This page does not list everything on this site. Many of my pages contain specific organizational information about particular classes -- e.g. syllabi, reading schedules, information about papers, etc. None of this material is indexed here. Over time, though, the site has acquired some pages that actually have some substantive content about particular areas of philosophy; these are the pages I have attempted to index here.
Contents
History of Philosophy
Ancient
Modern
Ethics
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
Papers
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Science
Logic
Philosophy and Computer Science
Some Themes in Early Modern Philosophy
Philosophy of Language: The Early Modern BackgroundDescartes
Overview of Meditations I-II
Meditation III: Questions
Descartes: Formal and Objective Reality
Descartes: Some Major PointsSpinoza
The "One Substance" Argument of Ethics Part I
Spinoza, Themes from Part I after Prop. 14
Spinoza, Part II: Some ThemesLeibniz
Locke
Locke on Substance
Locke on Power
Locke on Knowledge
Locke on Judgment, Faith, Reason, etc.Berkeley
Hume
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, I-II
Hume on Experimental InferenceKant
Kant Overview (longish -- about 8000 words)
Kant - Transcendental Deduction
Kant - Paralogisms (on the nature of the self)
Kant - Third Antinomy (on freedom and necessity)
Kant's Ethics
Aristotle's Ethics
Kant's Ethics
Utilitarianism
Some Comparisons between Ethical Theories
Metaethics Overview (Summary and critique of Sober, Core Questions)Paper
Time: Four-Dimensionalism
Time Travel: Heinlein and Lewis
Persistence through Time
Persistence, Endurance, Perdurance: Arguments
McTaggart on the Unreality of Time
Quine on TimeUniversals 1
Universals 2
Particulars: Bundles of Universals?Possible Worlds: Lewis and Plantinga (pdf slides)
Reduction, Supervenience, etc. (pdf slides)
Free Will and Determinism
Dennett on Libertarianism (pdf)
Plato: Two Worlds
Rationalism: Plato and Descartes
Epistemology Overview (following Sober in Core Questions)Notes on Peter van Inwagen, Metaphysics
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Individuality
Chapter 5: Objectivity
Chapter 6: Ontological Argument (pdf slides)
Chapter 7: Cosmological Argument (pdf slides)
Chapter 9: Teleological Argument (pdf)
Chapter 10: Dualism (pdf)
Chapter 11: Personal Identity and DualismPaper
Internal Realism: Transcendental Idealism? Midwest Studies in Philosophy 12 (1988).
Churchland on Dualism
Dualism: Overview
Behaviorism: Overview
Behaviorism: Skinner and Dennett
Identity Theory: Overview
Functionalism
Putnam, Block, and Nida-Rümelin on Functionalism
Fodor and Kim on Reductivism and Multiple Realizability
Kim and Yablo on Mental Causation
Qualia (Brief Notes on Dennett)
Tye on Visual QualiaDennett on Consciousness: Three Theses
Notes on Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind:
What Is a Belief State? Midwest Studies in Philosophy 10 (1986).
Direct and Indirect Belief. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1992): 289-316.
How to Believe the Impossible. Philosophical Studies 58 (1990): 271-85.
Believing the Impossible. Synthese 89 (1991): 353-64.
Belief States and Narrow Content. Mind and Language 8 (1993): 343-67.
Narrow Mental Content. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002).
Some Basic Distinctions
Early Modern Background (Notes on Hacking)
Verificationism
Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic, chapter 3
Ayer on Truth
Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"Austin, How to Do Things with Words, sections I - III
Austin, How to Do Things with Words, sections IV - VII
Austin, list of illocutionary-act verbs and types (pdf)Overview of the Causal Theory of the Reference of Proper Names (pdf)
Overview of the Description Theory of the Reference of Proper names (pdf)
Description Theory of the Reference of Proper Names - Notes (pdf)Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Overview of §§1-120
Notes on William Lycan, Philosophy of Language
Chapters 3-4: Proper Names
Chapter 5: Traditional Theories of Meaning
Chapter 7: Grice on Meaning
Chapter 14: MetaphorNotes on Russell, Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Anselm's Ontological Argument
Aquinas's Cosmological and Teleological Arguments
Pascal's Wager Argument (Brief)
What is the Goal of Science?
Demarcation Proposals
Proposed Marks of Pseudoscience
Explanation
Van Fraassen on Explanation
Duhem on Underdetermination
Notes on Kuhn
Scientific Realism vs. Constructive Empiricism
NOA (Arthur Fine)
Sociology of Science: Haack and Latour
Observation: Hacking and van Fraassen
Metaphysics and Modern Physics
Values and ScienceProbability: A Quick Introduction
Bayes's Theorem and the Philosophy of Science
Decidability
Alternative Systems of Propositional Logic
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
Intro to Set Theory
Philosophy and Computer Science
Miscellaneous Random Thoughts
Notes on Smith, Origin of ObjectsPaper
Last update: June 11, 2009.
Curtis Brown | Philosophy Department | Trinity University
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