Knowledge, Existence and Values

KNOWLEDGE, EXISTENCE AND VALUE

Simon Blackburn, Think. A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999.
Richard Double, Beginning Philosophy, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999.

Simon Blackburn, Think. chap. 1.
Adam Morton, A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge, 3^rd ed., Blackwell, Oxford and New York, 1997.
Jonathan Dancy, An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Blackwell, Oxford and New York, 1985.

Text of the Meditations on First Philosophy
Simon Blackburn, Think. chap. 1, pp. 15-48.
Tom Sorell, Descartes, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987.
John Cottingham (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Descartes, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1992.
Descartes in Philosophy pages

Text of "Some Further Considerations Concerning Our Simple Ideas of Sensation" from the Essay on Human Understanding
V. Chappell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Locke, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1994.
John Dunn, Locke, Oxford University Press, New York, 1984, chapter on knowledge.
Nicholas Jolley, Locke. His Philosophical Thought, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999.
Locke in Philosophy pages

Text of Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Simon Blackburn, Think. chap. 7, pp. 243-253.
Jonathan Dancy, Berkeley: An Introduction, Blackwell, Oxford and New York, 1987.
J.O. Urmson, Berkeley, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982.
Berkeley in Philosophy pages

Text of "Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses", from A Treatise of Human Nature
Robert Fogelin, Hume's Skepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature, Routledge, 1985, chaps. 6-7.
Carl Brock, Hume on the Continuity and Independence of the Objects of Perception
Text of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Barry Stroud, Hume, Routledge, London, 1977.
David Fate Norton (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hume, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1991.
Hume in Philosophy pages

Simon Blackburn, Think. chap. 2.
Paul Churchland, Matter and Consciousness. A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, revised edition, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1988.
John Searle, Mind, Language and Society, Basic Books, New York, 1999, chap. 2.

Stephen Thornton, Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds
Adam Morton, A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge, 3^rd ed., Blackwell, Oxford and New York, 1997, chap. 7 "Knowledge of Minds"
Jonathan Dancy, An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Blackwell, Oxford and New York, 1985, chap. 5 "Foundationalism and Other Minds"
Paul Churchland, Matter and Consciousness , chap. 4.1 and 2.2.

Simon Blackburn, Think, chap. 4.
John Perry (ed.), Personal Identity, University of California Press, LA-Berkeley, 1975.
Amelie Rorty (ed.), The Identities of Persons, University of California Press, LA-Berkeley, 1978.

James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, 3^rd ed., McGraw Hill, New York, 1999.
Simon Blackburn, Being Good., A short Introduction to Ethics, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.
Kurt Baier, The Moral Point of View, Cornell University Press, Cornell, 1958.
Harry J. Gensler, Ethics, Routledge, Oxford, 1998.
Gilbert Harman, The Nature of Morality, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977.
J.L. Mackie, Ethics. Inventing Right and Wrong, Penguin, 1977.
Peter Singer (ed.), A Companion to Ethics, Blackwell, 1993.

James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, chap. 2.
Gilbert Harman, “Is There a Single True Morality?”, in Michael Krausz (ed.), Relativism: Interpretation and Confrontation, Notre Dame, 1989.
Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson, Moral relativism and moral objectivity, Blackwell, 1996.
Hugh LaFollette, “The Truth in Ethical Relativism” (http://www.etsu-tn.edu/philos/faculty/hugh/relative.htm)
Ethical Relativism

James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, chap. 3.
Gilbert Harman, The Nature of Morality, Oxford, 1977, chapters 3 and 4.
Bernard Williams, Morality. An Introduction to Ethics, Cambridge, 1972.
J.L. Mackie, Ethics. Inventing Right and Wrong, Penguin, 1977, chapter 1.
Charles Stevenson, “The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms”, Steven M. Cahn and Peter Markie, Ethics. History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998.
Metaethical Concerns

James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, chap. 5-6.
Kelly Rogers (ed.), Self-Interest. An Anthology of Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge, New York-London, 1997.
Feinberg, “Psychological egoism”, Steven M. Cahn and Peter Markie, Ethics. History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998.
Gilbert Harman, The Nature of Morality, chapter 12.
C.D. Broad, “Egoism as a Theory of Human Motives”, in P.W. Taylor, Problems of Moral Philosophy. An Introduction to Ethics, Wadsworth, 1978.
Brian Medlin, “Ultimate Principles and Ethical Egoism”, in Taylor, Problems of Moral Philosophy.

James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, chap. 7-8
Anthony Quinton, Utilitarian Ethics, Open Court, 1973.
J.J.C. Smart and Bernard Williams, Utilitarianism. For and Against, Cambridge, 1973.
Gilbert Harman, The Nature of Morality, Oxford, 1977, chapter 13.
Utilitarianism

James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, chap. 9-10.
Roger Sullivan, An Introduction to Kant’s Ethics, Cambridge, 1994.
Gilbert Harman, The Nature of Morality, Oxford, 1977, chapter 6.
Onora O'Neill, "A Simplified Account of Kant's Ethics", in Tom Regan (ed.), Matters of Life and Death, McGraw-Hill, 1986.
Kant and Deontology