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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 1 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. 2 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) 3 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 4