NEIL W. TENNANT
tennant.9@osu.edu
If you email me, please use the header PHIL 101: YOURNAME.
Professor
Department of Philosophy
Required articles from the assigned text
1. The Nature of Philosophy
Russell: 'The Value of Philosophy', p. 9
Smart: 'The Province of Philosophy', p. 12
Nagel: 'The Absurd', p. 20
2. Existence of God
Anselm: 'The Ontological Argument', p. 45
Aquinas: 'The Existence of God', p. 47
Russell: 'Why I am Not a Theist', p. 53
3. Scepticism about the external world
Descartes: 'Meditations on First Philosophy'(first three), p. 116
Hume: 'Of Skepticism with Regard to the Senses', p. 176
4. The problem of induction
Salmon: 'The Problem of Induction', p. 230
Goodman: 'Goodman's New Riddle of Induction', p. 791
5. Naturalism
Instructor's lecture notes.
6. Free will v. determinism
Campbell: 'Has the Self "Free Will"?', p. 417
Taylor: 'Freedom and Determinism', p. 437
7. Moral theories
Bentham: 'The Principle of Utility', p. 483
Mill: 'Utilitarianism', p. 486
Kant: 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals', p. 529
Rawls: 'A Theory of Justice', p. 598
8. Cartesian dualism v. physicalism
Ryle: 'Descartes's Myth', p. 316
Lewis: 'Mad Pain and Martian Pain', p. 331
Churchland: 'Eliminative Materialism', p. 349
9. Minds v. machines
Turing: 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', p. 355
Searle: 'Minds, Brains and Programs', p. 368