http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 23 May 2013 07:52:05 PDT Thu, 23 May 2013 07:52:05 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=302357 Almost all major works in philosophy are accessible via online sources on the Internet. Fortunately, most of the best work in philosophy is available as public domain; these readings provide convenient sources for almost anyone seeking to learn about ethics and ethical theory. Our present collection is composed almost entirely of public domain sources, edited and emended, and subject to the legal notice following the title page which references Appendix A. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79861 Online Textbook for use with a class on Ethics. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=352745 Each volume is broken into individual chapters. And each volume has an associated solutions manual (the last item under each volume). There is a file with corrections to both the text and the answer manual. Also note a file with the diagrammatic summary of the rules that appeared on the inside cover of the published version of the primmer. All files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF 6 format. they require version 6, or newer, of Adobe, which can be down loaded here. All files are fully searchable. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=352761 This text is concerned with a matter of considerable importance: the GOOD. Ethics is a branch of Philosophy which deals with the issue of the GOOD. The question here is what is the GOOD? What is meant by the GOOD? The answer is needed so that humans will know how to live a GOOD life. People need to know what the GOOD is in order to choose the GOOD. Ethics deals with theories of the GOOD. Ethical theories put forth principles of the GOOD. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86681 Complete Textbook online - was written with medical students as focus, but covers standard topics in clinical bioethics, including consent, confidentiality, death & dying, allocation of resources, etc. - chapters are in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=302325 forall x is an introduction to sentential logic and first-order predicate logic with identity, logical systems that significantly influenced twentieth-century analytic philosophy. After working through the material in this book, a student should be able to understand most quantified expressions that arise in their philosophical reading. This books treats symbolization, formal semantics, and proof theory for each language. The discussion of formal semantics is more direct than in many introductory texts. Although forall x does not contain proofs of soundness and completeness, it lays the groundwork for understanding why these are things that need to be proven.In formal logic, sentences and arguments are translated into mathematical languages with well-defined properties. If all goes well, properties of the argument that were hard to discern become clearer. This text describes two formal languages which have been of special importance to philosophers: truth-functional sentential logic and quantified predicate logic. The book covers translation, formal semantics, and proof theory for both languages. This can be used as the textbook for a semester long course in logic, for a unit on logic, or for self-directed study. Each chapter contains practice exercises; solutions to selected exercises appear in an appendix. The author is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University at Albany, SUNY. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=351071 An undergraduate college level textbook covering first order predicate logic with identity but omitting metalogical proofs. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=352728 An introduction to reasoning with propositional and first-order logic, with applications to computer science. Part of the TeachLogic Project (www.teachlogic.org). http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=352757 Philosophy is a human endeavor that has changed the course of history. We are all what we are, in part, because of the ideas of philosophers. There are not too many people who believe this. There are not that many people who think very much of Philosophy at all. Yet Philosophy has and does impact the lives of just about every thinking person on the planet. In fact, the very way in which we think is partly the result of the ideas which philosophers have produced over the ages and in all cultures. Just how is this the case? This is something that is not immediately obvious in contemporary culture. Today philosophy, if it is thought about at all, probably is thought to be some obscure and complicated subject for intellectuals that has no bearing on the important matters of everyday life. Yet this is not the case at all. In fact there are many things that people think are true and believe that are not true at all. In fact there are many things that appear to us to be so clearly understood that are, in fact and reality, not the way they actually appear to us to be. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76931 ONLINE TEXTBOOK for use with Introduction to Philosophy Course