PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the 2015-16 academic year
– precise seminar content may change from year to year.
1. Introduction (Term 1, Week 2)
2. Strawson on Analytical Philosophy (Term 1, Week 3)
Reading:

P. F. Strawson. (1992). Analysis and Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 1
& 2.
3. Stroud on Transcendental Arguments (Term 1, Week 5)
Reading:

B. Stroud. (1968). Transcendental Arguments, The Journal of Philosophy, LXV: 241- 56
4. Sorensen on Thought Experiments (Term 1, Week 7)
Reading:

R. Sorensen. (1992) Thought Experiments, Chapter 1 and Chapter 4
5. Martin on the Perception of Reproductions (Term 1, Week 9)
Reading:

M. G. F. Martin. (2012). Sounds and Images. British Journal of Aesthetics. 52 (4) 331-351

M.G.F.Martin, 'Sounds and Images'
6. Lewis on Knowledge (Term 2, Week 3)
Reading:

D. Lewis. (1996). Elusive Knowledge. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 74 (4): 549-567)

David Lewis, Elusive Knowledge
7. Anscombe on Moral Philosophy (Term 2, Week 5)
Reading:

G. E. M. Anscombe. (1958). Modern Moral Philosophy. Philosophy 33(124): 1- 19.
8. Wiggins on Weakness of Will (Term 2, Week 7)
Reading:

D. Wiggins (1980 [1978-79], Weakness of Will, Commensurability and the Objects of
Deliberation and Desire. In A. O. Rorty (ed.) Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics. Berkeley: University
of California Press. 241- 266.
9. Burnyeat on the Early Moderns on the Ancients (Term 2, Week 9)
Reading:

M. Burnyeat. (1982). "Idealism and Greek Philosophy: What Descartes Saw and Berkeley
Missed". Philosophical Review, 90: 3- 40.

Also published in G. Vesey (ed.) Idealism, Past and Present, Royal Institute of Philosophy
Lectures Vol. 13 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press), and in M. Burnyeat.
(2012). Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Volume One. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press.