Susan Wolf

http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil150/Wolf.pdf

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Part ONE. Introduction

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Chapter ONE. What Is Philosophy?

A Definition of Philosophy:

• Philosophy Pages:  http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/
• UNC Philosophy Links:  http://philosophy.unc.edu/graduate/philosophy-links/
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:  http://www.iep.utm.edu/

1.2. What Is Rationality?

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu, Tr. Burton Watson:  http://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html

1.3. Reading Philosophy

1.4. Does Philosophy Bake Bread?

BERTRAND RUSSELL: On the Value of Philosophy:

• http://www.skepdic.com/russell.html

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy:  https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jksadegh/A%20Good%20Atheist%20Secularist%20Skeptical%20Book%20Collection/The%20Problems%20of%20Philosophy%20-%20Bertrand%20Russell%20-%20secure.pdf

Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at ebook Academic Subscription/EBSCOhost.

McMaster University, The Bertrand Russell Archives:  http://www.mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm

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Chapter TWO. Thinking and Writing Philosophically

2.1. A Little Logic

University of Oxford, Introduction to Logic:  http://logic.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/main.htm

2.2. How to Write Philosophy

UNC, Writing Center:  http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/philosophy/

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Part TWO. Value Theory (Axiology)

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Chapter THREE. How Should One Live?

3.1. Introduction

Bernard Williams Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy:  https://butterflyweeds.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/bernard_williams_ethics_and_the_limits_of_philosbookos-org.pdf

John Kekes The Morality Of Pluralism:  http://www.jstor.org/stable/2382353?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents, Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at ebook Academic Subscription/EBSCOhost.

3.2. The Buddha and the Middle Way
THE BUDDHA: The Four Noble Truths

• Discourses of the Buddha, Tr: Maurice Walshe:  http://lirs.ru/lib/sutra/Long_Discourses_of_the_Buddha%28Digha_Nikaya%29.Walshe.pdf, http://www.andrew-may.com/zendynamics/thus.htm

WALPOLA RAHULA: The Fourth Noble Truth

• What the Buddha Taught: http://site.uwestonline.com/file.php/1/WhatTheBuddhaTaughtRevisedEdition.pdf

3.3. Confucius and the Life of Virtue
D. C. LAU: Confucius and Moral Character

• The Analects, Sayings of Confucius:  http://studenthjelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Analects-the-Sayings-of-Confucius.pdf
• Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at ebook Academic Subscription/EBSCOhost.

3.4. Socrates on Living the Examined Life
PLATO: The Apology

 

• http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html
• http://shop.mheducation.com/highered/product.M0767410335.html

3.5. Aristotle on Happiness and the Life of Moderation
ARISTOTLE: Nicomachean Ethics

• Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at ebook Academic Subscription/EBSCOhost.
• http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html

3.6. The Song of God
VED VYASA Bhagavad-Gita:

• Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at ebook Academic Subscription/EBSCOhost.
• http://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/
• http://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/1

 

3.7. What Is the Meaning of Life?
SUSAN WOLF: Meaning in Life:

• http://philosophybites.com/2010/07/susan-wolf-on-meaning-in-life.html
• http://dbanach.com/sisyphus.htm
• http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil150/Wolf.pdf

 

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Chapter FOUR. How Can I Know What Is Right?

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Kant and the Categorical Imperative:

IMMANUEL KANT: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

• Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at ebook Academic Subscription/EBSCO
• http://www.justiceharvard.org/resources/immanuel-kant-groundwork-for-the-metaphysics-of-morals-1785/
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral/

4.3. Utilitarianism
JOHN STUART MILL: What Utilitarianism Is:

• http://www.utilitarianism.com/mill1.htm
• Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at ebook Academic Subscription/EBSCOhost.

