Philosophy Paper
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Instructor’s note: Below is the list of all readings we discussed in the class. When you are writing
your paper, DO NOT copy and paste the whole list below into your paper. List only those your
paper discusses.
References
Anselm (1077) Proslogion, from The Norton Introduction to Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by
Gideon Rosen at al., W.W. Norton & Company, 8-9.
Antony, Louise (2018) “No Good Reason – Exploring the Problem of Evil”, from The Norton
Introduction to Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by Gideon Rosen at al., W.W. Norton &
Company, 36-45.
Boghossian, Paul (2011) “The Maze of Moral Relativism”, New York Times, July 24.
Cohen, Stewart (2015), “Contextualism”, from The Norton Introduction to Philosophy, 1st edition,
edited by Gideon Rosen et al., W. W. Norton & Company, 318-26.
Descartes, René, (1984) Meditations on First Philosophy, from The Philosophical Writings of
Descartes: Volume 2, translated by John Cottingham et al., Cambridge University Press.
Hume, David (2007) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Peter Millican,
Oxford University Press.
Linnebo, Øystein (2017) Philosophy of Mathematics, Princeton University Press.
Maddy, Penelope (2018) “Do Numbers Exist?”, from The Norton Introduction to Philosophy, 2nd
edition, edited by Gideon Rosen at al., W.W. Norton & Company, 485-91.
Mill, John S. (2018) Utilitarianism, from The Norton Introduction to Philosophy, 2nd edition,
edited by Gideon Rosen at al., W.W. Norton & Company, 790-8.
O’Neill, Onora (1986) “A Simplified Account of Kant’s Ethics”, from Applied Ethics: A
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Multicultural Approach, 6th edition, edited by Larry May et al., Routledge, 16-21.
Plato (1997) Meno, from Plato: Complete Works, edited by John Cooper et al., Hackett Publishing.
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes (2007) The Correspondence between Princess
Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes, edited and translated by Lisa Shapiro,
University of Chicago Press.
Rosen, Gideon (2018) “Numbers and Other Immaterial Objects”, from The Norton Introduction to
Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by Gideon Rosen at al., W.W. Norton & Company, 476-
84.
Russell, Bertrand (1998) Problems of Philosophy, Oxford University Press.
Singer, Peter (1972) “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”, Philosophy and Public Affairs 1: 229-
243.
Smart, J. J. C. (1959) “Sensations and Brain Processes”, The Philosophical Review 68: 141-156.
Thomson, Judith J. (1972) “A Defense of Abortion”, Philosophy and Public Affairs 1: 47–66.
Wallace, R. Jay (2018) “Moral Subjectivism”, from The Norton Introduction to Philosophy, 2nd
edition, edited by Gideon Rosen at al., W.W. Norton & Company, 860-8.