The experience of philosophy

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Beginning Philosophy. The trial of Socrates / Plato

Obedience to authority / Stanley Milgram

The function of education / Jiddu Krishnamurti

The value of philosophy / Bertrand Russell

Where and When. Flatland / Edwin Abbottt

The incredible shrinking Zeno / Daniel Kolak and David Goloff

Where am I? / Daniel Dennett

On the idea of time in physics / Albert Einstein

Time travel: the rules of the road / Kadri Vihvelin

Who. Descartes among the ruins / Daniel Kolak

On having no self / Buddha

On having no head / D.E. Harding

On self and substance / Ren Descartes

Personal identity / John Locke

Personal identity / David Hume

Critique of Locke and Hume on behalf of common sense / Thomas Reid

Personal identity from Plato to Parfit / Raymond Martin

The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Trans or me? / Adam and Linda Parascandola

Freedom. THe illusion of free will / Baon Holbach

Liberty and neccessity / David Hume

The dilemma of determinism / William James

Free will / G.E. Moore

Freedom and determinism / Richard Taylor

Existentialism and human freedom / Jean-Paul Sartre

Knowledge. Knowledge / Plato

Meditations / Ren Descartes

Where our ideas come from / John Locke

To be is to be perceived / George Berkeley

Perception, knowledge, and induction / Bertrand Russell

The infinite regress of reasons / D.M. Armstrong

God. The ontological argument / Anselm

The five ways and the doctrine of analogy / Thomas Aquinas

The wager / Blaise Pascal

The ethics of belief / W.K. Clifford

THe will to believe / William James

God and evil / David Hume

Must God create the best? / Robert Merrihew Adams

The elusive Messiah / Raymond Martin

Religion from an African perspective / Kwasi Wiredu

Memorial service / H.L. Mencken

Does anyone really believe in God? An exchange / Georges Rey and Christopher Bernard

Reality. Causation, reality, and fiction / David Hume (cont'd) Considerations on the universe as a whole / Albert Einstein

Tractatus logico-phiosophicus / Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fiction / Robert Nozick

Quantum cosmology, the anthropic prinsiple, and why is there something rather than nothing? / Daniel Kolak

The puzzel of reality: why does the universe exist? / Derek Parfit

Experience. Of sense and imagination / Thomas Hobbes

Experience and understanding / John Locke

The sense / David Hume

Percepts and concepts / Immanuel Kant

A cofffeehouse conversation on the turing test / Douglas R. Hofstadter

A simple guide to contemporar philosophy of mind / Garrett Thomson and Philip Turetzky

Observation: what's wrong with the standard account and how it can be fixed / Sara Vollmer

Consciousness. The selfish gene / Richard Dawkins

The story of a brain / Arnold Zuboff

What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel

Epiphenomenal Qualia / Frank Jackson

The reality of color / Melinda Roberts

Death. Death and immortality / Plato

Of the immortality of the soul / David Hume

Survival of bodily death: a question of values / Raymond Martin

Death, nothingness, and subjectivity / Thomas W. Clark

The wine is in the glass / Daniel Kolak

Meaning. My confession / Leo Tolstoy

The myth of sisyphus / Albert Camus

Is life meaningful? / Richard Taylor

A fast car and a good woman / Raymond Martin

Ethics. The categorical imperative / Immanuel Kant

Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill

Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche

The rights of women / Mary Wollstonecraft

The conscious of Huckleberry Finn / Jonathan Bennett

The metaphysics of anti-Semitism / John White

Amoralism / Richard Garner

Values. The myth of Gyges's ring / Plato

Virtue and character / Aristotle

On liberty / John Stuart Mill

Openness / Jonathan Glover

Intrinsic Value / G.E. Moore (cont'd) Epilog: Concluding Unphilosophical Postscript. A portrait of the philosopher as a young man / Robert Nozick

On becoming a philosopher / Freeman Dyson