Philosophy Faculty Reading List 2012-2013 PART IA PAPER 04: SET TEXTS

SYLLABUS Plato, Meno Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion J. S. Mill, On Liberty and The Subjection of Women

The set texts are required reading. Material marked with an asterisk* is a good place to start.

PLATO: MENO Two reliable translations can be found in: PLATO, Five Dialogues, translated by G.M.A. Grube. 2nd ed. (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 2002). PLATO, Protagoras and Meno, translated by W.K.C. Guthrie (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1956). Background Reading *SCOTT, D., Plato's Meno (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). [Essential study of the whole dialogue. Also available online at: www.mylibrary.com/?id=43235] DANCY, R., Plato's Introduction of Forms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), chs. 1-9. [Especially ch. 9] DAY, J., ed., Plato's Meno in Focus (London: Routledge, 1994). [Various essays; especially Crombie, Moravcsik, Nehamas. Also available online at: http://bit.ly/day1994] KAHN, C., Plato and the Socratic Dialogue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), chs. 6 & 10, pp. 309-313. SCOTT, D., Recollection and Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 3-52. WEISS, R., Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). [Also available online at: www.oxfordscholarship.com] Virtue, Knowledge and Definition *CHARLES, D., 'Types of Definition in the Meno', in L. Judson and V. Karasmanis, eds., Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 110-28. [Available online at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/?id=75529]
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*KARASMANIS, V., 'Definition in Plato's Meno', in L. Judson and V. Karasmanis, eds., Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 129-41. [Also available online at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/?id=75529] *PENNER, T., 'The Unity of Virtue', Philosophical Review, 38 (1973): 35-68. Reprinted in H. Benson, ed., Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 161-84. *VLASTOS, G., 'The Socratic Elenchus', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 1 (1983): 27-58. Reprinted in M. Burnyeat, ed., Socratic Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), ch. 1. Also in G. Fine, ed., Plato 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 36-63. [Also available on Camtools] BENSON, H., 'On Misunderstanding the 'What Is F-Ness?' Question', Archiv fr Geschichte der Philosophie, 72 (1992): 125-42. Reprinted in H. Benson, ed., Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 123-56. BEVERSLUIS, J., 'Does Socrates Commit the Socratic Fallacy?' American Philosophical Quarterly, 24 (1987): 211-23. Reprinted in H. Benson, ed., Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 107-22. DESJARDINS, R., 'Knowledge and Virtue: Paradox in Plato's Meno', Review of Metaphysics, 39 (1985): 261-81. WOLFSDORF, D., 'Socrates' Pursuit of Definitions', Phronesis, 48 (2003): 271-312. Recollection and True Belief vs. Knowledge *BENSON, H., 'The Method of Hypothesis in the Meno', Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy, 18 (2003): 95-126. [Also available on Camtools] *FINE, G., 'Inquiry in the Meno', in R. Kraut, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 200-26. [Also available online at: http://cco.cambridge.org] *FINE, G., 'Knowledge and True Belief in Meno', in D. Sedley, ed., Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 27 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 41-81. [Also available on Camtools] *VLASTOS, G., 'Anamnesis in the Meno', Dialogue, 4 (1965): 143-67. Reprinted in his Studies in Greek Philosophy. Vol 2 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995), pp. 147-65. LLOYD, G.E.R., 'The Meno and the Mysteries of Mathematics', Phronesis, 37 (1992): 166-83. NEHAMAS, A., 'Meno's Paradox and Socrates as a Teacher', in J. Annas, ed., Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 1-30. Reprinted in J. Day, ed., Plato's Meno in Focus (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 221-248. [Also available online at: http://bit.ly/day1994]

HUME, DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION *HUME, D., Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, edited by D. Coleman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). [This is the preferred edition. Also available online at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/?id=85059] Other usable editions include: HUME, D., Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, edited by M. Bell (London: Penguin, 1990). HUME, D., Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Posthumous Essays, edited by R.H. Popkin (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1980). HUME, D., Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; and, the Natural History of Religion, edited by J.C.A. Gaskin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). Online Texts

Hume. 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 209-37. [Also available online at: http://cco.cambridge.org] *HUME, D., Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Parts 1-3. HUME, D., Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Parts 4, 5 & 12. STROUD, B., Hume (London: Routledge, 1977), ch. 10. Hume's View of Science and Causal Reasoning BEEBEE, H., Hume on Causation (London: Routledge, 2006), chs. 1 & 2. MILLICAN, P., 'Against the New Hume', in R. Read and K. Richman, eds., The New Hume Debate. Rev. ed. (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 211-52. [Also available online at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/?id=4981] RICHMAN, K., 'Debating the New Hume', in R. Read and K. Richman, eds., The New Hume Debate. Rev. ed. (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 1-15. [Also available online at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/?id=4981] The Argument to Design

