Reality
brings together philosophical and literary works representing the many
ways--metaphysical, scientific, analytic, phenomenological,
literary--in which philosophers and others have reflected on questions
about reality.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Excerpts from Upanishads
Fragments from the Pre-Socratics
Plato, from Phaedo and Republic, with �A Reading of Plato�s Cave,� by C. Levenson
Aristotle, from Categories and Metaphysics
Augustine, from Enarrationes in Psalmos
Aquinas, from Summa Theologica
Descartes, from Principles of Philosophy and Discourse on Method
Spinoza, from Short Treatise on God, Man and Nature
Leibniz, from Monadology
Locke, from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Berkeley, from Principles of Human Knowledge
Hume, from Treatise of Human Nature
Kant, from Critique of Pure Reason
Hegel, from The Phenomenology of Spirit
Mach, from The Analysis of Sensations
Bergson, from An Introduction to Metaphysics
Husserl, from Ideas
Russell, from The Problems of Philosophy
Eddington, from The Nature of the Physical World
Wittgenstein, from Philosophical Investigations
Quine, from The Ways of Paradox
Austin, from Sense and Sensibilia
Proust, from Remembrance of Things Past
Weil, from Gravity and Grace
