Philosophy Resources


Table of Contents:

1. Issue related E-papers

2. Philosophy E-Articles, E-Essays and E-Texts
    2.1 'Pre 20th' Century (Classics)
    2.2 Epistemology
    2.3 Ethics
       2.3.1 Animal/Biomedical Ethics
       2.3.2 Environmental Ethics
    2.4 Metaphilosophy
    2.5 Metaphysics
    2.6 Philosophy of Language
    2.7 Philosophy of Mind
       2.7.1 Animal minds/cognition/consciousness
    2.8 Philosophy of Religion

3. Science E-Texts and E-Papers
    3.1 'Pre 20th' Century (Classics)
    3.2 Biology
    3.3 Cognitive Ethology
    3.4 Primatology
    3.5 Psychology


Issue related E-Papers

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Roberts' The Human Relationship With Chimpanzees

Philosophy E-Articles, E-Essays and E-Texts


'Pre-20th' Century (Classics):

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Aristotle's  Ethics

Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Berkeley's A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge

Descartes' Discourse on the Method

           Meditations On First Philosophy

Epictetus' Enchiridion

Hobbes' Leviathan

Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature

            An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

            Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

            Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

            The Natural History of Religion

James' Essays in Radical Empiricism

            Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Instrumental Truth

            Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking

            The Varieties of Religious Experience

            The Will to Believe

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Smith's Trans)

            Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

            Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

La Mettrie's Man a Machine

Leibniz's THE MONADOLOGY

Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

            Second Treatise of Government

Machiavelli's The Prince

Marx and Engel's Manifesto of the Communist Party

Mill's A System of Logic

            On Liberty

            THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN

            Utilitarianism

Peirce's The Fixation of Belief

            How to Make Our Ideas Clear

Plato's Crito

            Republic

            Sophist

Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality

            The Social Contract

Voltaire's Candide

            The Philosophical Dictionary (1924 edition of selected entries)

Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

            Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman

20th Century:


Epistemology

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Alston's Sellars and the "Myth of the Given"

Battal's What is Virtue Epistemology?

Bradie's Normalizing Naturalized Epistemology

Brown's Epistemic Concepts: A Naturalistic Approach

Carnap's Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology

DeRose's Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions

            Epistemic Possibilities

Gettier's Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

Hempel's Problems and Changes in the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning

Millikan's How We Make Our Ideas Clear: Empiricist Epistemology for Empirical Concepts

Russell's Knowledge and Wisdom

Sellar's EMPIRICISM AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Sosa's The Mythology of the Given

Wray's Defending Longino's Social Epistemology


Ethics

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Greenspan's CORRECTING SENTIMENTALIST FREE WILL: THOUGHTS ON HUME ON LIBERTY AND BLAME

            MORAL RESPONSES AND MORAL THEORY: SOCIALLY-BASED EXTERNALIST ETHICS

LaFollette's The Truth in Ethical Relativism

            The Truth in Psychological Egoism

Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism

AL and Ethics

Allen, Varner and Zinser Prolegomena to Any Future Artificial Moral Agent


Animal/Biomedical Ethics

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Allen's Cognitive Relatives and Moral Relations

Carruther's Sympathy and Subjectivity

LaFollette's Animal Rights and Human Wrongs

LaFollette and Shanks' Animal Experimentation: the Legacy of Claude Bernard

            The Origin of Speciesism

  Two Models of Models in Biomedical Research

  Util-izing Animals

Nozick's Moral constraints and animals

Singer's Do Animals feel pain?

VanDeVeer's Interspecific Justice and Intrinsic Value


Environmental Ethics

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Jamieson's ANIMAL LIBERATION IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL  ETHIC

            Climate Change and Global Environmental Justice

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            SUSTAINABILITY AND BEYOND


Meta-philosophy

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Alston's What Is Naturalism, that We Should Be Mindful of It?

Fitelson and Sober's Plantinga's Probability Arguments Against Evolutionary Naturalism

Plantinga's Methodological Naturalism?

Robbin's Is Naturalism Irrational?


Metaphysics

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Goodman and Quine's Steps Toward a Constructive Nominalism

Miscellaneous

Russell's The Problems of Philosophy

Wittgenstein's Lectures on Philosophy


Philosophy of Language

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Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism

Russell's On Denoting

Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus


Philosophy of Mind

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Aydede's Language of thought hypothesis

  Syntax, content, and functionalism: What is wrong with the syntactic theory of  mind

Baars' The functions of consciousness

Block's ON A CONFUSION ABOUT A FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Block and Stalnaker's CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS, DUALISM AND THE EXPLANATORY GAP

Bringsjord's COGNITION IS NOT COMPUTATION: THE ARGUMENT FROM IRREVERSIBILITY

Brinsgjord and Noel's Why did evolution engineer consciousness?

C. Brown's Belief States and Narrow Content

            What is a Belief State?

