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Why Study Philosophy? | |
The Nature of Knowledge | |
Meno | p. 7 |
"The Myth of the Cave" | p. 23 |
"The Nature of Knowledge"* | p. 27 |
"How A Priori Knowledge Is Possible" | p. 32 |
"The A Priori and the Necessary"* | p. 35 |
"Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" | p. 43 |
"An Analysis of Knowledge"* | p. 44 |
Skepticism and the Scope of Knowledge | |
Meditations on First Philosophy | p. 50 |
"The Problem of the Criterion" | p. 77 |
"How to Make Our Ideas Clear" | p. 85 |
"Philosophical Scepticism and Everyday Life," selections | p. 95 |
"Skepticism" | p. 108 |
Perceptual and Inductive Knowledge | |
"Origins of Our Ideas and Knowledge"* | p. 115 |
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, selections | p. 141 |
"Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge" | p. 168 |
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, selections | p. 175 |
"Reflections on the Common Theory of Ideas" | p. 207 |
"On Induction" | p. 216 |
"The New Riddle of Induction," selections | p. 220 |
Causation and the Nature of Reality | |
"Why Anything? Why This?" | p. 231 |
Monadology | p. 243 |
"The Four Causes,"* selections | p. 251 |
"Causation," selections | p. 265 |
"Why Ask ''Why?'" | p. 274 |
"Evolution as a Universal Acid"* | p. 285 |
Identity and Personal Identity | |
"The Statue and the Clay" | p. 296 |
"On Identity"* | p. 310 |
"Of Identity," selections | p. 318 |
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality, selections | p. 321 |
"Personal Identity" | p. 334 |
Freedom of the Will | |
"The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism" | p. 346 |
"Human Freedom and the Self" | p. 353 |
"Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" | p. 360 |
"Are We Free to Break the Laws?" | p. 369 |
"Moral Luck" | p. 373 |
"Sensations and Brain Processes" | p. 384 |
"The Nature of Mental States" | p. 391 |
"The Intentional Stance and Why It Works" | p. 397 |
"Three Cheers for Prepositional Attitudes" | p. 409 |
"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" | p. 421 |
"Epiphenomenal Qualia" | p. 427 |
"Brains in a Vat" | p. 433 |
Major Theories | |
Euthyphro | p. 450 |
Nicomachean Ethics | p. 459 |
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals | p. 474 |
"Understanding and Defending Utilitarianism"* | p. 493 |
"Against Slavish Moralities"* | p. 503 |
Motivation, Self-Interest, and the Good Life | |
Apology | p. 517 |
"Hobbes" | p. 529 |
"The Myth of Sisyphus" | p. 542 |
"The Experience Machine" | p. 544 |
Metaethics | |
"The Emotive and Social Basis of Ethics"* | p. 546 |
"The Subjectivity of Values" | p. 554 |
"Two Concepts of Rules" | p. 565 |
"What's Wrong with Lying?" | p. 577 |
Applications | |
"The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect" | p. 588 |
"A Defense of Abortion" | p. 594 |
"Famine, Affluence, and Morality" | p. 604 |
"War and Massacre" | p. 611 |
"Active and Passive Euthanasia" | p. 621 |
"The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn" | p. 625 |
Leviathan, selections | p. 636 |
"The Social Contract"* | p. 653 |
"Social Liberty"* | p. 664 |
"Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844," selections | p. 678 |
"The Original Position and the Principles of Justice"* | p. 684 |
"A Libertarian Critique of Rawls"* | p. 694 |
The Existence and Nature of God | |
"The Ontological Argument"* | p. 709 |
"The Five Ways - Question II, Third Article" | p. 711 |
"The Cosmological Argument and the Principle of Sufficient Reason" | p. 713 |
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, selections | p. 719 |
"Theology and Falsification" | p. 751 |
"A Refutation of Arguments from Evil" | p. 753 |
"Evil and Omnipotence" | p. 757 |
"The Magnitude, Duration, and Distribution of Evil: A Theodicy," selections | p. 764 |
Reason and Faith | |
"On Miracles," selections | p. 772 |
"On the Importance of Christianity and the Nature of Historical Evidence, and Miracles," selections | p. 777 |
"The Wager" | p. 784 |
"The Ethics of Belief," selections | p. 786 |
"The Will to Believe" | p. 792 |
"Deciding to Believe" | p. 802 |
"Of the Standard of Taste" | p. 815 |
"The Nature of Aesthetic Judgment"* | p. 824 |
"What Is Art?" selections | p. 830 |
"When Is Art?" | p. 838 |
"The Artistic Enfranchisement of Real Objects: The Artworld" | p. 844 |
"What Is Art? An Institutional Analysis" | p. 852 |
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