PART 1 History of Philosophy and Science
A Selection of Basic Texts for Ex.Phil. in English, 2015
- Plato: The Meno
- Plato: The Republic (From Book V)
- Aristotle: Metaphysics (From Book A, ch 1 and 2)
- Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics (Book 1, ch 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8)
- Aristotle: On the Soul (From Book II)
- Aristotle: Politics (From Part XII and XIII)
- Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (Meditations 1 and 2)
- Descartes: Discourse on Method (Short extract from part 5)
- Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature (”An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”)
- Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature (From Book III, Of Morals)
- Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature (”Of Chastity and Modesty”)
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (From ”Preface to Second Edition”)
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (From ”Introduction to the Second Edition”)
- Kant: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (First Section)
- Kant: Anthropology (”The Character of the Sexes”)
- De Beauvoir: The Second Sex (Introduction)
- Mayr: What Makes Biology Unique? (Chapter 2)
- Heisenberg: The Physicist’s Conception of Nature (”Atomic Physics and Causal Law”)
PART 2 Ethics
Basic Texts for Examen Philosophicum in English, 2015
- Feldman, Fred: Relativism
- Smart, JJC: Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics
- Fried, Charles: Right and Wrong
- Hursthouse, Rosalind: Virtue Theory and Abortion
- Friedman, Marilyn: Feminism in Ethics
- Singer: Taking Life. The Embryo and the Fetus
- Singer: All Animals are Equal
- Singer: The Environment