Table of Contents

Three Short Philosophy Papers on Human Freedom

The Paradox of Religions Institutions

Different Perspectives on Religious Belief: O’Reilly v. Dawkins. v. James v. Clifford

Schopenhauer on Suicide

Schopenhauer’s Fractal Conception of Reality

Theodore Roszak’s Views on Bicameral Consciousness

Philosophy Exam Questions and Answers

Locke, Aristotle and Kant on Virtue

Logic Lecture for Erika

Kant’s Ethics

Van Cleve on Epistemic Circularity

Plato’s Theory of Forms

Can we trust our senses? Yes we can

Descartes on What He Believes Himself to Be

The Role of Values in Science

Modern Science

Kant’s Moral Philosophy

Plato’s Republic as Pol Potist Bureaucracy

Schopenhauer on Human Suffering

Bertrand Russell on the Value of Philosophy

The Philosophical Value of Uncertainty

Logic Homework: Theorems and Models

Searle vs. Turing on the Imitation Game

Hume, Frankfurt, and Holbach on Personal Freedom

Manifesto of the University of Wisconsin, Madison Secular Society

Michael’s Analysis of the Limits of Civil Protections

Bentham and Mill on Different Types of Pleasure

Set Theory Homework

Aristotle on Virtue

Nagel On the Hard Problem

Wittgenstein on Language and Thought

Camus and Schopenhauer on the Meaning of Life

Camus’ Hero as Rebel without a Cause

My Little Finger: Camus’ Absurdism Illustrated

Are Late-term Abortions Ethical?

Does Mathematics Assume the Truth of Platonism?

The Self-defeating Nature of Utilitarianism and Consequentialism Generally

What is The Good Life?

Bentham and Mill regarding types of pleasures

Kant’s Moral Philosophy

Five Short Papers on Mind-body Dualism

Tracy Latimer’s Father had the Right to Kill Her: Towards a doctrine of generalized self-defense

Arguments Concerning God and Morality

Goldman, Rousseau and von Hayek on the Ideal State

J.S Mill on Liberty and Personal Freedom

A Kantian Analysis of a Borderline Date-rape Situation

Living Well as Flourishing: Aristotle’s Conception of the Good Life

Three Essays on Medical Ethics: Answers to Exam Questions on Elective Amputation, Vaccination, and Informed Consent

Hobbes, Marx, Rousseau, Nietzsche: Their Central Themes

De Tocqueville on Egoism

Mill vs. Hobbes on Liberty

Exam-Essays on the Moral Systems of Mill, Bentham, and Kant

Kant’s Moral System

Aristotle on Virtue

Plato’s Cave Allegory

An Ethical Quandary

Superorganisms

The Tuskegee Experiment A Rawlsian Analysis

Why Moore’s Proof of an External World Fails

A Defense of Nagel’s Argument Against Materialism

A Utilitarian Analysis of a Case of Theft

The Paradox of the Self-aware Wretch: An Analysis of Pascal’s Moral Philosophy

Jean-Paul Sartre: Decline and Fall of a Marxist Sell-out

A One Page Proof of Plato’s Theory of Forms

Plato’s Republic as Pol Potist Bureaucracy

The problem of the one and the many

Four Short Essays on Truth and Knowledge

What is ‘the Good Life?’

The Ontological Argument

Different Political Philosophies: Plato, Locke, Madison, Rousseau, Hayek, and Mill on the State

What do I know with certainty?

Skepticism about skepticism

Neuroscience and Freewill

Operant Conditioning

What makes us special?

Are Late-term Abortions Ethical? No

Two Papers on Epistemology: Gettier and Bostrom Examination

Nietzsche on Punishment

God’s Foreknowledge and Moral Responsibility