unreasonable.

Excerpts

• Julia Annas on Virtue Ethics
• Anselm’s Ontological Argument
• Aquinas: the Five Ways
• Aquinas on Omnipotence
• Aquinas on Faith and Reason
• Aristotle: Man is a Political Animal
• Aristotle: the Function Argument
• Aristotle: the Doctrine of the Mean
• Aristotle on Virtue
• Augustine on his Conversion
• Anita Avramides: the Argument from Analogy
• Bentham on the Principle of Utility
• Bentham on the Hedonic Calculus
• Berkeley on the Colour of Clouds
• Berkeley on the Primary/Secondary Quality Distinction
• Berkeley’s ‘Master Argument’
• Blackburn on Moral Relativism
• Ned Block’s Chinese Mind
• Boethius on Eternity
• David Chalmers on Consciousness
• David Chalmers on Philosophical Zombies
• Patricia Churchland on Ontological Reduction
• Paul Churchland on Folk Psychology
• Patricia Churchland on Elimination
• Catherine Trotter Cockburn on Perception
• Richard Dawkins on Simplicity
• Descartes on the Method
• Descartes on Dreaming
• Descartes: the Cogito
• Descartes’ Three Waves of Doubt
• Descartes on God
• Descartes’ Cosmological Argument
• Descartes on the Mind
• Descartes’ Arguments for Dualism
• Descartes: The Piece of Wax
• Cora Diamond on Eating Animals
• Elisabeth of Bohemia and Descartes on Interaction
• Epicurus on Death
• Flew, Mitchell and Hare: the University debate
• Philippa Foot on hypothetical imperatives
• Freud on Religion
• Gettier on Knowledge
• Hare’s Prescriptivism
• Hick: the ‘Soul-making’ Theodicy
• Hick: the Parable of the Celestial City
• Hobbes on the State of Nature
• Hume on the Is/Ought distinction
• Hume on Impressions and Ideas
• Hume’s fork
• Hume on the self
• Hume on the Missing Shade of Blue
• Hume on Scepticism
• Hume on the Notion of Morals
• Hume on Design
• Hume on Necessary Existence
• Hume on the Problem of Evil
• Frank Jackson: the Knowledge Argument
• Frank Jackson defends epiphenomenalism
• Kant on a Good Will
• Leibniz on Innate Ideas
• Leibniz on the Principle of Sufficient Reason
• Leibniz’ Cosmological Argument
• Locke on Personal Identity
• Locke on Primary and Secondary Qualities
• Locke on Innate Ideas
• Locke and Leibniz on Warmth
• Locke and Leibniz on Resemblance
• Locke on involuntary sensations
• Locke on the ‘tabula rasa’
• Lucretius on the void
• Maimonides: 13 Articles of Faith
• Maimonides on the Via Negativa
• Malcolm’s Ontological Argument
• Mary Midgley on Wickedness
• Mill’s Proof of Utilitarianism
• Mill on Higher and Lower Pleasures
• Mill on Christian Morality
• Mill on Nature
• Moore on the Naturalistic Fallacy
• Nietzsche on the Death of God
• Nietzsche: two ideas
• Nozick: the Experience Machine
• Paley: The Watchmaker
• Pico della Mirandola on the Dignity of Man
• Plantinga: the Free Will Defence
• Plato: Gyges’ Ring
• Plato: The Allegory of the Cave
• Plato on knowledge and true belief
• Plato on innate knowledge
• Putnam on Super-Spartans
• Putnam and Smart on Mind-Brain Identity
• Putnam on Functionalism
• Ross on Prima Facie Duties
• Rousseau: In Praise of Ignorance
• Russell and the table
• Russell on the external world
• Ryle on the ‘official doctrine’
• Ryle on Category Mistakes
• Ryle on Dispositions
• Michael Sandel on Outsourcing Pregnancy
• Sartre on Ethics
• Sidgwick: Government House Utilitarianism
• Peter Singer on Bioethics
• Peter Singer on Killing Animals
• Peter Singer on the Drowning Child
• Galen Strawson on Free Will
• Peter Strawson on Resentment
• Stump and Kretzmann on Eternity
• Swinburne on Design
• Tao Te Ching
• Judith Jarvis Thomson on Abortion
• Alan Turing: Can Machines Think?
• Bernard Williams on integrity
• Wittgenstein on Philosophy
• Wittgenstein’s beetle
• Zagzebski: What is Knowledge?