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Readings for Novy’s PHIL3370: Metaphysics SP06

Anselm: Ontological Argument

Aquinas: On Voluntary Action

Aristotle: De Anima

Aristotle: Metaphysics

Aristotle: On Fatalism

Aristotle: On Time

Assy: Eichmann, Banality of Evil & Thinking Arendt’s Thought

Augustine: Confessions

Beauvoir: “Introduction” to The Second Sex

Bisson: They’re Made out of Meat

Black: Achilles and the Tortoise (On Reserve & E-Reserve)

Borges: Borges and I

Borges: The Library of Babel

Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus

Clynes: Cyborgs in Space

Dennett: Did HAL Commit Murder?

Dennett: I could not have done otherwise, so what? (J-Stor)

Dennett: The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity

Dennett: Where am I?

Descartes: Second Meditation

Emerson: The Comic

Foucault: The Order of Things

Frana: The Artificial Other

Gaunilo: In Behalf of the Fool

Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto

Hauser: Why isn’t my Pocket Calculator a Thinking Thing?

Heinlein: All You Zombies!

Knox: Towards a Philosophy of Humor (J-Stor)

Kunzru: You are Cyborg

Lanier: You Can’t Argue with a Zombie

Leiber: Space-Time for Springers

Lewis: Paradoxes of Time Travel (On Reserve & E-Reserve)

Locke: Of Identity & Diversity

McTaggart: The Unreality of Time

Moody: Conversations with Zombies

Nagel: What is it like to be a bat?

Newton: On Time

Paley: Teleological Argument

Park: The Function of Fiction (J-Stor)

Parmenides: On Nature

Plato: Phaedo

Plutarch: The Ship of Theseus

Putnam: Brains in a Vat

Rowe: Cosmological Argument (J-Stor)

Sober: Creationism (On Reserve & E-Reserve)

Stevens: Anecdote of the Jar

Swirl: Everything is Better with Monkeys

Wannsee Protocol

Williams: The Myth of Passage (J-Stor)