Coursepack Table of Contents

  1. Syllabus.
  2. Charlseworth, M. J., editor, St. Anselm’s Proslogion. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979, pp. 17-19, 158-167.
  3. Davies, Brian, editor, Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 253-259 (excerpt from Paley’s Natural Religion).
  4. Popkin, Richard H., editor, Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Posthumous Essays. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1980, pp. 15-21, 30-38.
  5. Pegis, Anton C., editor, Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas. New York: Random House, 1948, pp. 24-27.
  6. Leibniz, G. W., On the Ultimate Origination of Things. In Philosophical Essays.  Hackett, 1989, pp. 149-155.
  7. Pascal, Pensées. In Thoughts and Minor Works of Pascal: The Harvard Classics, v. 48.  P. F. Collier and Son, 1910, ‘The Miracles’, §§803-856, pp. 284-304.
  8. Hume, David; Steinberg, Eric, editor, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.  2nd edition. 1993, §X, ‘Of Miracles,’ pp. 72-90.
  9. Mackie, J. L., Evil and Omnipotence. Mind 64 1955, pp. 200-212.
  10. Swinburne, Richard, Is There a God? New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 95-113 (‘Why God allows evil’).
  11. Krailsheimer, A. J., editor, Pascal’s Pensées. New York: Penguin Books, 1966, pp. 418-422 (‘The Wager’).
  12. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 1a q14 a13 (online at
    http://www.newadvent.org/summa/101413.htm).
  13. Edwards, Jonathan; Edinburgh, editor, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of the Freedom of the Will which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame.  Thomas Nelson, 1933, pp. 133-148.
  14. Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1902, pp. 3-9.
  15. d’Holbach, Baron, The System of Nature. New York: Burt Franklin, 1868, pp. 88-103 (Chapter 11, ‘Of the System of Man’s Free Agency’).
  16. Frankfurt, Harry, Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility. Journal of Philosophy 66 1969, pp. 829-839.
  17. Frankfurt, Harry, Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person. In Watson, Gary, editor, Free Will.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971, pp. 322-336.
  18. Inwagen, Peter van, Metaphysics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993, pp. 184-199 (Chapter 12, ‘The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will’).
  19. Burtt, Edwin A., editor, The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill. New York: The Modern Library, 1967, pp. 598-607 (excerpt from Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding).
  20. Goodman, Nelson, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast.  4th edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983, pp. 59-80 (‘The new riddle of induction’).
  21. Hawthorne, John, Knowledge and Lotteries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 1-50 (Chapter 1, ‘Introducing the Puzzle’).
  22. Hart, W. D./McGinn, Colin, Knowledge and Necessity. Journal of Philosophical Logic 5 1976, pp. 205-207.
  23. Hall, Ned, How to Set a Surprise Exam. Mind 108 1999, §§1-3, pp. 647-655.

References

   Aquinas, Thomas: Summa Theologica: Translated in Five Volumes. Christian Classics, 1948

   Burtt, Edwin A., editor: The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill. New York: The Modern Library, 1967

   Charlseworth, M. J., editor: St. Anselm’s Proslogion. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979

   Davies, Brian, editor: Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000

   d’Holbach, Baron: The System of Nature. New York: Burt Franklin, 1868

   Edwards, Jonathan; Edinburgh, editor: An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of the Freedom of the Will which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame.  Thomas Nelson, 1933

   Frankfurt, Harry: Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility. Journal of Philosophy 66 1969, pp. 828-839

   Frankfurt, Harry: Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person. In Watson, Gary, editor: Free Will.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971, pp. 322-336

   Goodman, Nelson: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast.  4th edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983

   Hall, Ned: How to Set a Surprise Exam. Mind 108 1999, pp. 647-703

   Hart, W. D./McGinn, Colin: Knowledge and Necessity. Journal of Philosophical Logic 5 1976, pp. 205-208

   Hawthorne, John: Knowledge and Lotteries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004

   Hume, David; Steinberg, Eric, editor: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.  2nd edition. 1993

   Inwagen, Peter van: Metaphysics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993

   Krailsheimer, A. J., editor: Pascal’s Pensées. New York: Penguin Books, 1966

   Leibniz, G. W.: On the Ultimate Origination of Things. In Philosophical Essays.  Hackett, 1989, pp. 149-155

   Mackie, J. L.: Evil and Omnipotence. Mind 64 1955, pp. 200-212

   Pascal: Pensées. In Thoughts and Minor Works of Pascal: The Harvard Classics, v. 48.  P. F. Collier and Son, 1910

   Pegis, Anton C., editor: Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas. New York: Random House, 1948

   Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace: A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1902

   Popkin, Richard H., editor: Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Posthumous Essays. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1980

   Swinburne, Richard: Is There a God? New York: Oxford University Press, 1996