Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings

Value Of Philosophy / Bertrand Russell -- The Province Of Philosophy / J.j. C. Smart -- The Absurd/ Thomas Nagel -- Why I Am Not A Theist / Bertrand Russell -- God, Evil And The Best Of All Possible Worlds / Gottfried Leibniz -- Must God Create The Best? / Robert Merrihew Adams -- The Ontological Argument / Saint Anselm -- The Existence Of God Proven / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion / David Hume -- The Wager / Blaise Pascal -- Against Objectivity In Religion / Soren Kierkegaard -- Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning In Religion / Robert Merrihew Adams -- Meditations On First Philosophy / Rene Descartes -- Some Further Considerations Concerning Our Simple Ideas Of Sensation / John Locke -- Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous / George Berkeley -- Of Skepticism With Regard To The Senses / David Hume -- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / David Hume -- The Argument From Illusion / A. J. Ayer -- The Argument From Illusion / J. L. Austin -- The Problem Of Induction / W. C. Salmon -- Causality And Determination / G. E. M. Anscombe -- Laws And Their Role In Scientific Explanation / Carl G. Hempel -- Gender And Science: Two Problematic Concepts/ Sandra Harding -- How To Defend Society Against Science / Paul Feyerabend -- Descartes's Myth / Gilbert Ryle -- The Argument From Analogy For Other Minds / Bertrand Russell -- The Nature Of Mind / David Armstrong -- The Nature Of Mental States / Hilary Putnam -- Intentional Systems / Daniel Dennett -- What Is It Like To Be A Bat?/ Thomas Nagel -- Eleminative Materialism / Paul M. Churchland -- Computing Machinery And Intelligence/ A. M. Turing -- Minds, Brains, And Programs / John R. Searle -- Brains In A Vat / Hilary Putnam -- Of Identity And Diversity / John Locke -- Of Identity / Thomas Reid -- Of Personal Identity / David Hume -- The Self And The Future / Bernard Williams -- Williams On The Self And Its Future / John Perry -- Has The Self Free Will?/ C. A. Campbell -- Of Liberty And Necessity / David Hume -- Freedom And Determinism / Richard Taylor -- Freedom Of The Will And The Concept Of A Person / Harry G. Frankfurt -- I Could Not Have Done Otherwise -- So What? / Daniel Dennett -- A Defense Of Abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- The Problem Of Abortion And The Doctrine Of The Double Effect / Philippa Foot -- Some Paradoxes Of Deterrence / Gregory Kavka -- Utilitarianism -- The Principle Of Utility / Jeremy Bentham -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Criticisms Of Utilitarianism / E. F. Carritt -- Extreme And Restricted Utilitarianism / J. J. C. Smart -- Utilitarianism And Integrity / Bernard Williams -- Famine, Affluence And Morality/ Peter Singer -- Kantian Ethics -- Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals / Immanuel Kant -- Kantian Approaches To Some Famine Problems / Onora O'neil -- War And Massacre / Thomas Nagel -- Aristotelian Ethtics -- Nichomachean Ethics / Aristotle -- Aristotle's Doctrine Of The Mean/ J. O. Urmson -- Aristotle On Eudaimonia / Thomas Nagel -- Justice -- A Theory Of Justice/ John Rawls -- Justice And Entitlement / Robert Nozick -- Capitalism, Socialism And Justice / Kai Nielsen -- The Subjection Of Women / John Stuart Mill -- John Rawls: Justice As Fairness -- For Whom? / Susan Moller Okin -- The Message Of Affirmative Action / Thomas E. Hill Jr. -- Morality And Self-interest The Republic/ Plato -- An Enquiry Concerning The Principles Of Morals / David Hume -- Morality And Advantage / The Law Of The Jungle: Moral Alternatives And Principles Of Evolution / J.l. Mackie -- The Subjectivity Of Values / J. L. Mackie -- Ethics And Observation / Gilbert Harman -- Moral Explanations / Nicholas L. Sturgeon. Edited By John Perry And Michael Bratman. Includes Bibliographical References.