I God
Intorduction:
1: Derek Parfit: Why Anything? Why This?
2: Thomas Aquinas: The five ways
3: William Paley: Extract from Natural Theology
4: Anselm of Canterbury: Extract from Proslogion
5: G.W. Leibniz: Extract from Monadology
6: J.L. Mackie: Evil and omnipotence
II Realism and Idealism
Introduction
7: John Locke: Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
8: George Berkeley: Selection from Three Dialogues
9: Immanuel Kant: Selection from Critique of Pure Reason
10: Selection from Matter and Sense
11: Michael Dummett: Realism
III Being
Introduction
12: Aristotle: Selection from Categories
13: John Locke: Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
14: Robert Merrihew Adams: Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity
15: W.V. Quine: On what there is
16: Peter van Inwagen: Selection from Material Beings
17: Gareth Evans: Can there be vague objects?
18: David Lewis: Vague Identity: Evans misunderstood
IV Universals and Particulars
Introduction
19: Plato: Selections from Republic and Parmenides
20: D.M. Armstrong: Selection from Universals: An Opinionated Introduction
21: David Lewis: Selection from New work for a theory of universals
22: Donald C. Williams: On the Elements of Being: I
23: Sydney Shoemaker: Causality and Properties
V Necessity
Introduction
24: Saul Kripke: Selection from Naming and Necessity
25: David Lewis: Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds
26: Alvin Plantinga: Actualism and Possible Worlds
27: D.M. Armstrong: Selection from A Combinational Theory of Possibility
VI Causation
Introduction
28: Aristotle: Selection from Metaphysics
29: David Hume: Selection from Enquiy Concerning Human Understanding
30: David Lewis: Causation
31: Donald Davidson: Causal Relations
32: D.H. Mellor: Selections from The Faces of Causation
VII Time and Space
Introduction
33: Aristotle: Selection from Physics
34: J.M.E McTaggart: Selection from The Nature of Existence
35: Arthur N. Prior: Changes in Events and Changes in Things
36: Paul Horwich: Selection from Asymmetries in Time
37: Selection from The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
38: J.J.C. Smart: The space-time world
39: David Lewis: The Paradoxes of Time Travel
Part VIII Identity
Introduction
40: Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Time
41: David Lewis: Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds
42: Derek Parfit: Personal Identity
43: P.F. Snowdon: Persons, Animals, and Ourselves
Part IX Mind and Body
Introduction
44: Rene Descartes: Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy
45: G.W. Leibniz: Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances
46: Gilbert Harman: Selections from Thought
47: David Lewis: Psychophysical and theoretical identifications
48: Donald Davidson: Selection from Thinking Causes
49: Thomas Nagel: What is it like to be a bat?
X Freedom and Determinism
Introduction
50: David Hume: Selection from Treatise of Human Nature
51: Harry Frankfurt: Freedom of the will and the concept of a person
52: Peter van Inwagen: The incompatibility of freewill and determinism
53: Barry Loewer: Freedom from Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Free Will
54: Roderick M. Chisholm: Human Freedom and the self
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