Great Ideas of Philosophy

———. Toward a Science of Human Nature: Essays on the Psychologies of Mill, Hegel, Wundt, and James. NewYork: Columbia University Press, 1982. Summaries and appraisals of four who dominated 19 th -century thought onthe nature of mind and mental life.———. Wild Beasts and Idle Humours. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Historical review of thelegal conception of mental competence from remote antiquity to modern times, with emphasis on the insanitydefense.Rorty, A., ed. Essays in Aristotle’s Ethics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Fine interpretive essaysare offered, illuminating the often subtle aspects of Aristotle’s ethical theory.Rossiter, C. The Federalist Papers. Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1963.Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract and Discourses. London: Dent, 1993. The history of the law’sconception of mind in health and disease.Ruskin, J. The Stones of Venice. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Eldeer & Co., 1853. This work did much to restore interestin and admiration for the “Gothic”; a work by the leading aesthete of Victorian England and one of the greatest ofprose writers.Stace, Walter Terence. The Philosophy of Hegel: A Systematic Exposition. New York: Dover, 1955. This is not aHegel for beginners, but it is a good introduction to Hegel’s phenomenology.Sulloway, F. Freud: Biologist of the Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1979. By far the best study of Freud asscientist, as aspiring scientific theorist.Swinburne, R. Providence and the Problem of Evil. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. How is the problemof evil to be understood? The author sees “evil” as permitted on the grounds that it improves all who must contendwith it.Turing, A. “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” In Mind, 1950. Vol. 59.Vernant, Jean Pierre, ed. The Greeks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Scholars specializing in differentaspects of ancient Greek thought offer rich interpretive essays on the major aspects of that culture.Voltaire. Philosophical Letters (downloadable at www.classicsnetwork.com). Voltaire’s comparisons of Englishand French culture, custom, and science were powerfully influential.Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Major theories of “just war” are consideredand appraised.Walzer, Richard. Greek into Arabic: Essays on Islamic Philosophy. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,1970. Islamic philosophy, replete with its Greek inspirations.Westfall, Richard. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Theauthoritative biography of a universal genius.Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1997. For all “flies” seeking anexit from the bottle!Xenophon. Memorabilia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. Socrates as known by a friend and neighbor.Yates, Frances. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.Renaissance science and its shifting movements away from and back toward mysticism.Yolton, John. Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Minneapolis: University of MinnesotaPress, 1983. The arguments of Locke, Priestley, Hartley et al. toward a materialist theory of mind.Young, R. Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970. Theauthor locates the brain sciences within the larger Darwinian context of the second half of the nineteenth century,but with close attention to anticipations.Internet Resources:www.Epistemelinks.com. Best source for basic materials in philosophy.http://www.epistemelinks.com/index.aspxhttp://plato.stanford.edu/contents46©2004 The Teaching Company Limited Partnership