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Editors and Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Mind, Body, and Introductory text: Socrates and the Soul of Death: George Graham.Selected Readings: Plato, Phaedo (selections). Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, Correspondence, Passions of the Soul. Thomas Nagel, Death. Gareth Matthews, Life and Death as the Arrival and Departure of Psyche. Jerry Fodor, Mind-Body Problem. 2. Freedom and Determinism. Introductory Text: Sartre on Being Free: George Graham and Harold Kincaid.Selected Readings: Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (selections). Pierre Simone de Laplace, Philosophical Essays on Determinism (selections). Daniel Dennett, Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want. Robert Kane, Free Will: The Elusive Ideal. 3. Philosophical Theology. Introductory Text: Aquinas and the Rationality of Belief in God: Gregory Pence. Selected Readings: Thomas Aquinas, Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God, from Summa Theologica. William Paley, Evidence of Design. John L. Mackie, for Design. William L. Rowe, Cosmological Argument. R. M. Adams, Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning.... Fydor Dostoevsky, Why Does God Permit Evil? from The Brothers Karamazov. 4. Knowledge and Scepticism. Introductory Text: Descartes and Our Knowledge of the External World: G. Lynn Stephens. Selected Readings: Descartes, Meditations on First (selections). Bertrand Russell, The Problems of (selections). W. V. O. Quine, Posits and Reality. Bruce Aune, Knowledge, Mind and Nature (selections). 5. The Scientific Method. Introductory Text: Mill and the Nature of Harold Kincaid. Selected Readings: John Stuart Mill, System of Logic (selections). Carl Hempel, of Natural Science (selections). Karl Popper, Philosophy of Science: Personal Report. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (selections). J. J. C. Smart, Physics and Reality. 6. The Nature of Morality. Introductory Text: Nietzsche and the Objectivity of Morals: James Rachels. Selected Readings: Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (selections) Genology of Morals (selections). David Hume, Morality, Sentiment, and Reason (selections from the Treatise ). A. J. Ayer, A Defence of Emotivism. Renford Bambrough, A Proof of the Objectivity of Morals. Ronald Dworkin, Concept of a Moral Position. 7. Government. Introductory Text: Locke: The Individual, the Public, the State (selections). Selected Readings: Plato, The Republic (selections). Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (selections). John Locke, 2nd Treatise (selections). John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (selections). George Dargo, Private and Legal Takings (selections). Charles A. Reich, New Property (selections). Michael Sandel, Morality and the Liberal Ideal. Iris Marion Young, Impartiality and the Civic Public (selections). 8. Distributive Justice. Introductory Text: Marx and the Problem of Justice: N. Scott Arnold. Selected Readings: Karl Marx, Preface to Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (selections). Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (selections). Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (selections). John Rawls, Theory of Justice (selections). Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (selections). Index.
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