Study Questions for:

Philosophical Inquiry
Classic and Contemporary Readings

Edited, with Introductions,
by Jonathan E. Adler and Catherine Z. Elgin

THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
    •    Plato, Meno
    •    Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
    •    Locke, Origins of Our Ideas and Knowledge, and Berkeley, Three Dialogues
         Between Hylas and Philonous
    •    Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    •    Russell, "On Induction"

METAPHYSICS
    •    Locke, "On Identity" and Reid, "Of Identity"

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
    •    Nagel, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

ETHICS
    •    Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
    •    Mill, "Understanding and Defending Utilitarianism"
    •    Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
    •    Hobbes, Leviathan, and Locke, "The Social Contract"

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