Library: Philosophy: PHL 210

Class Books & General References

Introduction to Philosophy by Louis P. Pojman; James Fieser (Editor)
Call Number: BD21 .I54 2008 - closed reserve
ISBN: 9780195311617
Publication Date: 2008
For use in Jim Soto's PHL 210, PHL 213, and PHL 220 classes. Copy available for in-library use only.
Being Good by Simon Blackburn
Call Number: ebook - multiuser license
ISBN: 9780192853776
Publication Date: 2014
Being Good by Simon Blackburn
Call Number: ebook - multiuser license
ISBN: 9780192853776
Publication Date: 2001

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Unit 1 - Introduction / Crash Course in Logic / What Philosophy is / Challenges to Ethics

The Value of Philosophy
Russell, Bertrand. From The Problems of Philosophy
Plato's Allegory of the cave
Translation by Thomas Sheehan.
Wanted: Female Philosophers, in the Classroom and in the Canon
Penaluna, Regan, "Wanted: Female Philosophers, in the Classroom and in the Canon", Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 Oct. 2009.
Plato: Euthyphro - MIT Classics
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Psychological Egoism
From philosophy.lander.edu
The Republic, Book II "Gyges Ring"
By Plato .Translated by Benjamin Jowett

Unit 2 - Ethics in Society: Justice, Rights, and Democracy

A Theory of Justice
Rawls, John. From Ethical Theory: An Anthology
Entitlement view of justice
From Hunt's Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An advanced guide, Overview of Nozick's Entitlement Theory of Justice.
War and Massacre
Nagel, Thomas. From Moral Philosophy: A Reader
Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems
O'Neill, Onora. From Ethical Theory: An Anthology
A defense of abortion
Thomson, Judith Jarvis. Reprinted in Medical Ethics

The Port Huron Statement by Richard Flacks (Editor); Nelson Lichtenstein (Editor)
Call Number: ebook - multiuser license
ISBN: 9780812246926
Publication Date: 2015
Text of The Port Huron Statement - pp 239-284; (46 pages)

The Port Huron Statement (Complete version)

Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer; Bill Gates (Foreword by); Melinda Gates (Foreword by)
Call Number: ebook - multiuser license
ISBN: 9780190219208
Publication Date: 2015

Unit 3 - Epistemology

Is justified true belief knowledge?
by Edmund Gettier. Reprinted in Metaphysics and epistemology: a guided anthology, (2013) edited by Stephen Hetherington.
Meditations I & II
by Rene Descartes. In Meditations on First Philosophy : with Selections from the Objections and Replies, pp. 13-24 of ebook.

The Copernican revolution in knowledge
by Immanuel Kant. Public domain work. Retrieved and excerpts from ProjectGutenberg.org

Epistemic Injustice
McKinnon, R. (2016) Epistemic Injustice. Philosophy Compass, 11: 437–446. doi: 10.1111/phc3.12336.

Unit 4 - Introduction to Metaphysics (Mind-Body): The Nature of Mental States

"Computing machinery and intelligence" in Alan Turing: his work and impact by S. Barry Cooper (Editor); J. van Leeuwen (Editor)
Call Number: ebook - multiuser license
ISBN: 9780123869807
Publication Date: 2013
pp. 552-568.
"Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in Parsing the Turing Test by Robert Epstein (Editor); Gary Roberts (Editor); Grace Beber (Editor)
Call Number: ebook - multiuser license
ISBN: 9781402096242
Publication Date: 2008
Turing A.M. (2009) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. In: Epstein R., Roberts G., Beber G. (eds) Parsing the Turing Test. Springer, Dordrecht

"Minds, Brains, and Programs: in Mind Design II : Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence.
Searle, John R. "Minds, Brains, and Programs: in Haugeland, John. Mind Design II : Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence. Vol. Rev. and enl. ed, MIT Press, 1997. EBSCOhost,
"Minds, brains, and programs"
Searle, John R., "Minds, brains, and programs" The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 3, 1980, pp. 417-457.