NEIL W. TENNANT

tennant.9@osu.edu

If you email me, please use the header PHIL 101: YOURNAME.

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Professor
Department of Philosophy

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Required articles from the assigned text

1. The Nature of Philosophy
Russell: 'The Value of Philosophy'
Nagel: 'The Absurd'

2. Existence of God
Anselm: 'The Ontological Argument'
Aquinas: 'The Existence of God'
Russell: 'Why I am Not a Christian'

3. Scepticism about the external world
Descartes: 'Meditations on First Philosophy'(first three)
Hume: 'Of Skepticism with Regard to the Senses'

4. The problem of induction
Salmon: 'The Problem of Induction'
Goodman: 'Goodman's New Riddle of Induction'

5. Naturalism
Instructor's lecture notes

6. Free will v. determinism
David Hume, 'Of Liberty and Necessity'

7. Moral theories
Bentham: 'The Principle of Utility'
Mill: 'Utilitarianism'
Kant: 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'
Rawls: 'A Theory of Justice'

8. Cartesian dualism v. physicalism
Ryle: 'Descartes's Myth'
Churchland: 'Eliminative Materialism'

9. Minds v. machines
Turing: 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence'
Searle: 'Minds, Brains and Programs'