What is philosophy? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley -- Defence of Socrates / Plato -- Scope of logic / Wesley C. Salmon -- Improving your thinking / Stephen F. Barker -- Fixing belief / Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel -- Testing hypotheses / Stephen M. Cahn, Patricia Kitcher, and George Sher -- Science and common sense / Ernest Nagel -- Appearance and reality / Bertrand Russell -- What can I know? / D.Z. Phillips -- Problem of induction / Bertrand Russell -- Will the future be like the past? / Frederick L. Will -- Free will or determinism? / Steven M. Cahn -- Free will and determinism / W.T. Stace -- Mind and body / Richard Taylor -- Death / Thomas Nagel -- Meno / Plato -- Meditations on First Philosophy / René Descartes -- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / David Hume -- Does God exist? / Ernest Nagel -- Why God allows evil / Richard Swinburne -- Theology and falsification / Anthony Flew and Basil Mitchell -- Do miracles occur? / Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley -- Faith / Richard Taylor -- Faith and reason / Michael Scriven -- Euthyphro / Plato -- Summa Theologiae / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Meditations on First Philosophy / René Descartes -- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / David Hume -- Challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels -- How not to answer moral questions / Tom Regan -- Nature of ethical disagreement / Charles L. Stevenson Supreme moral principle? / Steven M. Cahn -- Abortion / Joel Feinberg -- Giving birth / Virginia Held -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Active and passive euthanasia : a reply / Thomas D. Sullivan -- Choosing death / Sidney Hook -- Nocomachean Ethics / Aristotle -- Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals / Immanuel Kant -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- Democracy / John Dewey -- Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer -- Privacy / Charles Fried -- Death penalty / Burton Leiser -- Capital punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Two concepts of affirmative action / Steven M. Cahn -- Are quotas sometimes justified? / James Rachels -- What is a liberal education? / Sidney Hook -- Crito / Plato -- On Liberty / John Stuart Mill -- Meaning of life / Richard Taylor -- Value of philosophy / Bertrand Russell -- Phaedo / Plato