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The Meaning of Life

  • Tolstoy, Leo (1884), A Confession, Parts 4, 5, and 6.
  • Camus, Albert (1955), “The Myth of Sisyphus”, Chapter 4 of his The Myth of Sisyphus, J. O’Brien (tr.), London: H. Hamilton.
  • Nagel, Thomas (1971) “The Absurd”, Journal of Philosophy 68: 716-27.
  • Gordon, J., 1983, “Is the Existence of God Relevant to the Meaning of Life?” The Modern Schoolman, 60: 227-46.
  • Craig, W., 1994, “The Absurdity of Life Without God.” Reprinted in his Reasonable Faith, 2001.
  • Williams, B., 1973, “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality”, in his Problems of the Self, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 82-100.

Free Will

  • Sider, Ted (2005). “Free Will and Determinism.” Ch. 6 of Earl Conee and Ted Sider, Riddles of Existence, Oxford University Press.
  • Rée, Paul (1883). “Determinism and the Illusion of Moral Responsibility.” (Our copy comes from Paul Edwards and Arthur Pap (eds.), A Modern Introduction to Philosophy, 1972.)
  • Chisholm, Roderick (), “Human Freedom and the Self”
  • Lewis, David (1981), “Are We Free to Break the Laws?” Reprinted in his Philosophical Papers, Vol. II, Oxford University Press, 1986.
  • Van Inwagen, Peter (2008), “The Consequence Argument,” in Metaphysics: the Big Questions 2nd Ed., Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (eds.), Basil Blackwell.
  • Van Inwagen, Peter (2008), “The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom,” in Metaphysics: the Big Questions 2nd Ed., Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (eds.), Basil Blackwell.
  • Frankfurt, Harry (1971), “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person”, The Journal of Philosophy 68: 5-20
  • Watson, Gary (1975). “Free Agency,” Journal of Philosophy 72: 205-20.

Personal Identity

  • Locke (selections).
  • Williams, Bernard (1970). “The Self and the Future”, Philosophical Review 79.
  • Parfit, Derek (1971), “Personal Identity”, Philosophical Review 80: 3-27.
  • Lewis, David (1976), “Survival and Identity.” In Amelie O. Rorty, ed., The Identities of Persons, University of California Press. Reprinted with Postscripts in his Philosophical Papers, v. 1, Oxford University Press, 1983: 55—77.
  • Sider, Ted (2005). “Personal Identity Over Time.” Ch. 1 of Earl Conee and Ted Sider, Riddles of Existence, Oxford University Press.

Material Constitution