4.4. Revaluation of Values

• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: Beyond Good and Evil

• http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4363/4363-h/4363-h.htm

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: On the Genealogy of Morality

• http://www.inp.uw.edu.pl/mdsie/Political_Thought/GeneologyofMorals.pdf

4.5. The Divine Command Theory
AL-ASHARI: The Theology of Al-Ashari

http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ei2/ashari.htm

KAI NIELSEN: Ethics Without God

• http://www.mesacc.edu/~barsp59601/text/105/notes/deontology/nielsen.html
• http://www.reasonablefaith.org/does-god-exist-the-craig-nielsen-debate

4.6. The Ethic of Care
VIRGINIA HELD: Justice, Utility, and Care

http://www.iep.utm.edu/care-eth/

4.7. Moral Relativism
LOUIS P. POJMAN: A Critique of Ethical Relativism

• http://afterall.net/papers/a-critique-of-ethical-relativism/
• http://www.mesacc.edu/~barsp59601/text/105/notes/intro/pojman.html
• http://www.nyu.edu/classes/gmoran/POJMAN.pdf

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Chapter FIVE. What Makes a Society Just?

5.1. Introduction

5.2. God and Justice
KHALED ABOU EL FADL: Islam and Democracy

• Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at ebook Academic Subscription/EBSCOhost. Search for:  Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Author: Abou El Fadl, Khaled, Chasman, Deborah, Cohen, Joshua, Date: 2004

5.3. Capitalism and Exploitation
KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS: Manifesto of the Communist Party

• Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at ebook Academic Subscription/EBSCOhost.
• https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

5.4. The Original Position
JOHN RAWLS: A Theory of Justice

• http://www.ohio.edu/people/piccard/entropy/rawls.html
• Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at EBSCO ebook Academic.
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/

5.5. Our Obligation to the State
PLATO: Crito

• http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html

5.6. Civil Disobedience
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: Letter from Birmingham Jail

• https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/letter-birmingham-jail

5.7. God is Red
VINE DELORIA, JR.: Sacred Places and Moral Responsibility

• God is red: a native view of religion Vine Deloria;c1994 Available at Ventura College Main Stacks – Library (BL2776 .D44 1992 )

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Chapter SIX. Is Justice for All Possible?

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Sexism, Racism, and Homophobia

BELL HOOKS: Ain’t I a Woman

• Ain’t I a woman : Black women and feminism, Bell Hooks;c1981, Available at OXNARD Circulating Book (HQ1410.H6 1981 )
• https://hamtramckfreeschool.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/hooks-bell-aint-i-a-woman-black-woman-and-feminism.pdf

CORNEL WEST: Race Matters

• Race matters, Cornel West; c1993, Available at Ventura College Main Stacks – Library (E185.615 .W43 1993 )

SUZANNE PHARR: Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism

 

• http://suzannepharr.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/homophobiaaweaponofsexismcondensed.pdf

6.3. Illegal Immigration
REGINALD WILLIAMS: A Case for Residency

6.4. Globalization and Justice
PETER SINGER: One World: The Ethics of Globalization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEcsl7gQchE

6.5. Terrorism and Morality
BAT-AMI BAR ON: Why Terrorism Is Morally Problematic

6.6. Philosophy in a Time of Terror
JÜRGEN HABERMAS: Fundamentalism and Terror

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/066649.html

6.7. The Problem of Too Many People
GARRETT HARDIN: The Tragedy of the Commons

http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of_the_commons.html

6.8. Animal Rights
TOM REGAN: The Case for Animal Rights

• http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/regan03.htm
• http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/philosophy/animals/regan-text.html

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Chapter SEVEN. What Is Aesthetic Value?

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Art as Experience
JOHN DEWEY: Having an Experience

• https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/an-experience.htm

7.3. Women and Art
LINDA NOCHLIN: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

• http://www.miracosta.edu/home/gfloren/nochlin.htm

7.4. Zen Culture
D. T. SUZUKI: Japanese Culture and Art

• Zen and Japanese culture. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki 1870-1966.; 1970, c1959. Available at Ventura College Main Stacks – Library (BQ 9262.9 .J3 S89 1970)

7.5. The End of Art and the Citizen Artist
ARTHUR C. DANTO: After the End of Art

• To find this in the Gale Virtual Reference Library, Search VC Online Databases for:
• Art after the end of art. (the irrelevance of ideology in future art) (Cover Story) Danto, Arthur Coleman
• Artforum International, April, 1993, Vol.31 (8), p.62(8)

EMILY HICKS: The Artist as Citizen

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Part THREE. Epistemology

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Chapter EIGHT. Is Knowledge Possible?

