Rene DesCartes
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
Scepticism and the Problem of Induction
The Sphere of the Doubtful
Y1: Philosophy of Mind
Historical Background
Minds and Bodies as Distinct Substances
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
Arguments for God's Existence: Ontological
Descartes Defends an Ontological Argument
Descartes replies to Critics
Year 2 Backbone: Complete History of Ideas
Modern Philosophy -- Descartes
Y2: Meditating with Descartes
David Hume
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
Scepticism and the Problem of Induction
Sceptical Doubts Concerning the Human Understanding
Body, Mind, and Death
Of Personal Identity
Meaning, Verification, and Metaphysics
Of the Origin of Ideas
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
Arguments for God's Existence: Cosmological
Why is a Cause Always Necessary?
Arguments for God's Existence: Design
We Cannot Know that the World is Designed by God
Year 2 Backbone: Complete History of Ideas
Modern Philosophy -- David Hume
Bertrand Russell
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
Scepticism and the Problem of Induction
On Induction
Moral Judgments
Science and Ethics
The Existence of God
The Existence of God--A Debate
Perception and the Physical World
Physics and Perception
A Reply to Ernest Nagel
A Priori Knowledge
On Our Knowledge of General Principles
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
People and Life after Death
Belief in Life after Death comes from Emotion, not Reason
Thomas Reid
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
Body, Mind, and Death
Of the Nature and Origin of Our Notion of Personal Identity
Moral Judgments
The Moral Faculty and the Principles of Morals
Y3: Pragmatic Common Sense
Thomas Reid
An Inquiry into the Human Mind
Intellectual Powers of Man
Active Powers of the Human Mind
A. J. Ayer
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
Body, Mind, and Death
The Physical Basis of Mind--A Philosophers' Symposium
Moral Judgments
Critique of Ethics
A Priori Knowledge
The A Priori
Meaning, Verification, and Metaphysics
Demonstration of the Impossibility of Metaphysics
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
The Problem of God-Talk
God-Talk is Evidently Nonsense
St. Anselm
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
The Existence of God
The Exists Something Than Which a Greater Cannot Be Thought
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
Arguments for God's Existence: Cosmological
A Concise Cosmological Argument from the 11th Century
Arguments for God's Existence: Ontological
God Cannot Be Thought Not to Exist
Anselm Replies to Gaunilo
Year 2 Backbone: Complete History of Ideas
Medieval: Scholastics and Neoplatonists
Anselm
St. Thomas Aquinas
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
The Existence of God
The Five Ways
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy and Religious Belief
Faith and Reason in Harmony
The Problem of God-Talk
One Way of Understanding God-Talk
Arguments for God's Existence: Cosmological
A 13th-Century Cosmological Argument
Arguments for God's Existence: Design
Is the World Ruled by Providence?
What is God?: Omnipotent
Why Think of God as Omnipotent?
What is God?: Knowing
Why Ascribe Knowledge to God?
What is God?: Eternal
Why Call God 'Eternal'?
What is God?: Simple
A Classic Defence of Divine Simplicity
The Problem of Evil
God and Human Freedom
Y1: Ethics
Foundations: Virtue
Medieval -- Aquinas
Summum Bonum: Thomisticism
Year 2 Backbone: Complete History of Ideas
Medieval: Scholastics and Neoplatonists
Aquinas
Plato
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
A Priori Knowledge
Knowledge as Recollection
Y1: Philosophy of Mind
Historical Background
Souls and Bodies
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
People and Life after Death
Life after Death: an ancient Greek view
Y1: Ethics
Foundations: Divine Command Theory
Euthyphro Dilemma -- Plato
Y1: Ethics
Foundations: Virtue
Platonic
Y1: Ethics
Summum Bonum: Platonism
Year 2 Backbone: Complete History of Ideas
Socrates
Socrates through Plato
Plato
Knowledge as Recollection -- Path to Poria
The Ring of Gyges
The Line
The Cave
The Cycle of Regimes
The Affinity Argument
