Metaphysics

I God Intorduction: 1: Derek Parfit: Why Anything? Why This? 2: Thomas Aquinas: The five ways 3: William Paley: Extract from Natural Theology 4: Anselm of Canterbury: Extract from Proslogion 5: G.W. Leibniz: Extract from Monadology 6: J.L. Mackie: Evil and omnipotence II Realism and Idealism Introduction 7: John Locke: Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding 8: George Berkeley: Selection from Three Dialogues 9: Immanuel Kant: Selection from Critique of Pure Reason 10: Selection from Matter and Sense 11: Michael Dummett: Realism III Being Introduction 12: Aristotle: Selection from Categories 13: John Locke: Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding 14: Robert Merrihew Adams: Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity 15: W.V. Quine: On what there is 16: Peter van Inwagen: Selection from Material Beings 17: Gareth Evans: Can there be vague objects? 18: David Lewis: Vague Identity: Evans misunderstood Part IV Universals and Particulars Introduction 19: Plato: Selections from Republic and Parmenides 20: D.M. Armstrong: Selection from Universals: An Opinionated Introduction 21: David Lewis: Selection from New work for a theory of universals 22: Donald C. Williams: On the Elements of Being: I 23: Sydney Shoemaker: Causality and Properties Part V Necessity Introduction 24: Saul Kripke: Selection from Naming and Necessity 25: David Lewis: Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds 26: Alvin Plantinga: Actualism and Possible Worlds 27: D.M. Armstrong: Selection from A Combinational Theory of Possibility Part VI Causation Introduction 28: Aristotle: Selection from Metaphysics 29: David Hume: Selection from Enquiy Concerning Human Understanding 30: David Lewis: Causation 31: Donald Davidson: Causal Relations 32: D.H. Mellor: Selections from The Faces of Causation VII Time and Space Introduction 33: Aristotle: Selection from Physics 34: J.M.E McTaggart: Selection from The Nature of Existence 35: Arthur N. Prior: Changes in Events and Changes in Things 36: Paul Horwich: Selection from Asymmetries in Time 37: Selection from The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence 38: J.J.C. Smart: The space-time world 39: David Lewis: The Paradoxes of Time Travel Part VIII Identity Introduction 40: Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Time 41: David Lewis: Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds 42: Derek Parfit: Personal Identity 43: P.F. Snowdon: Persons, Animals, and Ourselves Part IX Mind and Body Introduction 44: Rene Descartes: Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy 45: G.W. Leibniz: Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances 46: Gilbert Harman: Selections from Thought 47: David Lewis: Psychophysical and theoretical identifications 48: Donald Davidson: Selection from Thinking Causes 49: Thomas Nagel: What is it like to be a bat? X Freedom and Determinism Introduction 50: David Hume: Selection from Treatise of Human Nature 51: Harry Frankfurt: Freedom of the will and the concept of a person 52: Peter van Inwagen: The incompatibility of freewill and determinism 53: Barry Loewer: Freedom from Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Free Will 54: Roderick M. Chisholm: Human Freedom and the self