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Sufi Mysticism
AL-GHAZALI: Deliverance from Error

• http://www.ghazali.org/books/md/gz101.htm

8.3. Is Certainty Possible?
RENÉ DESCARTES: Meditations I and II

• http://www.sacred-texts.com/phi/desc/med.txt
• http://www.uri.edu/students/szunjic/philos/med2.htm
• http://www.wright.edu/~charles.taylor/descartes/mede.html
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/

8.4. Empiricism and Limited Skepticism
DAVID HUME: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

• http://18th.eserver.org/hume-enquiry.html

8.5. Should We Believe Beyond the Evidence?
WILLIAM K. CLIFFORD: The Ethics of Belief

• http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/Clifford_ethics.pdf
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-belief/

WILLIAM JAMES: The Will to Believe

• http://educ.jmu.edu//~omearawm/ph101willtobelieve.html
• http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26659/26659-h/26659-h.htm

8.6. Classical Indian Epistemology
JOHN M. KOLLER: Knowledge and Reality

8.7. Feminist Epistemology
ALESSANDRA TANESINI: The Importance of Standpoint in Feminism

• http://www.iep.utm.edu/fem-epis/
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-social-epistemology/
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-epistemology/

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Chapter NINE. Does Science Tell Us the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?

9.1. Introduction

9.2. How Do We Come to Believe?
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE: The Fixation of Belief

• http://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html

9.3. The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
KARL POPPER: Conjectures and Refutations

• http://worthylab.tamu.edu/Courses_files/Popper_ConjecturesandRefutations.pdf

9.4. Scientific Revolutions
THOMAS S. KUHN: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

• http://projektintegracija.pravo.hr/_download/repository/Kuhn_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions.pdf
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/

9.5. Science and Traditional Thought
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH: Old Gods, New Worlds

9.6. Feminism and Science
HELEN E. LONGINO: Can There Be a Feminist Science?

http://www.studiagender.umk.pl/pliki/teksty_longino_can_there_be_a_feminist_science.pdf

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Part FOUR. Metaphysics

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Chapter TEN. What Is Really Real?

10.1. Introduction

10.2. The Dao
LAOZI: Dao De Jing

• http://terebess.hu/english/tao/yutang.html

10.3. Platonic Dualism
PLATO: The Republic

• http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html

10.4. Nondualism
SHANKARA: The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination

• http://sacred-texts.com/hin/cjw/index.htm
• http://www.swamij.com/shankara-crest-jewel.htm

10.5. Subjective Idealism
GEORGE BERKELEY: The Principles of Human Knowledge

• http://philosophy.eserver.org/berkeley.html

10.6. Pre-Columbian Cosmologies
JORGE VALADEZ: Pre-Columbian Philosophical Perspectives

10.7. Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?
MARTIN HEIDEGGER: Introduction to Metaphysics    An introduction to metaphysics. Martin Heidegger 1889-1976.;1959, Available at OXNARD Circulating Book (BD331 .H4313 c.1 )

• http://www.morelightinmasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Heidegger-Introduction-to-Metaphysics.pdf
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gaZX1eizdI

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Chapter ELEVEN. Are We Free or Determined?

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Do We Have Real Choices?
RICHARD TAYLOR: Freedom and Determinism

• https://faculty.unlv.edu/jwood/unlv/Articles/TaylorFreeWill.PDF

11.3. We Are Determined
ROBERT BLATCHFORD: Not Guilty

• http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/jthrasher-sneathen/Blatchford.pdf
• http://staff.washington.edu/annbaker/Hard%20Determinism.htm

11.4. We Are Free
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE: Existentialism

• https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm

11.5. Karma and Freedom
SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN: Karma and Freedom

• https://archive.org/details/Sarvepalli.Radhakrishnan-An.Idealist.View.of.Life.1932

11.6. We Are Both Free and Determined
NANCY HOLMSTROM: Firming Up Soft Determinism

• http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/007353580x/student_view0/chapter_5/reading_30.html

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Chapter TWELVE. What Am I?

