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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi

The Search for Ultimate Reality

Primary Sources

Aristotle's Metaphysics
(http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/a/a8m/)

W. D. Ross translation; text from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection
Descartes' Discourse on Method
(http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/d/d44dm/)

Text from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection
Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
(http://philos.wright.edu/Descartes/Meditations.html)

Trilingual edition in English, French and Latin; John Veitch English translation; edited by David B. Manley & Charles S. Taylor
Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
(http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm)

Seminal article that introduced the notion of the Turing Test; from Mind, 1950
Searle's "Minds, Brains, and Programs"
(http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/MindsBrainsPrograms.html)

Article in which Searle introduces his famous Chinese Room argument against strong AI
Searle's "Is the Brain a Digital Computer?"
(http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/searle.comp.html)

Article offering Searle's overview of his account of the mind
Maugham's Of Human Bondage
(http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/38/76/frameset.html)

Text from Bibliomania
Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground
(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DosNote.html)

Constance Garnett translation; text from the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
Butler's Erewhon
(http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/10/2377/frameset.html)

Text from Bibliomania
Spinoza's Ethics
(http://frank.mtsu.edu/~rbombard/RB/Spinoza/ethica-front.html)

R. H. M. Elwes translation; Middle Tennessee State University Philosophy WebWorks hypertext edition
Stace's "The Problem of Free Will"
(http://www.unomaha.edu/~wwwphrel/soft.htm#*)

Text from John R. Burr and Milton Goldinger (Eds.) Philosophy & Contemporary Issues, 1988; posted by the Department of Philosophy and Religion (University of Nebraska at Omaha)