Main Readings

Introductory

Introductory Reading (pdf)

Philosophy Dictionary (pdf)

Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning

• Frankl Reading (pdf)
• Free audiobook of the Frankl reading (link)
• Reading questions for pages 16 - 40 (pdf)
• Reading questions for pages 41 - 79 (pdf)
• Reading questions for pages 80 - 115 (pdf)
• Bailey reading (pdf)
• Bailey handout (pdf)

Objectivists

• Wolf reading (pdf) / Wolf handout (pdf)
• Craig reading (Part 2 only) (pdf) / Craig handout (pdf).
• Cottingham reading (pdf) / Cottingham handout (pdf)

Subjectivists

• Taylor reading (pdf) / Taylor handout (pdf)
• Trisel reading (pdf) / Trisel handout here
• Kierkagaard reading (Ch21 only) (pdf) / Kierkagaard handout (pdf)

Absurdists

• Nagel reading (book) (pdf) / Nagel handout(pdf)
• Camus reading (section 3 only) (pdf)

Summary Table

• To view a table summarizing and categorizing each of our main authors, click here.

Additional Readings

Textbooks

• Oxford Hanbout on Meaning in Life (pdf)
• Earl Connee and Theodore Sider intoduction to metaphysics (pdf)

Conciousness

• Jackson reading (pdf)
• Nagel reading (article) (pdf)

Value Theory

• Mill reading (pdf)
• Nozick reading (Ch10 only) (pdf)

The Problem of Evil

• Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion (Ch7 only) (pdf)

Ethics Overview

• Very early draft of my ethics textbook (read the introduction, and the sections on Virtue Theory, Utilitarianism, and Kantianism) (pdf)