Preface
Part I
Philosophy
Logical Toolkit
Writing Philosophy Papers
Bertrand Russell, "The Value of Philosophy"
Plato, "Apology: Defense of Socrates"
Part II
God and Evil
A. Why Believe?
Saint Anselm, "The Ontological Argument"
Saint Thomas
Aquinas, "The Existence of God"
William Paley, "Natural Theology"
William James, <"The Will to Believe>"
B. The Problem of Evil
David Hume, "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion"
Gottfried Leibniz, "God, Evil and the Best of All Possible Worlds"
William Rowe, <"The
Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism>"
Marilyn McCord Adams, <"Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God>"
Stewart Sutherland, <"Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God>"
Eleonore Stump, <"The Mirror of Evil>"
Louise Antony, <"For the Love of Reason>"
Part III
Knowledge
and Reality
A. Plato, Descartes, and the Problems of Skepticism
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Robert Nozick, The Experience Machine*
Rene Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"
Keith DeRose and Ted A. Warfield, <"Responding to Skepticism>"*
Peter Graham, <"Beginning
to Respond to Skepticism>"*
B. Hume's Problems and Some Solutions
David Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"
W.C. Salmon, "The Problem of Induction"
Part IV
Minds, Bodies, and Persons
A. The Traditional Problem of Mind and Body
David M.
Armstrong, "The Nature of Mind"
Paul M. Churchland, "Eliminative Materialism"
Frank Jackson, "What Mary Didn't Know"
Patricia Churchland, "Neurophilosophy"
B. Minds, Brains, and Machines
A. M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
John R. Searle, "Minds,
Brains, and Programs"
C. Personal Identity
John Perry, "A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immorality"
Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity"
J. David Velleman, "So It Goes"
Daniel Dennett, "Where Am I?"
Marya Schechtman, "Personhood and Personal Identity"
Agnieszka
Jaworska, "Respecting the Margins of Agency: Alzheimer's Patients and the Capacity to Value"
D. Freedom, Determinism, and Responsibility
Roderick M. Chisholm, "Human Freedom and the Self"
David Hume, "Of Liberty and Necessity"
Harry G. Frankfurt, "Alternate Possibilities and
Moral Responsibility"
John Martin Fischer, "Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility"
Harry G. Frankfurt, "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person"
Gary Watson, "Free Agency"
Christian Wenzel, <"Free Will and Zhaungzi>"*
Part V
Ethics and Society
A.
Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham, "The Principle of Utility"
John Stuart Mill, "Utilitarianism"
F. Carritt, "Criticisms of Utilitarianism"
Mozi, "Excerpts from Mozi"
Peter Singer, <"Famine, Affluence, and Morality>"
B. Kantian Ethics
Immanuel Kant, "Groundwork of the
Metaphysics of Morals"
Onora O'Neill, "Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems"
C. Aristotelian Ethics
Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics"
Rosalind Hursthouse, "Right Actions"
D. Justice and Equality
John Rawls, "A Theory of Justice"
Robert Nozick, "Justice
and Entitlement"
John Stuart Mill, "The Subjection of Women"
Annette C. Baier, "The Need for More Than Justice"
Elizabeth Anderson, <"What's Wrong with Inequality?>"*
E. Contemporary Moral Problems
Judith Jarvis Thomson, <"A Defense of Abortion,>"
Debra Satz, "Markets in
Women's Reproductive Labor"
Kwame Anthony Appiah, <"Racisms>"
Linda Martin Alcoff, <"Racism and Visible Race>"
Part VI
Existential Issues
A. Meaning of Life
Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus"
Thomas Nagel, "The Absurd"
Richard Taylor, "The Meaning of Human
Existence"
Susan Wolf, "The Meanings of Lives"
B. Death
Thomas Nagel, "Death"
James Baillie, <"Existential Shock>"*
John Martin Fischer, Excerpt from Death, Immortality and Meaning in Life*
Amy Olberding, "Sorrow and the Sage: Grief in the Zhuangzi"
Jenann Ismael,
"The Ethical Importance of Death"
Samuel Scheffler, <"The Afterlife>"*
Part VII
Puzzles and Paradoxes
A. Zeno's Paradoxes
Achilles and the Tortoise
The Racecourse
The Argument Against Plurality
B. Metaphysical and Epistemological Puzzles and
Paradoxes
The Paradox of Identity
The Paradox of Heap
The Surprise Examination
Goodman's New Riddle of Induction
C. Puzzles of Rational Choice
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Newcomb's Problem
Kavka's Toxin Puzzle
Quinn's Puzzle of the Self-Torturer
D.
Paradoxes of Logic, Set Theory, and Semantics
The Paradox of the Liar
Other Versions of the Liar
Russell's Paradox
Grelling's Paradox
E. Puzzles of Ethics
The Trolley Problem
Ducking Harm and Sacrificing Others
Glossary of Philosophical Terms
Instructor Resources:
Instructor's Manual
Test Bank
Lecture Outlines
John Perry is the Henry Walgrave Stuart Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Stanford University, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of California-Riverside. He is author of Personal Identity (University of California Press, 1975); and A Dialogue on Personal Identity and
Immortality (Hackett, 1978).
Michael Bratman is the U.G. and Abbie Birch Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Science and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He is author of Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason (Center for the Study of Language and Information,
1999); Faces of Intention: Selected Essays on Intention and Agency (Cambridge UP, 1999).
John Martin Fisher is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and UC President's Chair at University of California-Riverside. He's the author of The Metaphysics of Death (Stanford University Press,
1993); My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility (OUP, 2006); Perspectives on Moral Responsibility (Cornell UP, 1993); Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (Cambridge UP, 1999); Free Will: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (Routledge, 2005) and Death, Immortality, and the Meaning
of Life (OUP 2019).
