Introduction to Philosophy

Required and Suggested Readings

Required Readings

• Reason and Responsibility, Feinberg & Shafer-Landau, 12th ed.
• A Rulebook for Arguments, 3rd ed., Weston

Suggested Readings

Knowledge of the External World
• Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume
• Abusing Science, Kitcher
• Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith, Kitcher

Free Will and Determinism
• A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will, Kane
• The Illusion of Conscious Will, Wegner
• Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will, Baer
• The Myth of Free Will, Evatt

Theories of God's Existence and Problem of Evil
• Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction, Rowe
• Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works
• Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings
• Natural Theology, Paley
• An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Hume
• Pensees and Other Writings, Pascal
• Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God, Perry
• The Existence of God, Swinburne
• God and the Problem of Evil, Rowe

Personal Identity
• Personal Identity (Topics in Philosophy), Perry
• Personal Identity (Great Debates in Philosophy), Shoemaker
• Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke
• A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality, Perry
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume

Other Fun Stuff
• Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone
• Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosopy Through Jokes

• Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
• The Seven Deadly Sins Set: Consisting of Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Anger, and Pride