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Preface | |
Philosophy | |
Introduction: On the Study of Philosophy | |
Logical Tool kit | |
Writing Philosophy Papers | |
The Value of Philosophy | |
Plato, Apology: Defence of Socrates | |
God And Evil | |
Introduction | |
Why Believe? | |
The Ontological Argument | |
The Existence of God | |
Natural Theology | |
The Wager | |
Why I Am Not a Christian | |
The Problem of Evil | |
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | |
God, Evil and the Best of All Possible Worlds | |
A Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God | |
Knowledge And Reality | |
Introduction | |
Plato and the Concept of Knowledge | |
Plato, Thaetetus | |
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? | |
Descartes and the Problems of Skepticism | |
Meditations on First Philosophy | |
Bad Dreams, Evil Demons, and the Experience Machine: Philosophy and The Matrix | |
Excerpt from Philosophical Explanations | |
Hume's Problems and Some Solutions | |
Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses | |
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | |
The Problem of Induction | |
Minds, Bodies, And Persons | |
Introduction | |
The Traditional Problem of Mind and Body | |
The Argument from Analogy for Other Minds | |
Descartes's Myth | |
The Nature of Mind | |
Intentional Systems | |
Eliminative Materialism | |
Minds, Brains, and Machines | |
Computing Machinery and Intelligence | |
Minds, Brains, and Programs | |
Consciousness | |
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? | |
What Mary Didn't Know | |
Knowing What It's Like | |
Personal Identity | |
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality | |
The Self and the Future | |
Personal Identity | |
So It Goes | |
Where Am I? | |
Freedom, Determinism, and Responsibility | |
Human Freedom and the Self | |
The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will | |
Of Liberty and Necessity | |
Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility | |
Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person | |
Thomas Nagel, Moral Luck | |
Ethics And Society | |
Introduction | |
Utilitarianism | |
The Principle of Utility | |
Utilitarianism | |
Criticisms of Utilitarianism | |
Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism | |
Utilitarianism and Integrity | |
Famine, Affluence, and Morality | |
Kantian Ethics | |
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals | |
A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics | |
Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems | |
War and Massacre | |
Aristotelian Ethics | |
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics | |
Aristotle on Eudaimonia | |
Justice and Equality | |
A Theory of Justice | |
Justice and Entitlement | |
Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice | |
The Subjection of Women | |
Markets in Women's Reproductive Labor | |
Racisms | |
Challenges to Morality | |
Morality and Self-Interest | |
Plato, The Republic | |
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | |
Morality and Advantage | |
The Law of the Jungle: Moral Alternatives and Principles of Evolution | |
Subjectivism, Relativism, and Skepticism | |
The Subjectivity of Values | |
Ethics and Observation | |
Moral Explanations | |
Existential Issues | |
Moral Saints | |
The Absurd | |
The Myth of Sisyphus | |
The Meaning of Human Existence | |
The Meanings of Lives | |
Death | |
Puzzles And Paradoxes | |
Introduction | |
Zeno's Paradoxes | |
Achilles and the Tortoise | |
The Racecourse | |
The Argument Against Plurality | |
Metaphysical and Epistemological Puzzles and Paradoxes | |
The Paradox of Identity | |
The Paradox of the Heap | |
The Surprise Examination | |
Goodman's New Riddle of Induction | |
Puzzles of Rational Choice | |
The Prisoner's Dilemma | |
Newcomb's Problem | |
Kavka's Toxin Puzzle | |
Quinn's Puzzle of the Self-Torturer | |
Paradoxes of Logic, Set Theory, and Semantics | |
The Paradox of the Liar | |
Other Versions of the Liar | |
Russell's Paradox | |
Grelling's Paradox | |
Puzzles of Ethics | |
The Trolley Problem | |
Ducking Harm and Sacrificing Others | |
Glossary | |
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