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Anselm: The Ontological Argument (from Proslogium)
Aquinas: On Voluntary Action (from Summa Theologica)
Aristotle: De Anima (selections)
Aristotle: Metaphysics (selections)
Aristotle: On Fatalism (selections from On Interpretation; Nicomachean Ethics)
Aristotle: Time is the Measure of Change (selections from Physics)
Augustine: On Time (from Confessions)
Bisson: They’re Made out of Meat
Beauvoir: “Woman as Other” from The Second Sex
Borges: Borges and I
Borges: The Library of Babel
Asimov: The Last Question
Bradbury: A Sound of Thunder
Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
Clynes: Cyborgs in Space
Dennett: I could not have done otherwise, so what?
Dennett: Where am I?
Descartes: Second Meditation
Feuerbach: The Essence of Religion in General from The Essence of Christianity
Gaunilo: In Behalf of the Fool
Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto
Heinlein: All You Zombies!
Hauser: Why isn’t my pocket calculator a thinking thing?
Keller & Nelson: Presentists Should believe in Time-Travel
Kunzru: You are Cyborg
Leiber: Space-Time for Springers
Lewis: The Paradoxes of Time Travel (pg. 67-80)
Locke: Of Identity & Diversity
Nagel: Death
Nagel: What is it like to be a bat?
Plato: Phaedo (selections)
Plutarch: The Ship of Theseus
Putnam: Brains in a Vat
Rowe: The Cosmological Argument
Swinburne: The Justification of Theism
McTaggart: The Unreality of Time
Lewis: Paradoxes of Time Travel
Williams: The Myth of Passage