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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?

 

 

Newton: Space, Time & Motion    

 

 

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