introductiontophilosophy-readings

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

Anslem's Proslogium

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