them? / Michael Marder ; The future of moral machines / Colin Allen ; Cambridge, cabs and Copenhagen: my route to existential risk / Huw Price

Where is my mind? Mary and the zombies: can science explain consciousness? / Gary Gutting ; A real science of mind / Tyler Burge ; Out of our brains / Andy Clark ; Do thrifty brains make better minds? / Andy Clark.

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 living death of solitary confinement / Lisa Guenther ; Should this be the last generation? / Peter Singer ; The meat eaters / Jeff McMahan ; Think before you breed / Christine Overall ; On forgiveness / Charles L. Griswold ; Questions for free-market moralists / Amia Srinivasan ; The myth of universal love / Stephen T. Asma

Section IV. Society : Economics and politics : Hegel on Wall Street / J.M. Bernstein ; What is economics good for? / Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain ; The taint of "social Darwinism" / Philip Kitcher ; The veil of opulence / Benjamin Hale ; Dependents of the state / Amia Srinivasan ; The failure of rational choice philosophy / John McCumber ; Mandela's socialist failure / Slavoj Žižek ; When hope tramples truth / Roger Scruton

The modern family : Is forced fatherhood fair? / Laurie Shrage ; "Mommy wars" redux: a false conflict / Amy Allen ; When culture, power and sex collide / Linda Martín Alcoff ; Lady power / Nancy Bauer ; The end of "marriage" / Laurie Shrage

Black, white or other : Fugitive slave mentality / Robert Gooding-Williams ; Walking while Black in the "white gaze" / George Yancy ; Getting past the outrage of race / Gary Gutting ; A lesson from Cuba on race / Alejandro de la Fuente ; Is the United States a "racial democracy" / Jason Staley and Vesla Weaver ; What if we occupied language? / H. Samy Alim ; Does immigration mean "France is over"? / Justin E.H. Smith

Freedom from the barrel of a gun : Who needs a gun? / Gary Gutting ; The weapons continuum / Michael Boylan ; The freedom of an armed society / Firmin DeBrabander ; Is American nonviolence possible? / Todd May ; The moral hazard of drones / John Kaag and Sarah Kreps ; A crack in the stoic's armor / Nancy Sherman ; Rethinking the "just war" / Jeff McMahan

This American life : The gospel according to "me" / Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster ; Deluded individualism / Firmin DeBrabander ; The very angry tea party / J.M. Bernstein ; Is our patriotism mor

al? / Gary Gutting ; The cycle of revenge / Simon Critchley ; What is a "hacktivist"? / Peter Ludlow ; The myth of "just do it" / Barbara Gail Montero ; How to live without irony / Christy Wampole ; Navigating past nihilism / Sean D. Kelly.