| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| What Is Philosophy? | |
| Plato, Euthyphro (complete) | |
| Theory of Knowledge | |
| Opinion and Knowledge Plato, The Republic (selection) | |
| Knowledge through Reason Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (selection) | |
| Knowledge through Experience Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (selection) | |
| Experience Structured by the Mind Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (selection) | |
| Knowing and Doing James, Pragmatism (selection) | |
| Knowledge and Emotion Jaggar, Love and Knowledge (selection) | |
| Philosophy of Religion | |
| Proving the Existence of God Anselm, Proslogion (selection) Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selection) Paley, Natural Theology (selection) Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (selection) | |
| Justifying Religious Belief Pascal, Pensées (selection) James, The Will to Believe (selection) Freud, The Future of an Illusion (selection) | |
| Confronting the Problem of Evil Mackie, Evil and Omnipotence (complete) Hick, Philosophy of Religion (selection) | |
| Metaphysics | |
| Idealism and Materialism Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (selection) Armstrong, Naturalism, Materialism and First Philosophy (selection) | |
| The Mind-Body Problem Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (selection) Searle, Minds, Brains and Science (selection) | |
| Physics and Metaphysics O'Hear, Introduction to the Philosophy of Science(selection) | |
| Personal Identity and Immortality | |
| Personal Identity Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (selection) Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (selection) Dennett, The Origin of Selves (complete) Pali Canon (selection) | |
| Immortality Plato, Phaedo (selection) Penelhum, Religion and Rationality (selection) | |
| Freedom to Choose | |
| Libertarianism James, The Dilemma of Determinism (selection) Taylor, Metaphysics (selection) | |
| Determinism Hospers, Meaning and Free Will (selection) Skinner, Walden Two (selection) | |
| Compatibilism Stace, Religion and the Modern Mind (selection) Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy (selection) | |
| Ethics | |
| Fulfilling Human Nature Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (selection) | |
| Loving God Augustine, The Morals of the Catholic Church & The City of God (selections) | |
| Following Natural Law Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selection) | |
| Doing One's Duty Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (selection) | |
| Maximizing Utility Mill, Utilitarianism (selection) | |
| Turning Values Upside Down Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil (selections) | |
| Creating Ourselves Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism (selection) | |
| Hearing the Feminine Voice Gilligan, In a Different Voice (selection) Baier, What Do Women Want in a Moral Theory? (selection) | |
| Political and Social Philosophy | |
| The State as Natural Plato, The Republic (selection) Aristotle, Politics (selection) | |
| The State as a Social Contract Hobbes, Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society (selection) Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (selection) | |
| Liberty of the Individual Mill, On Liberty (selection) | |
| Alienation in Capitalism Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (selection) | |
| Justice and Social Trust Rawls, A Theory of Justice (selection) Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (selection) Held, Rights and Goods (selection) | |
| Women in Society Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (selection) De Beauvoir, The Second Sex (selection) | |
| Conclusion: The Value of Philosophy Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (selection) Midgley, Philosophical Plumbing (selection) | |
| Glossary | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Index | |
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