Introduction to Philosophy - Readings
An Introduction to Philosophy
What is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant
Apology by Plato
Epistemology
Meditations 1 and 2 by Rene Descartes
Philosophy and the Matrix by Christopher Grau
A Skeptical Manifesto by Michael Shermer
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? by Edmund Gettier
The New Riddle of Induction by Nelson Goodman
Metaphysics
Essay on the Freedom of the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer
Compatibilism by W.T. Stace
Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility by Harry Frankfurt
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality by John Perry
Feminist Perspectives on the Self by Diana Meyers
Is There Anything Good About Men? by Roy Baumeister
A Critique of Dualism by Paul Churchland
Philosophical Behaviorism by John Heil
Minds, Brains, and Programs by John Searle
Why People Think Computers Can't by Marvin Minsky
Philosophy of Religion
Religious Experience and the Existence of God by R. Swinburne
The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe by W. Craig
The Five Ways by Thomas Aquinas
Pascal’s Wager by Blaise Pascal
The Improbability of God by Richard Dawkins
Molecular Machines by Michael Behe
Allowing for Evil by John Hick
Ethics
Relativism by Allen Wood
Euthyphro by Plato
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
The Principle of Utility by Jeremy Bentham
Higher and Lower Pleasures by John Stuart Mill
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle