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PHI355 Philosophical Projects I, Reading Lists
Marx on History
Karl Marx, selection on the materialist conception of history in David McLellan (ed),
Karl Marx: Selected Writings, OUP, 1977, pp. 129-219
Karl Marx, Preface to A Critique of Political Economy
Allen Wood, Karl Marx, Routledge, 1981, Chaps V-VIII
G. A. Cohen, Karl Marx s Theory of History: A Defence , Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1978
Jon Elster, Making Sense of Marx, CUP, 1985, pp. 235-397
Evil of Death
T. Nagel, 'Death', Nous 4, 1970: 73-80. Reprinted in Nagel, Mortal Questions (CUP
1979), and in J. M. Fischer, ed., The Metaphysics of Death, Stanford University
Press 1993.
B. Williams, 'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality', in
Williams, Problems of the Self, CUP 1973. Reprinted in Fischer.
F. Feldman, Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death', Philosophical Review 100: 20527. Reprinted in Fischer.
J. McMahan, 'Death and the Value of Life', Ethics 99, 1988: 32-61. Reprinted in
Fischer.
K. Draper, 'Disappointment, Sadness, and Death', Philosophical Review 108, 1999:
387-414.
J. D. Velleman, 'Well-Being and Time', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 72, 1991: 4877. Reprinted in Fischer.
Nietzsche on Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals
R. Geuss Nietzsche and Genealogy European Journal of Philosophy 2 (1994)
pp.275-92
Alexander Nehamas Nietzsche: Life as Literature chapter 4 ( Nature against
something that is also nature )
Brian Leiter Nietzsche on Morality ch.s 1, 3, 4 & 5.
The Problem of Mathematical Objects
Benacerraf, Paul What numbers could not be Philosophical Review 1965
Mathematical truth Journal of Philosophy 1973
Frege, Gottlob
The Foundations of Arithmetic Oxford: Blackwell 1959̶English
translation by J.L.Austin of Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik
Breslau: Koebner 1884
Dummett, Michael Frege Philosophy of Language London: Duckworth 1973, ch.14
Frege Philosophy of Mathematics London: Duckworth 1991,
chs.18, 24
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What is mathematics about? in Dummett s The Seas of
Language Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993
Parsons, Charles Mathematical Thought and its Objects Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press 2008
Shapiro, Stewart Thinking about mathematics Oxford: OUP 2000
Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology Oxford: OUP
1997
Hellman, Geoffrey Mathematics without Numbers
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1989
Field, Hartry
Science without Numbers Oxford: Blackwell 1980
Realism, Mathematics, and Modality Oxford: Blackwell 1989
Maddy, Penelope Realism in Mathematics
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1990
Naturalism in Mathematics Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997
Fine, Kit
Our knowledge of mathematical objects in Gendler, T. &
Hawthorne, J. eds. Oxford Studies in Epistemology OUP 2005
Wright, Crispin
Frege s Conception of Numbers as Objects Aberdeen University
Press 1983
Hale, Bob &
The Reason s Proper Study: Essays towards a Neo-Fregean
Wright, Crispin
philosophy of mathematics Oxford: Clarendon Press 2001
Benacerraf s dilemma revisited European Journal of Philosophy
2002
Hale, Bob
Abstract Objects Oxford: Blackwell 1987
The problem of mathematical objects in Sommaruga, G. ed.
Foundational Theories of Classical and Constructive Mathematics
Western Ontario Series in philosophy of Science, Springer 2011
Moral Luck
Dworkin, Ronald. Equality, Luck and Heirarchy , Philosophy and Public Affairs 31
(2003), 190-198.
Hurley, Susan. Luck, Responsibility, and the Natural Lottery , Journal of Political
Philosophy 10 (2002), 79-94.
Lewis, David. The Punishment That Leaves Something to Chance in Papers in
Ethics and Social Philosophy. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper. Justice and Bad Luck , Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, 20th Jun., 2005, revised 29th Aug., 2009. Online at
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-bad-luck/.
McGrath, Sarah. Causation by Omission: A Dilemma , Philosophical Studies 123
(2005), 125-148.
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Nichols, Shaun. & Knobe, Joshua. Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The
Cognitive Science of Folk Intuition , Nous 41 (2007), 663-685.
Otsuka, Michael. Luck, Insurance and Equality , Ethics 113 (2002), 40-54.
Vallentyne, Peter. Brute Luck, Option Luck, and Equality of Initial Opportunities in
Ethics 112 (2002), 529-557.
Viney, W., Waldman, D., & Barchilon, J. Attitudes toward Punishment in Relation to
Beliefs in Free Will and Determinism , Human Relations 35 (1982), 939-949.
Viney, W., Parker-Martin, P., & Dotten, S. D. H. Beliefs in Free Will and
Determinism and Lack of Relation to Punishment Rationale and Magnitude , Journal
of General Psychology 115 (1988), 15-23.
Zimmerman, M. Luck and Moral Responsibility , in Statman, D. (Ed.) Moral Luck
(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993), 217-23
Conceptual Schemes
Main text:
DAVIDSON, D., 'On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme', in Inquiries into Truth
and Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 183-98.
Historical background:
CARNAP, R., 'Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology.' Revue Internationale de
Philosophie 4 (1950): 20-40. Reprinted in his Meaning and Necessity (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1956); and in L. Linsky, ed., Semantics and the
Philosophy of Language (Urbana, IL: Illinois University Press, 1952).
QUINE, W.V., 'Ontological Relativity', in Ontological Relativity and Other Essays,
edited by W.V. Quine (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969).
Other reading:
BAGHRAMIAN, M. 'Why Conceptual Schemes?' in Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society, New Series, Vol. 98 (1998), pp. 287-306
CHILD, W., 'On the Dualism of Scheme and Content' in Proceedings of the
Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 94 (1994), pp. 53-71
DAVIDSON, D. 'The Myth of Subjective' in Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective:
Philosophical Essays Volume 3 (OUP: 2001) also in Krausz, M. ed. Relativism:
Interpretation and Confrontation (Notre Dame: 1989)
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MCGINN, M., 'The Third Dogma of Empiricism', in Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society, New Series, Vol. 82 (1981 - 1982), pp. 89-101
RORTY, R., 'The World Well Lost', in Consequences of Pragmatism, edited by R.
Rorty. (Brighton: Harvester, 1982). Reprinted in The Pragmatism Reader, edited by
Talisse and Aiken (Princeton University Press, 2011), pp. 353-66.
Euthanasia
James Rachels, Active and Passive Euthanasia , Bonnie Steinbock and Alastair
Norcross s (Eds.), Killing and Letting Die, (New York: Fordham University
Press, 1994), also in The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 292,
January 9, 1975, pp. 78 ‒ 80
Thomas Sullivan, Active and Passive Euthanasia: An Impertinent Distinction? ,
Bonnie Steinbock and Alastair Norcross s (Eds.), Killing and Letting Die, (New
York: Fordham University Press, 1994).
John Harris, Euthanasia and the value of life , in Euthanasia Examined: Ethical,
Clinical and Legal Perspectives, Keown, J (Ed.), (Cambridge: CUP, 1995), pp.
6 - 22
John Finnis, A Philosophical Case Against Euthanasia in Euthanasia Examined:
Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives, Keown, J (Ed.), (Cambridge: CUP,
1995), pp. 23 - 35
John Harris, The Philosophical Case Against the Philosophical Case Against
Euthanasia , Euthanasia in Euthanasia Examined: Ethical, Clinical and Legal
Perspectives, Keown, J (Ed.), (Cambridge: CUP, 1995), pp. 36 - 45
Moral Status
Moral Status , Mary-Ann Warren in A Companion to Applied Ethics, edited by R. G.
Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman.
The Basis of Human Moral Status , S. Matthew Liao, Journal of Moral Philosophy,
Volume 7, Number 2, 2010 , pp. 159-179(21)
Peter Singer, Practical Ethics 2nd Edition, particularly Chapters 2 and 3.
Moral Status: obligations to persons and other living things, Mary-Ann Warren,
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
The Ethics of Killing, Jeff McMahan, New York, Oxford University Press, 2002,
Chapter 3, Killing , particularly 3.2 Animals and Severely Cognitively Impaired
Human Beings
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