The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy Volume I: Knowledge and Reality (Paperback)

Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
Introduction

• What Is Philosophy?
• A Brief Introduction to Arguments
• Introductory Tips on Reading and Writing Philosophy

• Does God Exist?
  • St. Anselm of Canterbury
    • Proslogion, Preface and Chapters 2–5; Pro Insipiente (“On Behalf of the Fool”) by Gaunilo of Marmoutiers; Anselm’s Reply to Gaunilo
  • St. Thomas Aquinas
    • Summa Theologiae, Part I, Question 2: Does God Exist?
  • David Hume
    • from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
  • William Paley
    • from Natural Theology
  • Gottfried Leibniz
    • Theodicy: Abridgment of the Argument Reduced to Syllogistic Form
  • J.L. Mackie
    • “Evil and Omnipotence”
  • Marilyn McCord Adams
    • Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God
  • Blaise Pascal
    • “The Wager,” from Pensées
  • William K. Clifford
    • “The Ethics of Belief”
  • William James
    • “The Will to Believe”

• Epistemology
  • Plato
    • “The Allegory of the Cave”
  • René Descartes
    • Meditations on First Philosophy
  • John Locke
    • from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Immanuel Kant
    • from Critique of Pure Reason, Introduction
  • G.E. Moore
    • “Proof of an External World”
  • Edmund L. Gettier
    • “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”
  • Lorraine Code
    • “Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant?”
  • Jennifer Saul
    • “Scepticism and Implicit Bias”
  • Lee Hester and Jim Cheney
    • “Truth and Native American Epistemology”
• Philosophy of Science
  • David Hume
    • from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  • Carl Hempel
    • “Scientific Inquiry: Invention and Test”
  • Karl Popper
    • “Science: Conjectures and Refutations”
  • Thomas Kuhn
    • “Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice”
  • Helen Longino
    • “Can There Be a Feminist Science?”

• Philosophy of Mind
  • Gilbert Ryle
    • from The Concept of Mind (“Descartes’s Myth”)
  • Ned Block
    • from “Troubles with Functionalism”
  • Thomas Nagel
    • “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”
  • Frank Jackson
    • from “Epiphenomenal Qualia” and “What Mary Didn’t Know”
  • David Chalmers
    • “The Puzzle of Conscious Experience”
  • Amy Kind
    • “How to Believe in Qualia”
• Free Will
  • Paul Rée
    • from The Illusion of Free Will, Chapters 1 and 2
  • Ishtiyaque Haji
    • from Incompatibilism’s Allure
  • A.J. Ayer
    • “Freedom and Necessity”
  • Harry G. Frankfurt
    • “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility”
  • P.F. Strawson
    • “Freedom and Resentment”
  • Susan Wolf
    • “Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility”
• Personal Identity
  • John Locke
    • from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Bernard Williams
    • “The Self and the Future”
  • Daniel C. Dennett
    • “Where Am I?”
  • Derek Parfit
    • “Personal Identity”
  • Marya Schechtman
    • “Experience, Agency, and Personal Identity”

Permissions Acknowledgements