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Required:

Davis, Thomas, Philosophy: An Introduction Through Original Fiction, Disucssion, and a Multi-Media CD-ROM.  4th ed.  New York, NY: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2004.  ISBN: 0072831766.

Feinberg, Joel, and Russ Shafer-Landau, eds., Reason and Responsibility. 12th ed.  New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003.  ISBN: 0534543510.  See Calendar for links to many of the readings from this text.

Recommended:

Martinich, A.P., Philosophical Writing.  2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.  ISBN: 0631202811.

Other Reading

  • Berkeley, George, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.  Kessinger Publisher, 2005.  ISBN: 1417972165.  Text Available at Berkeley: Three Dialogues I and Berkeley: Three Dialogues II.
  • Cahn, Steven M., "Introduction: The Elements of Argument" in Reason at Work.  2nd ed.  Steven M. Cahn, Patricia Kitcher, and George Sher,eds.  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1990 (pp. 1-19).  ISBN: 0155759914. 
  • Rachels, James, "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism" in The Elements of Moral Philosophy.  5th ed.  McGraw Hill, 2005 (pp. 20-36).  ISBN: 0073125474.
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