Class Materials
Common Sense Philosophy 101© Online Text
- Chapter A: What Is Philosophy, and the importance of Arguments?
- Chapter B: Intro to Free Will & Determinism & Summary of Holback, Stace, & Ayer
- Chapter C: Intro to Compatibilism. Hume on Free Will
- Chapter D: Hume: The Origin of Ideas & The Problem of Induction
- Chapter E: Solutions to Hume’s Problem of Induction?
- Chapter F: Descartes: Meditation I – Absolute Skepticism
- Chapter G: Descartes’ Meditation II – The Cogito and Dualism
- Chapter H: Cartesian Dualism to Wittgenstein
- Chapter I: The Ontological Argument - Anselm & Descartes
- Chapter J: Aquinas' Five Ways
- Chapter K: Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, 2 – 8
- Chapter L: Hume’s Dialogues, Part 9 to 12
- Chapter M: The Problem of Evil and Goodness
- Chapter N: Clifford’s Ethics of Belief
- Chapter O: Justifying Unwarranted Belief
- Chapter P: Hume and Paine on Miracles
- Chapter Q: Thomas Hobbes and Social Contract Theory
- Chapter R: Ethical Relativism
- Chapter S: Mill and Utilitarianism
- Chapter T: Mill and Freedom of Thought and Expression
- Chapter U: Immanuel Kant
- Chapter V: John Rawls, Justice as Fairness
- Chapter W: Singer and the Needy
- Chapter X: The Euthyphro by Plato
- Chapter Y: Variations on the Euthyphro
- Chapter Z: Socrates' Last Days
Philosophical Library
- David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Paul Holbach: Of the System of Man's free agency
- Bertrand Russel: The Problems of Philosophy
- David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
- David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Charles MacKay: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- Réné Descartes: The Method, Meditations, and Philosophy: Full Work Retyped w/o Introduction (easier to read)
- Réné Descartes: The Method, Meditations, and Philosophy: Full Book Scan (Harder to read, includes book length introduction)
- Darwin's Origin of Species
- Ernst Haeckel Radolarian
- Ingersoll: Trial for Blasphemy
- Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason
- Thomas Hobbes: The Leviathan
- J.S. Mill: Socialism
- J.S. Mill: On Liberty
- J.S. Mill: Utilitarianism
- J.S. Mill: Subjection of Women
- Mark Twain: The Facts Concerning The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
- Mark Twain: The Mysterious Stranger
- Immanuel Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Geneology of Morals
- Jeremy Bentham: Intro to Principles of Morals
- Epictetus: The Enchiridion
- William J. Holly: Destructing Causal Deconstruction
- William J. Holly: Is Reason More a Weapon Than a Path to Truth?
- William J. Holly: Merry Christmas (Or, The Gift You Can't Exhange-It's an Absolutely Perfect Fit!)
- William J. Holly: The Truth Fairy
- John Foxe: Foxe's Book of Martyrs