The Reading Room

Sapere Aude.

Immanuel Kant

The Importance of Philosophy

“The Indestructible Questions,” T.Z. Lavine

“The Value of Philosophy,” Bertrand Russell

Metaphysics

“Euthyphro,” Plato

Confessions, St. Augustine

“Appearance and Reality,” Bertrand Russell

“Two Meditations,” Rene Descartes

Discourse on the Method, Rene Descartes

“Can We Know the Universe?” Carl Sagan

“Thales’s Well,” Nicholas Fern

“An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,” David Hume

“Relativism: Finding and Making” Richard Rorty

Theology

“The Ontological Argument,” St. Anselm

“Five Ways to Prove That God Exists,” St. Thomas Aquinas

“The Wager,” Blaise Pascal

“God, Evil, and the Best of All Possible Worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz

“Why I Am Not a Christian,” Bertrand Russell

“Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God,” John Perry

Identity

“Where Am I?” Daniel Dennett

“A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality,” John Perry