The Argument from Opposites
Y2: Dialoguing with Plato
First Period
Laches
Charmides
Euthyphro
Lysis
Protagoras
Hippias Minor
Ion
Hippias Major
Apology
Crito
Gorgias
Second Period
Meno
Cratylus
Euthydemus
Menexenus
Symposium
Phaedo
Republic
Phaedrus
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Last Period
Philebus
Timaeus
Kritias
The Laws
Letter 7
G. W. Leibniz
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
A Priori Knowledge
Necessary Truths and the Natural Light within Us
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
Arguments for God's Existence: Cosmological
A 17th-Century Cosmological Argument
Y1: Ethics
Foundations: Divine Command Theory
Omnibenevolence Objections -- Leibniz
Year 2 Backbone: Complete History of Ideas
Modern Philosophy
Rationalism Distinction -- Leibniz
Immanuel Kant
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
A Priori Knowledge
Introduction to the "Critique of Pure Reason"
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
Arguments for God's Existence: Design
The Limits of Design Arguments
Arguments for God's Existence: Ontological
A Classic Repudiation of Ontological Arguments
Morality and Religion
God as a 'Postulate' of Sound Moral Thinking
Y1: Ethics
Foundations: Duty
Kantian Deontology
Foundations: Virtue
Kantian Critique
Summum Bonum: Kantianism
Year 2 Backbone: Complete History of Ideas
19th Century
Kant
Y2: Prolegomena
Introduction
Prolegomena
First Part of the Transcendental Problem
Second Part of the Transcendental Problem
Third Part of the Transcendental Problem
Scholia
Appendix
Donald Davidson
Y1: Philosophy of Mind
Interpretationism
Radical Interpretation
Thought and Talk
Subjectivity and Self-Knowledge
Knowing One's Own Mind
Reduction
Mental Events
Y1: Metaphysics
Causation
Causal Relations
Y1: Epistemology
The Structure of Knowledge and Justification
A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge
Alvin Plantinga
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy and Religious Belief
Religious Belief as 'Properly Basic'
Arguments for God's Existence: Ontological
A Contemporary Defence of Ontological Arguments
Y1: Metaphysics
Modality
Modalities: basic concepts and distinctions
Y1: Epistemology
Warrant: a first approximation
Y3: Plantinga and Bonjour
G. E. M. Anscombe
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
Arguments for God's Existence: Cosmological
'Whatever Has a Beginning of Existence Must Have a Cause'
Y1: Metaphysics
Causation
Causality and Determination
Y1: Ethics
Foundations: Utility
Criticisms -- Anscombe
Foundations: Virtue
Contemporary Revival -- Anscombe: Modern Moral Philosophy
Paul Edwards
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
All Introductory Sections
The Ontological Status of Persons
Year 1 Backbone: Introduction to Philosophy
The Existence of God
Kierkegaard and the "Truth" of Christianity
Meaning, Verification, and Metaphysics
Why?
Y1: Philosophy of Religion
Arguments for God's Existence: Cosmological
Objections to Cosmological Arguments
Socrates
Y1: Ethics
Foundations: Virtue
Greeks -- Socrates
Year 2 Backbone: Complete History of Ideas
Socrates
Socrates Through Aristophanes
Socrates Through Xenophon
Socrates Through Plato
Socrates Through Nietzsche
Socrates Through Daemon
Socrates Through Historical Context
Socrates Through Alcibiades and Critias
Socratic Ideas -- The Thing-In-Itself
Socratic Ideas -- The Elenchus
Socratic Ideas -- Aporia
Socratic Ideas -- Eironeia
Socrates Through Narrative
Socrates -- The Problem with the Method?
Socrates -- The Arche
Y2: Dialoguing with Plato
First Period
Laches
Charmides
Euthyphro
Lysis
Protagoras
Hippias Minor
Ion
Hippias Major
Apology
Crito
Gorgias
Second Period
Meno
Cratylus
Euthydemus
Menexenus
Symposium
Phaedo
Republic
Phaedrus
Parmenides
Theaetetus
Last Period
Philebus
Timaeus
Kritias
Letter 7
Aristotle
Y1: Philosophy of Mind
Historical Background
The Soul as Bodily Organization
Y1: Ethics
Foundations: Virtue
Greeks -- Aristotle
Summum Bonum: Aristotelianism
Year 2 Backbone: Complete History of Ideas
Aristotle
The Third Man
Some Speculation Necessary
Hylomorphism
Distinctions, Distinctions, Distinctions!
Logic
Nicomachean Ethics
Metaphilosophical Poetry: THe Pattern Established Now
On Dreams
