Truth about the World Basic Readings in Philosophy

Preface 1. James Rachels, Introduction 2. Plato, Socrates's Trial 3. Plato, Socrates's Unanswered Question About Justice God 4. St. Thomas Aquinas, Five Ways to Prove That God Exists 5. William Paley, The Watch and the Watch-Maker 6. J.L. Mackie, Evil and Omnipotence 7. Michael L. Peterson, The Problem of Evil 8. Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian 9. William Lycan and George Schlesinger, You Bet Your Life: Pascal's Wager Defended The Mind 10. Bertrand Russell, Do We Survive Death? 11. Derek Parfit, Split Brains and Personal Identity 12. B.F. Skinner, The Causes of Behavior 13. David Armstrong, The Mind-Brain Identity Theory 14. Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat? 15. John R. Searle, The Myth of the Computer Freedom 16. John-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism 17. W.T. Stace, Compatibilism Defended 18. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Knowledge 19. Rene Descartes, Meditations I and II 20. George Berkeley, Does Matter Exist? 21. A.J. Ayer, The Argument from Illusion 22. J.L. Austin, Reality 23. David Hume, On Miracles Ethics 24. David Hume, Ethics and Human Feeling 25. C.S. Lewis, Our Sense of Right and Wrong 26. Peter Singer, Four Ethical Principles 27. Martha C. Nussbaum, The Virtues 28. Richard Taylor, The Meaning of LifeRachels, James is the author of 'Truth about the World Basic Readings in Philosophy', published 2004 under ISBN 9780072980813 and ISBN 0072980818.