Jonathan Bennetts, Early Modern Philosophy website: www.earlymoderntexts.com also provides a modernised and annotated version of Humes Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. The Complete Works and Correspondence of David Hume are also available from Intelex: http://pm.nlx.com. General Reading *BLACKBURN, S., How to Read Hume (London: Granta Books, 2008). *O'CONNOR, D., Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Religion (London: Routledge, 2001). [A good introduction] CHAPPELL, V.C., ed., Hume: A Collection of Critical Essays (London: Macmillan, 1966). [Essays by Popkin on Hume's scepticism and the three essays on Hume's views on religion] CRAIG, E.J., Hume on Religion (Rastrapati Niwas, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 1997). GASKIN, J.C.A., Hume's Philosophy of Religion. 2 ed. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988). HOLDEN, T., Spectres of False Divinity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). NORTON, D.F., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Hume (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993; 2nd ed. 2008). [Also available online at: http://cco.cambridge.org] READ, R., and K. RICHMAN, The New Hume Debate. Rev. ed. (London: Routledge, 2008). [Also available online at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/?id=4981] Selection of Topics Hume and Scepticism *BLACKBURN, S., How to Read Hume (London: Granta Books, 2008), chs. 2 & 3. *FOGELIN, R., 'Hume's Skepticism', in D.F. Norton, ed., The Cambridge Companion to
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*HUME, D., Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Parts 1-8. *HUME, D., Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Part 11. *O'CONNOR, D., Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Religion (London: Routledge, 2001), chs. 4-6. KEMP SMITH, N., 'Introduction', in D. Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (London: Nelson, 1947), pp. 45-75. SWINBURNE, R.G., 'The Argument from Design', Philosophy, 43 (1968): 199-212. The Cosmological Argument *HUME, D., Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 9. *MACKIE, J.L.M., The Miracle of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982), ch. 5. LEIBNITZ, G.W.F., 'Principles of Nature and of Grace', in his The Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings, translated by R. Latta, sects. 7-9. Also in Philosophical Texts translated by R. Francks and R.S. Woolhouse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), and in other collections. A modernised and annotated version available from www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdf/leibprin.pdf. NOZICK, R., Philosophical Explanations (Oxford: Clarendon, 1981), ch. 2. The Problem of Evil and Moral Issues *HUME, D., Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Part 11. *O'CONNOR, D., Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Religion (London: Routledge, 2001), chs. 9 & 10. HUME, D., Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Parts 10 & 11. MACKIE, J.L.M., The Miracle of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982), chs. 6 & 9.

Which Character is Hume? *HUME, D., Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Parts 9-12. *HUME, D., Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Part 11. *MOSSNER, E., 'The Enigma of Hume', Mind, 45 (1936): 334-49. *O'CONNOR, D., Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Religion (London: Routledge, 2001), ch. 10. GASKIN, J.C.A., Hume's Philosophy of Religion. 2 ed. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988), ch. 10.

