Second Edition - Adam Morton

Teacher's Guide - Reading List

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Reading: At the end of each chapter there is a reading list. Some of the books mentioned are too difficult for the average first-year student. (But remember, some of your class are not average first-year students.) If I had to choose 20 books to put on a library reserve list to accompany a course derived from this book (especially Parts I and II) my list would be:

Annas, Julia. An Introduction to Plato's Republic.
Bunnin, Nicholas, and Eric James. The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy.
Chalmers, A. F. What is this Thing called Science?
Cottingham, John. Rationalism.
Cottingham, John (ed.). Western Philosophy: An Anthology.
Harman, Gilbert. The Nature of Morality.
Hempel, C. G. Philosophy of Natural Science.
Hume, David. Inquiries.
Hume, David. Dialogues on Natural Religion.
Le Poidevin, Robin. Arguing for Atheism.
Mackie, J. L. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong.
Martin, Robert M. There are Two Errors in the Title of this Book.
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty.
Nagel, Thomas. What does it all Mean?
O'Neill, Onora. Acting on Principle.
Singer, Peter . Practical Ethics.
Stroud, Barry. Hume.
Taylor, Richard. Metaphysics.
Turnbull, Colin. The Mountain People.
Woolhouse, R. E. The Empiricists.

Of course, you may want to make a different selection from the full bibliography of the book, depending on the course you are giving.