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Epistemology and Moral Philosophy AQA set text links
Epistemology
- Berkeley, G (1713), Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
- Descartes, R (1641), Meditations on First Philosophy, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
- Gettier, E (1963), ‘Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?’ Analysis, 23(6), pp. 121–123
- Hume, D (1748), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section 2 and Section 4 (part 1).
- Leibniz, G (1705), New Essays on Human Understanding, Preface and Book 1: esp. Ch. 1-3.
- Locke, J (1690), An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 1 (esp. Chapter 2), Book 2 (esp. Chapters 1, 2, 8 and 14), Book 4 (esp. Chapter 11)
- Plato, Meno from 81e: the discussion of innate knowledge begins (at 81e) with the words ‘You argue that man cannot enquire either about that which he knows, or about that which he does not know’
- Russell, B (1912), The Problems of Philosophy, Chapters 1, 2
- Trotter Cockburn, Catharine (1732), (attrib) ‘A Letter from an anonymous writer to the author of the Minute Philosopher’ Appendix to G Berkeley Theory of Vision Vindicated and Explained
- Zagzebski, Linda (1999), ‘What is Knowledge?’ in John Greco & Ernest Sosa (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, pp. 92 –116
Moral Philosophy
- Annas, Julia (2006), 'Virtue Ethics', in David Copp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 515–536
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Books 1 (1–5, 7–10, 13), 2 (1–7), 3 (1–5), 5, 6 (1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13), 7 (12–13), 10 (1–8)
- Ayer, AJ (1973/1991), The Central Questions of Philosophy, London, Penguin, pp. 22–29
- Ayer, AJ (1946), Language, Truth and Logic, 2nd Edition, New York, Dover (esp. Chapters 1 and 6)
- Bentham, Jeremy (1789), Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Oxford, Clarendon Press. Chapter 1 (The Principle of Utility) and Chapter 4 (Measuring Pleasure and Pain)
- Diamond, Cora (1978), ‘Eating Meat and Eating People’, Philosophy, 53, pp. 465–479
Free access is available by registering on the page or at http://about.jstor.org/rr - Foot, Philippa (1972), ‘Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives’, Philosophical Review, 81 (3), pp. 305–316.
You’ll need to buy this electronic version if you don’t have a subscription. - Hare, RM (1952), The Language of Morals, Chapters 1, 5, 7, 10.2.
- Hume, D (1739-40), Treatise of Human Nature, Book III, Part 1
- Kant, I (1785), Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Chapters 1 and 2
- Mackie, JL (1977), Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Penguin, Chapter 1, Sections 8 and 9.
- Mill, JS (1863), Utilitarianism, Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5
- Moore, GE (1903), Principia Ethica, Cambridge University Press, Sections 6-14.
- Smart, Jack J C & Williams, Bernard (1973), Utilitarianism: For and Against, Chapter 2 (Act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism) and Chapter 3 (Hedonistic and non-hedonistic utilitarianism)
Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind AQA set text links
Metaphysics of God
- Anselm, Proslogium, Chapters II–IV, and Gaunilo, from the appendix to St Anselm’s Proslogium
- Aquinas, T Summa Theologica, Part 1, Question 25, Article 3 and Question 2, Article 3
- Ayer, AJ (1973/1991), The Central Questions of Philosophy, London, Penguin, pp. 22–29
- Ayer, AJ (1946), Language, Truth and Logic, 2nd Edition, New York, Dover, Chapters 1 and 6
- Descartes, R (1641), Meditations on First Philosophy, 3 and 5
- Flew, Antony, Richard M Hare and Basil Mitchell (1955), ‘Theology and Falsification’ in New Essays in Philosophical Theology, edited by Antony Flew and Alasdair MacIntyre, London, SMC Press. These articles are also reprinted in Philosophy of Religion, edited by Basil Mitchell, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1971.
- Hick, J (1966/1978), Evil and the God of Love, New York, Harper and Row, (revised edition), Chapters 13–17 (esp. Chapter 13)
- Hume, D (1779), Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Parts II, V, VIII and IX
- Hume, D (1748), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Part XI
- Leibniz, Gottfried (1714), Monadology, sections 32–39.
- Malcolm, N (1960), ‘Anselm’s ontological arguments’, The Philosophical Review, 69, pp. 41–62
You’ll need to buy this electronic version if you don’t have a subscription. - Midgley, Mary (1984), Wickedness. Routledge, Chapters 1 and 5
- Paley, W (1802/2008), Natural Theology, OUP, Chapters 1, 2 and 5
A pdf version is also available at https://archive.org/details/naturaltheology01waregoog - Plantinga, A (1975), God, Freedom, and Evil: Essays in Philosophy, George Allen & Unwin, pp. 29-34 and 59-64
- Plato, Euthyphro
- Stump, Eleanore & Kretzmann, Norman (1981), ‘Eternity’, Journal of Philosophy, 78 (8), pp. 429–458
- Swinburne, RG (1968), ‘The Argument from Design’, Philosophy, 43 (165), 199–212
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Philosophy of Mind
- Avramides Anita (2001). Other Minds. Routledge, Chapter 2.
- Block, N (1980), ‘Troubles with functionalism’ in Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Volume 1, Harvard University Press, 275-278 – section 1-2
- Chalmers, David (1996), The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Oxford University Press, Chapter 1.
- Chalmers, D (2003), ‘Consciousness and its place in nature’ in Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. This is also reprinted as Ch. 5 in Chalmers (2010), The Character of Consciousness, Oxford, OUP.
- Churchland, Patricia Smith (2002). Brain-wise. Introduction (Sections 1, 3, 4) and Chapter 4, section 2. The MIT Press.
- Churchland, Paul (1981), ‘Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes’, Journal of Philosophy 78, pp. 67–90 (Section 2 Why folk psychology might (really) be false).
You’ll need to buy this electronic version if you don’t have a subscription. - Descartes, R (1641), Meditations on First Philosophy, 6
- Hempel Carl (1949/2000), ‘The Logical Analysis of Psychology.’ in Richard Jeffrey (Ed) Carl G Hempel: Selected Philosophical Essays, Cambridge University Press
- Jackson, F (1982), ‘Epiphenomenal Qualia’, Philosophical Quarterly 32, pp. 127–136
- Putnam, Hilary (1975/1986), ‘The Nature of Mental States’ In Mind, Language and Reality. Philosophical Papers, Volume 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Ryle, G (1949/2000), The Concept of Mind, London, Penguin Classics, Chapters 1, 2, 5 and 6
- Shapiro Lisa (Ed) (2007), The correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes, edited and translated. University of Chicago Press. Letters from May 1643.
- Smart, JJC (1959), ‘Sensations and brain processes’, The Philosophical Review, 68 (2), pp. 141– 156.
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