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12Freedom or determinism?In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, Oxford University Press Usa. 2000.
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64Teaching Graduate Students to TeachTeaching Philosophy 27 (4): 321-323. 2004.This paper describes a fourteen-week course titled “Teaching Philosophy” whose goal was to prepare new teachers on how to provide effective instruction to undergraduates. The author recounts a number of the benefits that result from teaching new instructors how to teach: slower and clearer instruction, better attention to motivating topics, as well as the capacity to present material in a more organized way. In addition to providing feedback from students who took the course, the author contends…Read more
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5Philosophy of religionHarper & Row. 1970.No volume by single scholar can recreate the incessant dialectic of contemporary philosophic inquiry; hence we are offering a series that is a collaboration of many hands. The present series is intended to provide students, teachers, and interested nonprofessionals with collections of essays in every major problem area of contemporary philosophy. Each volume is devoted to a single set of interconnected issues; each issue is currently that subject of intense philosophic discussion. In making rela…Read more
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54CacodaemonyIn Steven M. Cahn & David Shatz (eds.), Contemporary philosophy of religion, Oxford University Press. 1982.
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PrefaceIn Steven M. Cahn & David Shatz (eds.), Contemporary philosophy of religion, Oxford University Press. 1982.
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33Book Review:Toward an Ethic of Higher Education. Mortimer R. Kadish (review)Ethics 103 (1): 177-. 1992.
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22A new introduction to philosophyHarper & Row. 1971.An accessible and engaging introduction to philosophical inquiry, this book concentrates on topics of greatest interest to beginning students: the nature and tools of philosophy, free will, philosophy of religion, ethics, and social ...
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10Happiness and immoralityIn Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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100The strange case of John shmarb: An aesthetic puzzleJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 34 (1): 21-22. 1975.
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64Exploring philosophy of religion: an introductory anthology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.What are the inherent claims that lie at the core of religion? Which of them are defensible by reason, and which are not? Potential answers to these questions and more, from influential philosophers past and present, may be found in this short book edited by Steven M. Cahn. Featuring fifty-two classic and contemporary readings, Exploring Philosophy of Religion: Text and Readings is a topically-organized anthology that presents broad coverage of seven major areas in the philosophy of religion - …Read more
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60Classics of political and moral philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2002.Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy provides in one volume the major writings from nearly 2,500 years of political and moral philosophy. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, it moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Cicero) through medieval views (Augustine, Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Adam Smith, Kant). It includes major nineteenth-century thinkers (Hegel, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche) as well as twentieth…Read more
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