Reading List for PHI356 Philosophical Projects II (Spring 2014)
Pyrrhonian Scepticism – Jimmy Lenman
Sextus Empiricus. 2000. Outlines of Scepticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jonathan Barnes. 1990. The Toils of Scepticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jonathan Barnes . 1982. ‘The beliefs of a pyrrhonist’, Proceedings of the Cambridge
Philological Society, vol 29: 1-29.
Myles Burnyeat. 1980. ‘Can the sceptic live his scepticism?’, in Schofield , Burnyeat, and
Barnes (eds). Doubt and Dogmatism: Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology. Oxford:
Clarendon Press.: 117-148.
Michael Frede, 1987. Essays in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press:
chapter 10.
Michael Frede, 1984. 'The Skeptics Two: Kinds of Assent and the Question of the
Possibility of Knowledge') in Philosophy of History, eds R.Rorty, J.Schneewind and
Q.Skinner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Michael Williams, 1988. ‘Scepticism without theory’. Review of Metaphysics vol. 41: 547588.
Markus Lammentranta. 2008. ‘The Pyrrhonian Problematic’ in Greco (ed) Oxford
Handbook of Skepticism.Oxford: Oxford University Press: 9-33.
Philosophy as Therapy – Jess Leech
WITTGENSTEIN, L. Philosophical Investigations [Preface; §§1-137; §§254-5; §593]
WITTGENSTEIN, L. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [Preface; 4-4.1212; 6.53-7]
BAKER, G. P. & HACKER, P. M. S. Wittgenstein: Meaning and Understanding (Blackwell:
1980) [Ch13]
DIAMOND, C. 'Throwing Away the Ladder: How to Read the Tractatus' in The Realistic
Spirit (MIT: 1991)
FOGELIN, R. 'Wittgenstein's Critique of Philosophy' in The Cambridge Companion to
Wittgenstein Sluga, H. D. and Stern, D. G. eds. (CUP 1996) pp.34-58
MCGINN, M. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical
Investigations (Routledge: 1997) [Introduction, Ch1&2]
STERN, D. G. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: an introduction (CUP: 2004)
[Introduction and Ch1,2,4,5]
Sartre on Bad Faith - Rosanna Keefe
J-P. Sartre, Being and Nothingness: part I ch. 1 § V; part I ch. 2 §§ II-III.
Gregory McCulloch, Using Sartre, ch. 4.
Robert Bernasconi, How To Read Sartre, ch. 4.
Gary Cox, Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed, pp. 96-122.
Anthony Manser, ‘A New Look at Bad Faith’, in Sartre: An
Investigation of Some Major Themes, edited by Simon Glynn.
Robert Solomon, ‘True to Oneself: Sartre’s Bad Faith and Freedom’, in
Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts, by Robert Solomon.
Jonathan Webber, ‘Sartre’s Theory of Character’, European Journal of
Philosophy 14, no. 1 (2006).
Ronald Santoni, Bad Faith, Good, Faith, and Authenticity in Sartre’s
Early Philosophy, chs. 1 and 4.
Absences and Omissions: Can they explain anything? Can they cause anything?
– George Botterill
Beebee, H. 2004, “Causing and Nothingness”, in: J.D. Collins, E.J. Hall, and L.A. Paul, eds.,
Causation and Counterfactuals, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp.291-308
Botterill, G. and Lavelle, J. 2013 “The Absent Relata Problem: Can Absences and
Omissions Really Be Causes?”, forthcoming in Dialectica: available from White Rose
eprints at http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/76562/
Dowe, P. 2001 “A Counterfactual Theory of Prevention and ‘Causation’ by Omission”,
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79, pp.216-226
Dunaway, B., Edmonds, A., and Manley, D. 2012 “The Folk Probably Do Think What You
Think They Think”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, pp.1-21 iFirst article
Lavelle, J., Botterill, G., and Lock, S. 2012 “Contrastive explanation and the many
absences problem”, Synthèse : DOI 10.1007/s11229-012-0205-9
Lewis, D. 2000 “Causation as influence”, Journal of Philosophy 97, pp.182-97
Lewis, D. 2004, “Void and Object” in: J.D. Collins, E.J. Hall, & L.A. Paul, eds., Causation and
Counterfactuals, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp.277-90
Livengood, J. and Machery, E. 2007 “The Folk Probably Don’t Think What You Think
They Think: Experiments on Causation by Absence”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 31,
pp.107-27
Persson, J. 2002 “Cause, Effect, and Fake Causation”, Synthèse 131, pp.129-43
Schaffer, J. 2005 “Contrastive Causation”, Philosophical Review 114, pp.327-58
Racism – Daniel Viehoff
Andreasen, R., 2000, “Race: Biological Reality or Social Construct?” Philosophy of Science
67 (Supplement): S653-S666.
Appiah, K. A., 1996, “Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections,” in Color
Conscious, Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press.
Gooding-Williams, R., 1998, “Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy,” Constellations 5
(1): 18-41.
Mallon, R., 2004, “Passing, Traveling and Reality: Social Constructionism and the
Metaphysics of Race,” Nous 38 (4): 644-673.
Mallon, R., 2006, “Race: Normative, Not Metaphysical or Semantic,” Ethics 116 (3): 525551.
Mallon, R. 2007, “A Field Guide to Social Construction,” Philosophy Compass 2 (1): 93108.
Zack, N., 2002, Philosophy of Science and Race, New York: Routledge.
Trust – Paul Faulkner
Baier, A. (1986). "Trust and Antitrust." Ethics 96: 231-60.
Gambetta, D., Ed. (1988). Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations. Oxford,
Basil Blackwell.
Hardin, R. (1996). "Trustworthiness." Ethics 107(1): 26-42.
Holton, R. (1994). "Deciding to Trust, Coming to Believe." Australasian Journal of
Philosophy 72(1): 63-76.
Jones, K. (1996). "Trust as an Affective Attitude." Ethics 107(1): 4-25.
Pettit, P. (1995). "The Cunning of Trust." Philosophy and Public Affairs: 202-225.
Essence and Modality – Bob Hale
Readings
Fine, Kit
‘Essence and modality’ in James Tomberlin, ed. Philosophical
Perspectives vol.8
‘The problem of de re modality’, ‘Reference, Essence, and Identity’
and ‘Quine on quantifying in’ all reprinted in
Fine’s Modality and Tense Oxford: Clarendon Press 2005
Aristotle
Posterior Analytics Bk 2
Metaphysics Bks. 7,8 (= Z,H)
Charles, David
Aristotle on Meaning and Essence Oxford: Clarendon Press 2000
Kripke, Saul
Naming and Necessity Oxford: Blackwell 1980
Quine, W.V.
‘Reference and modality’ essay VIII in Quine’s From a Logical Point of
View Harvard University Press 1953
‘Three grades of modal involvement’, ‘Reply to Professor Marcus’ and
‘Quantifiers and propositional attitudes’ essays 13-15 in Quine’s The
Ways of Paradox New York: Random House 1966
Marcus, Ruth Barcan ‘Essentialism in Modal Logic’ and ‘Essential Attribution’ essays 3 and 4
in Marcus’s Modalities Oxford University Press 1993—see also essays 1
and 14
Stalnaker, Robert
‘Anti-essentialism’ essay 4 in his Ways a World Might Be Oxford:
Clarendon Press 2003
Hale, Bob
‘Absolute necessities’ in James Tomberlin ed. Philosophical Perspectives
10
‘The source of necessity’ in James Tomberlin ed. Philosophical
Perspectives 16
Necessary Beings: an essay on ontology, modality, and the relations
between them Oxford: Clarendon Press 2013