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| Preface | |
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| An Introduction to the Great Conversation of Philosophy | |
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| Philosophy and its Problems | |
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| A Meta-Narrative of the History of Philosophy | |
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| General Bibliography for Readers | |
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| The Ancient Greek Origins of Western Philosophy | |
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| Introduction: the Birth of Philosophy in Ancient Greece | |
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| An Overview of the Presocratics | |
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| Thales and the Milesians Contemplate the Cosmos | |
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| The Great Speculators on Being and Becoming: Heraclitus, Parmenides and Empedocles | |
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| The Philosopher as Pesky Gadfly: Socrates'' Apology | |
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| Plato, THE APOLOGY | |
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| Plato''s Republic | |
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| Plato, THE REPUBLIC, Part 1; Selections from Part 2; Selections from Part 3; Aristotle | |
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| Aristotle, On Virtue and the Ethical Mean | |
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| The State''s Origin In the Household | |
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| Forms of the State | |
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| The Best State | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| The Philosophy of Religion | |
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| An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Medieval Proofs for the Existence of God | |
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| Anselm, GOD TRULY IS | |
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| Rene Descartes, The Ontological Argument Revisited | |
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| Thomas Aquinas, Reasons In Proof of The Existence of God | |
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| S�ren Kierkegaard on the Christian Church | |
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| Soren Kierkegaard, Attack Upon "Christendom" | |
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| David Hume''s Skeptical Attacks on Religion | |
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| David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche and the Death of God | |
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| Nietzsche On God | |
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| Nietzsche On Christian Belief and the Christian Church | |
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| Nietzsche On Christianity As Herd Morality | |
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| The Problem of Evil. B.C | |
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| Johnson, God and the Problem of Evil | |
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| John Hick, the Problem of Evil | |
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| Contemporary Questions in the Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Alvin Plantinga, Christian Philosophy At the End of the Twentieth Century | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Mind, Body, and Self | |
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| The Mind/Body Problem | |
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| The Mysterious Case of the Mind and the Body | |
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| Descartes'' Dualism | |
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| RenT Descartes, Meditations | |
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| Ryle on the Ghost in the Machine | |
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| Gilbert Ryle, The Ghost In The Machine | |
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| The Problem of Consciousness | |
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| Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like To Be A Bat? | |
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| Paul M | |
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| Churchland, Eliminative Materialism | |
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| The Self Five The ories of the Self | |
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| Empiricism: the Self as a Bundle of Perceptions | |
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| David Hume, of Personal Identity | |
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| Romanticism: the Self as an Active, Creative Energy | |
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther | |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defense of Poetry | |
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| Existentialism: the Absurdly Free Self | |
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| JosT Ortega y Gasset, Man Has No Nature | |
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| Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is A Humanism | |
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| Sociological The ory: the Socially Constructed Self | |
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| Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| Knowing Our World | |
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| Knowledge and the Human Condition | |
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| John Locke''s Blank Slate | |
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| John Locke, AN Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
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| David Hume''s Skeptical Empiricism | |
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| David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | |
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| William James''s Pragmatic View of Truth | |
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| William James, Pragmatism''s Conception of Truth. A. J | |
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| Ayer and Positivism. A. J | |
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| Ayer, the Elimination of Metaphysics. R. G | |
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| Collingwood''s Idea of History. R. G | |
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| Collingwood, Human Nature and Human History | |
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| Thomas Kuhn on the Structure of Scientific Revolutions | |
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| Thomas Kuhn, the Structure of Scientific Revolutions | |
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| Richard Rorty on Truth: Deconstructing Knowledge | |
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| Richard Rorty, Science As Solidarity | |
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| Sandra Harding and the Case of Feminist Epistemology: Just Whose "Knowledge" Are We Talking About? | |
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| Sandra Harding, is The re A Feminist Methodology? | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Ethics: An Introduction | |
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| Adam Smith and Moral Sense The ory | |
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| Adam Smith, the The ory of Moral Sentiments | |
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| John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism | |
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| John Stuart Mill, What is Utilitarianism? | |
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| Immanuel Kant and Deontology | |
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| Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond God, Good, and Evil | |
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| Nietzsche''s critique of conventional morality | |
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| The Genealogy of Master and Slave Morality | |
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| Justin Oakley: A Virtue Ethics Approach | |
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| Justin Oakley, A Virtue Ethics Approach | |
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| Rita Manning and Feminist Care Ethics. R | |