TEN, C.L., Mill's on Liberty: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). [Also available online at: http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511575181] Selection of Topics The Harm Principle MILL, J.S., On Liberty, chs. 1, 4 and 5. *GRAY, J., Mill on Liberty: A Defence (London: Routledge, 1983), chs. 1 & 3. *TEN, C.L., Mill on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), ch. 4. [Also available online at: www.victorianweb.org/philosophy/mill/ten/contents.html] FEINBERG, J., Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty: Essays in Social Philosophy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980), chs. 2 & 3. HORTON, J., 'Toleration, Morality, and the Harm', in J. Horton and S. Mendus, eds., Aspects of Toleration: Philosophical Studies (London: Methuen, 1985), pp. 113-35. REES, J., John Stuart Mill's on Liberty: Constructed from Published and Unpublished Sources by G.L. Williams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), ch. 5. Free Speech and Offence MILL, J.S., On Liberty, ch. 2. *DEVLIN, P., The Enforcement of Morals (Oxford: Oxford University Pres, 1965). *DWORKIN, R., 'Liberty and Moralism', in his Taking Rights Seriously (London: Duckworth, 1977), pp. 240-58. [Also available on Camtools] *HART, H., Law, Liberty, and Morality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963), ch. 1. DYZENHAUS, D., 'John Stuart Mill and the Harm of Pornography', Ethics, 102 (1992): 534-51. Reprinted in G. Dworkin, ed., Mill's On Liberty: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), pp. 31-53. [See Skipper (below) for a response] FEINBERG, J., 'Profound Offense', in his The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Vol. 2 Offense to Others (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 50-72. Reprinted in G. Dworkin, ed., Mill's On Liberty: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), pp. 137-66. [Alao available online at: www.oxfordscholarship.com] GRAY, J., Mill on Liberty: A Defence (London: Routledge, 1983), ch. 8. SCANLON, T., 'A Theory of Freedom of Expression', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1 (1972): 204-26. Reprinted in R. Dworkin, ed., Philosophy of Law ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), pp. 153-71. SKIPPER, R., 'Mill and Pornography', Ethics, 103 (1993): 726-30. Reprinted in G. Dworkin, ed., Mill's On Liberty: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), pp. 55-60. [Critique of Dyzenhaus's 'Mill and Pornography'] TEN, C.L., Mill on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), ch. 8. [Also available online at: www.victorianweb.org/philosophy/mill/ten/contents.html] Individuality and Progress MILL, J.S., On Liberty, ch. 3. MILL, J.S., The Subjection of Women, ch. 4.
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JOHN STUART MILL, ON LIBERTY AND THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN Set Texts MILL, J.S., On Liberty. [Also available online at: http://infomotions.com/etexts/philosophy/1800-1899/mill-on-215.htm] MILL, J.S., The Subjection of Women. [Also available online at: http://infomotions.com/etexts/philosophy/1800-1899/mill-subjection-217.htm] Many editions of both texts are available. One recommended edition which combines both works is: MILL, J.S., On Liberty and Other Writings, edited by S. Collini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Other works by Mill of interest and relevance are: MILL, J.S., Autobiography (London: Penguin, 1999). [Also available online at: http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/0/3/7/10378/10378.htm] MILL, J.S., Utilitarianism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). [Also available online at: http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/1/2/2/11224/11224.htm] General Reading *DWORKIN, G., Mill's on Liberty: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997). *MORALES, M.H., ed., Mill's the Subjection of Women: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). *RILEY, J., Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Mill on Liberty (London: Routledge, 1998). [A good introduction] GRAY, J., and G.W. SMITH, eds., J.S. Mill's on Liberty in Focus (London: Routledge, 1991). [Also available online at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/?id=32359] SKORUPSKI, J., Why Read Mill Today? (London: Routledge, 2006). TEN, C.L., Mill on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980). [Also available online at: www.victorianweb.org/philosophy/mill/ten/contents.html]
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*MILL, J.S., Utilitarianism, ch. 2. *BERLIN, I., 'John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life', in his Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969). [Also available online at: www.oxfordscholarship.com] GRAY, J., Mill on Liberty: A Defence (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983). HOWES, J., 'Mill on Women and Moral Development', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Supp. 64 (1986): 66-74. Reprinted in M. Morales, ed., Mill's The Subjection of Women: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), pp. 13-23. LADENSON, R.F., 'Mill's Conception of Individuality', Social Theory and Practice, 4 (1977): 167-82. OKIN, S.M., 'John Stuart Mills Feminism: 'the Subjection of Women and the Improvement of Mankind'', The New Zealand Journal of History, 7, no. 2 (1973): 105-27. Reprinted in M. Morales, ed., Mill's The Subjection of Women: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), pp. 24-51. [Freely available at: www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz] TEN, C.L., Mill on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), ch. 5. Legal Paternalism MILL, J.S., On Liberty, chs. 4 & 5. *ARNESON, R.J., 'Mill Versus Paternalism', Ethics, 90 (1980): 470-89. *DWORKIN, G., 'Paternalism', The Monist, 56 (1972): 64-84. Reprinted in G. Dworkin, ed., Mill's on Liberty: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), pp. 61-82. FEINBERG, J., 'Legal Paternalism', in his Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty: Essays in Social Philosophy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980), pp. 110-29. GRAY, J., Mill on Liberty: A Defence (London: Routledge, 1983), ch. 5. HODSON, J., 'The Principle of Paternalism', American Philosophical Quarterly, 14 (1977): 61-69. TEN, C.L., Mill on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), ch. 7. Sex and Gender, Nature and Nurture MILL, J.S., The Subjection of Women, ch. 1. ANNAS, J., 'Mill and the Subjection of Women', Philosophy, 52 (1977): 179-94. Reprinted in M. Morales, ed., Mill's The Subjection of Women (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), pp. 52-70. BURGESS-JACKSON, K., 'John Stuart Mill, Radical Feminist', Social Theory and Practice, 21, no. 3 (1995): 389-96. Reprinted in M. Morales, ed., Mill's The Subjection of Women (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), pp. 71-97. OKIN, S.M., 'John Stuart Mill: Liberal Feminist', in her Women in Western Political Thought (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979), pp. 197-230. PYLE, A., ed., The Subjection of Women: Contemporary Responses to John Stuart Mill (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1995). STOVE, D., 'The Subjection of John Stuart Mill', Philosophy, 68 (1993): 5-13.
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Marriage, Family and Employment MILL, J.S., The Subjection of Women, chs. 2 & 3. *MORALES, M.H., 'The Corrupting Influence of Power', in Mill's the Subjection of Women: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), pp. 98-113. *SHANLEY, M.L., 'Marital Slavery and Friendship', Political Theory, 9 (1981): 229-47. Reprinted in M.L. Shanley and C. Pateman, eds., Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory (Cambridge: Polity, 1991). Also in M.H. Morales, Mill's The Subjection of Women: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), pp. 114-34. MENDUS, S., 'The Marriage of True Minds', in S. Mendus and J. Randall, eds., Sexuality and Subordination (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 171-91. Reprinted in M.H. Morales, ed., Mill's The Subjection of Women: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), pp. 135-56. URBINATI, N., 'John Stuart Mill on Androgyny and Ideal Marriage', Political Theory, 19 (1991): 626-48. Reprinted in M.H. Morales, ed., Mill's The Subjection of Women: Critical Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), pp. 157-82.