Knowledge, Nature, and Norms

Part I: INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY. Part II: PERSONAL IDENTITY AND IMMORTALITY. Introduction. 1. F. Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, "The Meeting." 2. Plato, "Phaedo." 3. Clarence Darrow, "The Myth of the Soul." 4. John Locke, "The Prince and the Cobbler." 5. John Perry, "Personal Identity and Immortality." 6. Derek Parfit, "The Unimportance of Identity." Part III: THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM. Introduction. 1. Terry Bisson, "They're Made out of Meat." 2. Curt Ducasse, "In Defense of Dualism." 3. Paul M. Churchland, "Dualism: For and Against." 4. Jerry A. Fodor, "The Mind-Body Problem." 5. John Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Machines." 6. David J. Chalmers, "The Problem of Conscious Experience." Part IV: FREE WILL, DETERMINISM, AND RESPONSIBILITY. Introduction. 1. Clarence Darrow, "Leopold and Loeb." 2. Baron d'Holbach, "The Illusion of Free Will." 3. C. A. Campbell, "Has the Self 'Free Will'?" 4. Walter T. Stace, "The Problem of Free Will." 5. Galen Strawson, "The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility." 6. P. F. Strawson, "Freedom and Resentment." Part V:THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. Introduction. 1. Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Rebellion." 2. Anselm, "The Ontological Argument"; Gaunilo, "The Lost Island Objection." 3. Thomas Aquinas, "The Cosmological Argument." 4. William Paley, "The Teleological Argument." 5. William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, "The Evidence of Miracles: an Exchange Between a Christian and an Atheist." 6. Blaise Pascal, "The Wager." 7. Simon Blackburn, "God." 8. David Hume, "The Problem of Evil." 9. Eleonore Stump, "The Mirror of Evil." Part VI: KNOWLEDGE, SKEPTICISM, AND BELIEF. Introduction. 1. John L. Pollock, "A Brain in a Vat." 2. Rene Descartes, "The Sphere of the Doubtful." 3. G.E. Moore, "Certainty." 4. Peter Unger, "A Defense of Skepticism." 5. William K. Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief." 6. Peter van Inwagen, "Is it Wrong, Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything upon Insufficient Evidence?" Part VII: ETHICS. Introduction. 1. Plato, "The Myth