Preface Source Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction: Philosophical Analysis, Argument, and the Relevance of Thought Experiments Films: Monty Python, The Argument Skit; Pulp Fiction; Seinfeld episode: The Soup Part II: The Problem of Perception Films: Total Recall; The Matrix; Star Trek TV episode: The Menagerie Introduction 1. First Meditation and excerpt from Sixth Meditation: Rene Descartes 2. Some Further Considerations Concerning Our Simple Ideas of Sensation: John Locke 3. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous: George Berkeley 4. Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy: David Hume 5. The Self and the Common World: A. J. Ayer 6. Brains in a Vat: Hilary Putnam 7. The Structure of Skeptical Arguments and its Metaepistemological Implications: Richard Fumerton 8. The Experience Machine: Robert Nozick Part III: Philosophy of Mind Films: What Dreams May Come; Bicentennial Man; Heaven Can Wait; The Sixth Day; The Prestige; Multiplicity; Star Trek TV episode: Turn About Intruder Introduction 9. Second Meditation: Rene Descartes 10. Descartes' Myth: Gilbert Ryle 11. Sensations and Brain Processes: J. J. C. Smart 12. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?: Thomas Nagel 13. What Mary Didn't Know: Frank Jackson 14. Minds, Brains, and Programs: John R. Searle 15. Mad Pain and Martian Pain: David Lewis 16. Eliminative Materialism: Paul Churchland 17. Of Identity and Diversity: John Locke 18. The Self and the Future: Bernard Williams 19. From Reasons and Persons: Derek Parfit 20. A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality: John Perry 21. On the Immortality of the Soul: David Hume Part IV: Ethics A. Act Consequentialism and its Critics Films: Abandon Ship!; Fail Safe; Dirty Harry; Sophie's Choice; Saving Private Ryan; Judgment at Nuremberg; Minority Report: 24 (Season 3: 6.00-7.00 a.m.); Titanic; Vertical Limit Introduction 22. Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill 23. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: Immanuel Kant 24. What Makes Right Acts Right?: W. D. Ross 25. A Critique of Utilitarianism: Bernard Williams 26. An Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics: J. J. C. Smart 27. Intending Harm: Shelly Kagan 28. United States v. Holmes (1842) 29. The Queen v Dudley and Stephens 30. War and Massacre: Thomas Nagel B. Obligations to Intimates Films: The English Patient; Casablanca; The Third Man; The Music Box; High Noon; Nick of Time; 24 (Season 1: 7.00-8.00 a.m.) Introduction 31. From Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle 32. Self and Others: C. D. Broad 33. Filial Morality: Christina Hoff Sommers 34. Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality: Peter Railton 35. Relatives and Relativism: Diane Jeske and Richard Fumerton 36. Families, Friends, and Special Obligations: Diane Jeske 37. An Ethic of Caring: Nel Noddings Part V: Philosophy of Time Films: Somewhere in Time; Back to the Future; Planet of the Apes; Frequency; A Sound of Thunder Introduction 38. Making Things to 39. Space and Time: Richard Taylor 40. The Paradoxes of Time Travel: David Lewis Part VI: Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Determinism Films: Minority Report: The Boys From Brazil: A Clockwork Orange: The Omen: Compulsion: Law and Order (black rage defense), Season 5, Episode 69414, Rage (2/01/95) Introduction 41. From De Interpretatione: Aristotle 42. Of Liberty and Necessity: David Hume 43. Meaning and Free Will: John Hospers 44. Determinism: J. R. Lucas 45. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person: Harry G. Frankfurt 46. The M'Naghten Rules (1843): House of Lords 47. The Insanity Defense (1956): The American Law Institute 48. What Is So Special About Mental Illness?: Joel Feinberg Part VII: Philosophy of Religion Films: Jason and the Argonauts; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; Dogma; YouTube: Mr Deity and the Evil Introduction 49. The Wager: Blaise Pascal 50. The Ontological Argument: Anselm 51. The Cosmological and Design Arguments: William L. Rowe 52. Evil and Omnipotence: J. L. Mackie 53. Why I Am Not a Christian: Bertrand Russell
