Philosophy of Religion
Plato - The Apology
St. Thomas Aquinas - The Five Ways
William Rowe - An Examination of the Cosmological Argument
William Paley - The Watch and the Watchmaker
David Hume - A Critique of the Teleological Argument
St. Anselm and Gaunilo - The Ontological Argument
Immanuel Kant - A Critique of the Ontological Argument
J.L. Mackie - Evil and Omnipotence
John Hick - There is a Reason Why God Allows EvilPhilosophy of Mind
René Descartes - Dualistic Interactionism
Gilbert Ryle - Exorcising Descartes' "Ghost in the Machine"
J. P. Moreland - A Contemporary Defense of Dualism
Richard Taylor - Burying the Mind-Body Problem
John Locke - Our Psychological Properties Define the Self
David Hume - We Have No Substantial Self With Which We Are Identical
Derek Parfit and Godfrey Vesey - Brain Transplants and Personal IdentityEpistemology
Plato - Theaetetus
Edmund L. Gettier - Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
John Pollock - The Gettier Problem
René Descartes - Cartesian Doubt
John Locke - The Empiricist Theory of Knowledge
George Berkeley - An Idealist Theory of Knowledge (in Pojman 148-156)
David Hume - The Origin of Our Ideas and Skepticism about Causal Reasoning (in Pojman 157-165)
W. K. Clifford - The Ethics of Belief (in Pojman 91-96)
Bertrand Russell - The Value of Philosophy (in Pojman 18-22)
Philosophy of Religion
Plato - The Apology
St. Thomas Aquinas - The Five Ways
William Paley - Excerpts from Natural Theology
David Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Read Part II [143-150] and all of Part V.)
St. Anselm - Excerpts from Proslogium (Read Chapters II-IV)
Gaunilo's Reply (Read Point #6)
St. Anselm's Rejoinder (Read Chapter III)
Immanuel Kant - Excerpts from The Critique of Pure Reason (Read Chapter III Section 4)Philosophy of Mind
John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Read 6,8-12,15-16,20-21)
René Descartes - Meditation II (Read 7-16)
Meditation III (Read 1)
Meditation VI (Read 8-13,18-20)
Passions of the Soul (34th Article)
David Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature (Read Book 1 Part 4 Section VI)Epistemology
Plato - Theaetetus René Descartes - Meditation I (Read all)
Meditation II (Read 1-8)John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(Introduction: Read 1-3)
(Book I Chapter I: Read 1-5)
(Book II Chapter I: Read 1-6)
(Book II Chapter VIII: Read 8-10,13-16,21)
(Book II Chapter XI: Read 8-9)
(Book IV Chapter II: Read 1-5,14)
(Book IV Chapter XI: Read 1-5)
(Book IV Chapter XV: Read 1-2,5)George Berkeley - Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Read 171-213) David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
(Section II)
(Section IV)
(Section V Part I)W. K. Clifford - The Ethics of Belief (Read Section I) Bertrand Russell - The Value of Philosophy (Chapter 15)