Reading List for PHI356 Philosophical Projects II (Spring 2014)

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: 547-588.

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

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): 525-

551.

Mallon, R. 2007, “A Field Guide to Social Construction,” Philosophy Compass 2 (1): 93-

108.

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

AristotlePosterior Analytics Bk 2

Metaphysics Bks. 7,8 (= Z,H)

Charles, DavidAristotle on Meaning and Essence Oxford: Clarendon Press 2000

Kripke, SaulNaming and NecessityOxford: 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