Chapter 1. What Is Philosophy?
1. Plato, Apology
2. Bertrand Russell, The Value of Philosophy
Chapter 2. Philosophy of Religion
A. The Existence of God
3. Anselm, Proslogion and Exchange with Gaunilo
4. Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on God
5. David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
6. William Paley, Natural Theology
7. Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
B. The Problem of Evil
8. Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will
9. J. L. Mackie, Evil and Omnipotence
10. John Hick, An Irenaean Theodicy
C. Faith and Reason
11. Plato, Euthyphro
12. Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Chapter 3. Theories of Knowledge
13. Plato, Republic
14. René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
15. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
16. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
17. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
18. Alison M. Jaggar, Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology
Chapter 4. Philosophy of Mind
A. The Mind-Body Problem
19. René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
20. David Carruthers, The Case for Physicalism
21. Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
B. Personal Identity
22. John Locke, Of Identity and Diversity
23. Marya Schechtman, Personal Identity and the Past
24. James Giles, The No-Self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity
25. Daniel C. Dennett, The Origins of Selves
Chapter 5. Free Will and Determinism
26. Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach, The System of Human Freedom
27. William James, The Dilemma of Determinism
28. W. T. Stace, The Problem of Morals
29. Richard Taylor, Freedom and Determinism
30. Nancy Holmstrom, Firming Up Soft Determinism
31. Galen Strawson, The Impossibility of Ultimate Moral Responsibility
Chapter 6. Ethics
A. Classical Ethical Theories
32. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
33. Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law
34. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
35. John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
B. Critiques of Classical Theories
36. Søren Kierkegaard, Is There a Teleological Suspension of the Ethical?
37. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
38. Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism
39. James Rachels, The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
40. Rita C. Manning, Just Caring
Chapter 7. Political and Social Philosophy
A. Classical Political Theories
41. Plato, Crito
42. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
43. John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government
44. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
45. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
46. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
B. Contemporary Social Issues
47. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
48. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
49. Joseph Raz, Multiculturalism
50. Anne Phillips, Multiculturalism without Culture
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