Schedule of Readings for Introduction to Philosophy, Honors

• Epistemology 1/15 - 2/16
  • Plato, Meno
  • Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    • 2: Of the Origin of Ideas
    • 3: Of the Association of Ideas
    • 4: Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding
    • 5: Sceptical Solution of these Doubts, Part I
    • 9: Of the Reason of Animals
    • 10: Of Miracles
    • 12: Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy
• Axiology 2/19 - 3/29
  • Nagel, Mortal Questions
    • 1: Death
    • 5: War and Massacre
  • Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
    • "On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns"
    • Preface
    • 1: Transition from the Ordinary Rational Knowledge of Morality to the Philosophical
    • 2: Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to a Metaphysics of Morals
  • Nagel, Mortal Questions
    • 2: Moral Luck
    • 6: Ruthlessness in Public Life
    • 7: The Policy of Preference
    • 8: Equality
    • 9: The Fragmentation of Value
• Metaphysics 4/1 - 5/1
  • Searle, Minds, Brains and Science
    • 1: The Mind-Body Problem
  • Nagel, Mortal Questions
    • 13: Panpsychism
    • 11: Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness
    • 12: What is it like to be a bat?
  • Searle, Minds, Brains and Science
    • 2: Can Computers Think?
    • 6: The Freedom of the Will
  • Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    • 8: Of Liberty and Necessity
  • Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
    • 3: Transition from a Metaphysics of Morals to a Critique of Pure Practical Reason
  • Nagel, Mortal Questions
    • 14: Subjective and Objective

This schedule is subject to change.