12.1. Introduction

12.2. You Are Your Mind
RENÉ DESCARTES: Meditation VI

• http://www.sacred-texts.com/phi/desc/med.txt
• http://www.uri.edu/students/szunjic/philos/med2.htm
• http://www.wright.edu/~charles.taylor/descartes/mede.html

12.3. You Are an Embodied Self
EVE BROWNING COLE: Body, Mind, and Gender

http://colfa.utsa.edu/philosophy-classics/faculty/browning

12.4. You Are a Computing Machine
BRUCE H. HINRICHS: Computing the Mind

Search VC Online Databases for:  Computing the mind: a scientific approach to the philosophy of mind and brain.(Cover Story) Hinrichs, Bruce. The Humanist, March-April, 1998, Vol.58(2), p.26(5) [Peer Reviewed Journal] Full text available Online

12.5. You Are Not a Machine
JOHN SEARLE: Can Computers Think?

• http://www.thatmarcusfamily.org/philosophy/Course_Websites/Readings/Searle%20-%20Can%20Computers%20Think.pdf
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

12.6. You Are Meat
TERRY BISSON: They’re Made Out of Meat

• http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

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Chapter THIRTEEN. Who Am I?

13.1. Introduction

13.2. There Is No Self

THE BUDDHA: False Doctrines about the Soul
The Simile of the Chariot

• https://sites.google.com/site/rahulawhatthebuddha/the-doctrine-of-no-soul
• https://philosophynow.org/issues/97/Is_The_Buddhist_No-Self_Doctrine_Compatible_With_Pursuing_Nirvana

13.3. Down with the Ego
DEREK PARFIT: Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons

http://philpapers.org/archive/PARDMA.pdf

13.4. Where Am I?
DANIEL DENNETT: Brainstorms

13.5. Social Identity
GLORIA ANZALDÚA: How to Tame a Wild Tongue

• http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/calabj/282/how%20to%20tame%20wild%20tongue.pdf
• http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic253768.files/Anzaldua%20Gloria%20Borderlands%20La%20Frontera%20Chap%205%20HOW%20TO%20TAME%20A%20WILD%20TONGUE.pdf Borderlands : the new mestiza = La frontera. Gloria Anzaldúa;c1987. Available at Ventura College Main Stacks – Library (PS3551.N95 B6 1987)13.6. Gender Identity

DEIRDRE (DONALD) N. MCCLOSKEY: Crossing

• http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/gender/dee.php

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Chapter FOURTEEN. Are Religious Claims True?

14.1. Introduction

14.2. Arguments for God’s Existence
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY: The Ontological Argument

• https://www.princeton.edu/~grosen/puc/phi203/ontological.html
• http://www.iep.utm.edu/ont-arg/
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/

THOMAS AQUINAS: The Five Ways

• http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Aquinas/aquinas_five_ways02.html
• http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web%20publishing/aquinasFiveWays_ArgumentAnalysis.htm
• http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/aquinas.shtml

14.3. Can Evil and God Co-Exist?
J. L. MACKIE: Evil and Omnipotence

• http://www.ditext.com/mackie/evil.html
• The philosophy of religion. Basil Mitchell;1971. Available at OXNARD Circulating Book (BL51 .M6553)

14.4. Unheard Voices of Suffering
JACK HERNANDEZ: Job’s Wife

• http://www2.bakersfieldcollege.edu/lhr/1-1/Hernandez.pdf

14.5. Religion and the Subordination of Women
ROSEMARY RUETHER: Is Christianity Misogynist?

14.6. Are All Religions True?
THE DALAI LAMA: The Role of Religion in Modern Society

• http://www.prisonmindfulness.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DiscoveringEthicsAStudyGuideforInmates.pdf

14.7. Are All Religions the Same?
STEPHEN PROTHERO: God Is Not One

• Full Text PDF available through VC Library Online Resources at ebook Academic Subscription/EBSCOhost.

 

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Appendix ONE. GLOSSARY

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