Assigned Readings

Week 1

Locke - On Secondary Qualities

Week 2

Descartes - Meditations On First Philosophy (I and II)

Moore - Proof Of An External World

Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (IV and V)

Week 3

Perry - A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality

Week 4

Searle - The Chinese Room

Block - The China Brain

Jackson - The Qualia Problem

Nagel - What Is It Like To Be A Bat?

Week 6

Pascal - The Wager

Clarke - The Cosmological Argument

Week 7

Rowe - The Problem of Evil

Week 8

Holbach - The Illusion of Free Will

Week 9

Frankfurt - Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility

Van Inwagen - Freedom of the Will

Nagel - Moral Luck

Week 10

Rachels - The Challenge of Cultural Relativism

Plato - The Euthyphro

Week 11

Mill - Utilitarianism

Rachels - Debate Over Utilitarianism

Dupre - Prima Facie Duties

Ross - What Makes Right Actions Right?

Week 12

Greene - The Trolley Problem

Week 13

Singer - Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Week 15

Norcross - Puppies, Pigs, and People

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