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Tables of Contents for Readings for Logical Analysis
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
PART ONE ON TORTURE AND MURDER
1
40
MICHAEL LEVIN
The Case for Torture
1
4
CESARE BONESANA
Torture
5
3
VINCENT BUGLIOSI
O.J. Simpson Was Guilty
8
5
JOHNNIE COCHRAN
O.J. Simpson Was Not Guilty
13
10
JOHN HENRY WIGMORE
The Borden Case
23
18
PART TWO ON THE CAUSES OF CRIME
41
38
SIGMUND FREUD
Human Nature Is Inherently Bad
41
3
MICHAEL HARRINGTON
Defining Poverty
44
3
DAVID RUBINSTEIN
Don't Blame Crime on Joblessness
47
4
DON B. KATES, JR.
Handgun Bans: Facts to Fight With
51
10
JOHN HENRY SLOAN, ET AL
Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities
61
18
PART THREE ON THE DEATH PENALTY
79
32
SISSEL SETERAS STOKES
Capital Punishment Is Immoral
79
2
H. L. MENCKEN
The Penalty of Death
81
4
JUSTICE WILLIAM BRENNAN
Furman v. Georgia
[Capital Punishment Is Unconstitutional]
85
14
JUSTICE POTTER STEWART
Gregg v. Georgia
99
12
PART FOUR ON THE ARTS
111
32
JOHN ENRIGHT
What Is Poetry?
111
3
JESSE HELMS
Amendment 420 [The NEA Should Not Fund Obscenity]
114
7
ROBERT HUGHES
A Loony Parody of Cultural Democracy
121
4
ROBERT SAMUELSON
Highbrow Pork Barrel
125
4
STEVEN DURLAND
Censorship, Multiculturalism, and Symbols
129
4
MARSHA FAMILIARO ENRIGHT
Why Does Music Cause Emotion?
133
10
PART FIVE ON SCIENCE
143
28
STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs
143
10
MURDOCK PENCIL
Salt Passage Research: The State of the Art
153
8
CARL HEMPEL
Semmelweis and Childbed Fever
161
4
CHARLES DARWIN
On Evolution
165
6
PART SIX ON EDUCATION
171
38
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Children Should Not Be Reasoned With
171
3
SHEILA TOBIAS
Mathematics and Sex
174
11
CAROLINE BIRD
College Is a Waste of Time and Money
185
12
MAX SHULMAN
Love Is a Fallacy
197
12
PART SEVEN ON JUSTICE AND RIGHTS
209
24
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
On Cruelty and Clemency: Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared
209
4
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Declaration of Independence
213
5
HOSEA L. MARTIN
A Few Kind Words for Affirmative Action
218
4
LISA H. NEWTON
Bakke and Davis: Justice, American Style
222
3
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
Shouting "Fire!"
225
8
PART EIGHT ON ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND GOVERNMENT REGULATION
233
42
JUSTICE LOUIS BRANDEIS
New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann [The Government May Prohibit Competition]
233
17
HENRY HAZLITT
Who's "Protected" by Tariffs?
250
3
LINDA GORMAN
Minimum Wages
253
7
ISAAC SHAPIRO
The Dispute over the Minimum Wage
260
6
LIBERTY NETWORK ASSOCIATION
The New World Order
266
9
PART NINE ON ABORTION
275
34
RONALD REAGAN
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation
275
11
BARUCH BRODY
Fetal Humanity and Brain Function
286
6
LAURENCE H. TRIBE
Opposition to Abortion Is Not Based on Alleged Rights to Life
292
5
MARY ANNE WARREN
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
297
12
PART TEN ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
309
14
E. K. DANIEL
Two Proofs of God's Existence
309
5
GEORGE H. SMITH
God Does Not Exist
314
9
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
323