J. Brown's The Incompatibility of Anti-Individualism and Privileged Access

A. Byrne's Behaviorism

Carruther's Conscious Thinking: language or elimination?

            Natural Theories of Consciousness

  Thinking in language?: evolution and a modularist possibility

Chalmers' A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition

            Consciousness and Cognition

            Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness

Dennett's Evolution, Error and Intentionality

  Real Patterns

Dennett and Haugeland's Intentionality

Dretske's What good is consciousness?

Goldman's CONSCIOUSNESS, FOLK PSYCHOLOGY, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Hauser and Abbott's Natural Language and Thought

Humphrey's The Uses of Consciousness

            The Privatization of Sensation

Millikan's A Common Structure for Concepts of Individuals, Stuffs, and Real Kinds: More Mama, More Milk and More Mouse

            The Language-Thought Partnership: A Bird's Eye View

  What is Behavior?

Nagel's CONCEIVING THE IMPOSSIBLE AND THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM

Place's Token- Versus Type-Identity Physicalism

Plantinga's Darwin, Mind and Meaning

Polger and Flanagan's Explaining the Evolution of Consciousness: The Other Hard Problem

  Is consciousness an adaptation?

Rosenthal's Consciousness and Higher-order thought

            The Kinds of Consciousness

Rowlands' Teleosemantics

Stalnaker's WHAT MIGHT NONCONCEPTUAL CONTENT BE?

Stoljar's What what it's like isn't like

Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Tye's What what's it like is really like


Animal minds/cognition/consciousness

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Allen's Animal Cognition and Animal Minds

  Animal Concepts Revisited: The Use of Self Monitoring as an Empirical Approach

Carruther's Animal Subjectivity

Dennett's Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why

Denning's Some Thoughts on the Relation Between Animal Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence


Philosophy of Religion

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Alston's The Experiential Basis of Theism

DeRose's Are Christian Beliefs Properly Basic?

Plantinga's Advice to Christian Philosophers

            Augustinian Christian Philosophy

            Intellectual Sophistication and Basic Belief in God

            Truth, Atheism and Rationality

Robbin's EVOLUTIONARY NATURALISM, THEISM, AND SKEPTICISM ABOUT THE EXTERNAL WORLD

Russell's Why I Am Not A Christian

Science E-Texts or E-Papers


'Pre 20th' Century (Classics)

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Brentano's Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint

Darwin's The Origin of Species

            Descent of Man

            Expression of Emotion in Man & Animals

Harvey's On the motion of the heart and blood in animals

Huxley's On the hypothesis that animals are automata, and its history

James' Does 'Consciousness' Exist?

            The Principles of Psychology

            The Stream of Consciousness

            What is an emotion?

Morgan's An introduction of comparative psychology (new edition, revised)

Thorndike's Animal Intelligence


Biology

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MIT Biology Hypertextbook


Cognitive Ethology

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Bekoff's COGNITIVE ETHOLOGY: THE COMPARATIVE  STUDY OF ANIMAL MINDS

            Cognitive Ethology and the Explanation of  Nonhuman Animal Behavior

            Cognitive ethology, vigilance, information gathering, and representation

            Coyotes: Victims of their own Success

            DEEP ETHOLOGY

            Intentional Communication and Social Play: How and Why Animals Negotiate and Agree to Play

            PLAY SIGNALS AS PUNCTUATION: THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL PLAY IN CANIDS

            PLAYING WITH PLAY: WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT COGNITION, NEGOTIATION, AND EVOLUTION?

            Vigilance, Flock Size, and Flock Geometry: Information Gathering by Western Evening Grosbeaks

Bekoff and Allen's Cognitive ethology: slayers, skeptics, and proponents

            Intentional Communication and Social Play: How and Why Animals Negotiate and Agree to Play

Pepperberg's Referential Communication with an African Grey Parrot

  STUDIES TO DETERMINE THE INTELLIGENCE OF AFRICAN GREY PARROTS

  Talking Birds

 

Primatology

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Byrne and Russon's Learning by Imitation: a Hierarchical Approach

Heyes' THEORY OF MIND IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES


Psychology

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Atkinson's Wholes and their parts in cognitive psychology: Systems, subsystems and persons

Barnes and Thagard's Emotional Decisions

      Empathy and Analogy

Greco's The concept of representation in psychology

            Integrating "different" models in cognitive psychology

            Introduction: General Aspects of the Concept of Representation

Humphrey's Cave Art, Autism, and the Evolution of the Human Mind

Rozeboom, William W.  The fallacy of the null-hypothesis significance test

Skinner's Are theories of learning necessary?

            'Superstition' in the pigeon

            Two types of conditioned reflex and a pseudo type

Tolman's A NEW FORMULA FOR BEHAVIORISM

            Cognitive maps in rats and men

Watson's Is thinking merely the action of language mechanisms?

            Psychology as the behaviorist views it

Watson, John B. & MacDougall, William. The battle of behaviorism: An exposition and an exposure.



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