World Philosophy Day 2014

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World Philosophy Day 2014

In celebration of the UNESCO World Philosophy Day this year, we have brought together a selection of some of our most popular quality research from across the discipline. All of the featured articles are freely available to download until mid-December – so don’t miss out! Click the links below to start reading now!

Featured Books

Classical Philosophy A history of philosophy without any gaps

Peter Adamson
Berkeley's Puzzle What Does Experience Teach Us?

John Campbell and Quassim Cassam
Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes
Philosophy of Social Science
A New Introduction

Nancy Cartwright and Eleonora Montuschi
The Point of View of the Universe Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics

Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer
Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction

W. J.Mander
Moral Conscience through the Ages Fifth Century BCE to the Present

Richard Sorabji
Context

Robert Stalnaker
Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception

John Searle
In Praise of Intransigence

Richard H. Weisberg
In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence

Kendall L. Walton
The Ethics of Captivity

Lori Gruen

Free Journal Articles

Explore our free journals articles for World Philosophy Day by browsing from the selection below.

The Philosophical Quarterly

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

The Identity of a Material Thing and its Matter
Mahrad Almotahari
Winner of the PQ Essay Prize, 2013

Kant on Perception: Naïve Realism, Non-Conceptualism, and the B-Deduction
Anil Gomes

What Makes a Scientific Explanation Distinctively Mathematical?
Marc Lange
Selected for the best ten articles list in The Philosopher's Annual

Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)? Bradford Skow

Kuhn's Changing Concept of Incommensurability Howard Sankey

Mind

Public Health Ethics (PHE)

Computing Machinery and Intelligence
A.M. Turing

What is an Emotion?
William James

Ethics, Tuberculosis and Globalization Michael J. Selgelid

The Goals of Public Health: An Integrated, Multidimensional Model
Christian Munthe

Analysis

British Journal of Aesthetics

How to solve the hardest logic puzzle ever in two questions Gabriel Uzquiano

Just go ahead and lie Jennifer Saul

Kierkegaard: Aesthetics and 'The Aesthetic’
George Pattison

Appropriation and Authorship in Contemporary Art
Sherri Irvin

Philosophia Mathematica

Christian Bioethics

A Nominalist's Dilemma and its Solution Otávio Bueno and Edward N. Zalta

Carnap, Gödel, and the Analyticity of Arithmetic Neil Tennant

Reframing the Relevance of Calvinism and the Reformed Tradition for 21st Century Bioethics
Jon C. Tilburt and Katherine M. Humeniuk

Natural Law among Moral Strangers
Boaz Goss and Rico Vitz

The Recent History of Christian Bioethics Critically Reassessed
H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Use of a Patient Preference Predictor to Help Make Medical Decisions for Incapacitated Patients
Annette Rid and David Wendler

Phenomenology as a Resource for Patients
Havi Carel

Organ Transplantation and Personal Identity: How Does Loss and Change of Organs Affect the Self?
Fredrik Svenaeus

Other Free Resources

American National Biography		African American Studies Center
	Sarah Margaret Fuller W.E.B. DuBois William James Hannah Arendt Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson		Huey P Newton William Fontaine Angela Davis Cornel West

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography		Encyclopedia of Social Work
	John Locke David Hume Karl Marx		Porter Raymond Lee

Electronic Enlightenment sample letters...			Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
This letter between Jean Jacques Rousseau and James Boswell is provided in its original French David Hume writes to Adam Smith about his health (and Smith's The Wealth of Nations) Jeremy Bentham expounds the virtues of Browning Hill bread to John Mulford			Leibniz's 'New System' and Associated Contemporary Texts, Appendix A. Leibniz Letter to Bossuet, Hanover, 2 July 1694 The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke: An Essay concerning Toleration : And Other Writings on Law and Politics, 1667–1683, An Essay concerning Toleration 1667

Very Short Introductions Online
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 1. What is science? Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 2. What should I do?: Plato’s Crito