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| (1926-2004): In Memoriam | |
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| Preface | |
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| About Our Website | |
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| The Nature And Value Of Philosophy | |
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| Plato, Euthyphro | |
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| The Value of Philosophy | |
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| Reason And Religious Belief | |
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| The Existence Of God | |
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| Anselm of Canterbury, The Ontological Argument, from Proslogion | |
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| Gaunilo of Marmoutiers, On Behalf of the Fool | |
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| The Ontological Argument | |
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| The Five Ways, from Summa Theologica | |
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| A Modern Formulation of the Cosmological Argument | |
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| The Cosmological Argument | |
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| The Argument from Design | |
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| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, II-XI | |
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| The Problem Of Evil | |
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| Rebellion, from The Brothers Karamazov | |
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| Evil and Omnipotence | |
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| Must God Create the Best? Richard Swinburne, Why God Allows Evil, from Is there a God? | |
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| God and the Problem of Evil | |
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| Reason And Faith | |
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| The Ethics of Belief | |
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| The Will to Believe | |
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| Without Evidence or Argument | |
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| The Wager | |
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| Miracles and Testimony, from Think | |
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| Human Knowledge: Its Grounds And Limits | |
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| Skepticism | |
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| A Brain in a Vat | |
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| Three Skeptical Arguments | |
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| The Problem of the Criterion | |
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| The Nature Of Knowledge | |
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| Plato, Knowledge as Justified True Belief, from Theaetetus | |
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| Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? James Cornman, Keith Lehrer, and George Pappas, An Analysis of Knowledge | |
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| Our Knowledge Of The External World | |
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| Appearance and Reality and the Existence of Matter | |
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| Meditations on First Philosophy | |
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| The Causal Theory of Perception, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
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| Of the Principles of Human Knowledge | |
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| Of the Existence of a Material World, from Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense | |
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| Proof of an External World | |
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| The Methods Of Science | |
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| An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, II, IV-VII | |
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| An Encounter with David Hume | |
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| Conjectures and Refutations | |
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| Believing Where We Cannot Prove, from Abusing Science | |
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| Mind And Its Place In Nature | |
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| The Mind-Body Problem | |
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| In Defense of Mind-Body Dualism | |
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| The Qualia Problem | |
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| The Mind is the Brain, from Introducing Persons | |
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| Functionalism and Eliminative Materialism, from Matter and Consciousness | |
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| Can Nonhumans Think? | |
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| Computing Machinery and Intelligence | |
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| Minds, Brains, and Programs | |
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| Robots and Minds, from Consciousness | |
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| Brute Experience | |
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| Animal Minds | |
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| Personal Identity And The Survival Of Death | |
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| The Prince and the Cobbler, from An Essay concerning Human Understanding | |
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| Of Mr Locke's Account of Identity, from Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man | |
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| The Self, from A Treatise of Human Nature | |
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| Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons | |
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| Where am I? from Brainstorms | |
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| A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality | |
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| Determinism, Free Will, And Responsibility | |
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| The Mysteries Of Free Will | |
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| Freedom of the Will | |
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| Libertarianism: The Case For Free Will And Its Incompatibility With Determinism | |
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| Human Freedom and the Self | |
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| Free Will: Ancient Dispute, New Themes | |
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| Hard Determinism: The Case For Determinism And Its Incompatibility With Any Important Sense Of Free Will | |
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| The Illusion of Free Will, from System of Nature | |
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| Why We Have No Free Will and Can Live Without It | |
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| Compatibilism: The Case For Determinism And Its Compatibility With The Most Important Sense Of Free Will Of Liberty and Necessity, from An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | |
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| Freedom and Necessity, from Philosophical Essays | |
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| Freedom And Moral Responsibility | |
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| The Debate over Free Will | |
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| Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility | |
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| Moral Luck | |
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| Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility | |
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| Morality And Its Critics | |
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| Challenges To Morality | |
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| Psychological Egoism | |
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| Ethical Egoism, from Elements of Moral Philosophy | |
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| Plato, The Immoralist's Challenge, from Republic Book II | |
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| Master and Slave Morality, from Beyond Good and Evil | |
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| Proposed Standards Of Right Conduct Russ Shafer-Landau, Ethical Subjectivism | |
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| Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation | |
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| Aristotle, Virtue and the Good Life, from Nicomachean Ethics | |
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| Leviathan, Part I, Chapters XIII-XV | |
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| Justice as Fairness, from A Theory of Justice | |
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| God and Objective Morality | |
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| The Good Will and The Categorical Imperative, from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Utilitarianism, chapters 1 and 2 | |
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| What Makes Right Acts Right? from The Right and the Good | |
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| What is Feminist Ethics? from An Invitation to Feminist Ethics | |
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| Ethical Problems Plato, Crito | |
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| Famine, Affluence, and Morality | |
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| The Survival Lottery | |
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| Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
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| Unsanctifying Human Life | |
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| A Defense of Abortion | |
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| An Argument That Abortion is Wrong | |
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| The Meaning Of Life | |
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| Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus | |
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| Brave New World | |
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| My Confession | |
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| The Meaning of Life | |
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| The Absurd | |
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| Glossary | |