Includes bibliographical references and index.

Philosophy of language -- Metaphysics -- Epistemology -- Philosophy of mind -- Freedom and personal identity -- Ethics -- Methodology.

On sense and reference / Gottlob Frege -- Thought / Gottlob Frege -- On denoting / Bertrand Russell -- On referring / P.F. Strawson -- Meaning / H.P. Grice -- Truth and meaning / Donald Davidson -- Identity and necessity / Saul Kripke -- Meaning and reference / Hilary Putnam -- On the relations of universals and particulars / Bertrand Russell -- From the Tractatus logico-philosophicus / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Particular and general / P.F. Strawson -- On what there is / W.V. Quine -- The identity of indiscernibles / Max Black -- Four forms of skepticism / G.E. Moore -- From On certainty / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description / Bertrand Russell -- The problem of the criterion / Roderick Chisholm -- Is justified true belief knowledge? / Edmund Gettier -- Laws and their role in scientific explanation / Carl G. Hempel -- The new riddle of induction / Nelson Goodman -- Epistemology naturalized / W.V. Quine -- The nature of mind / D.M. Armstrong -- The nature of mental states / Hilary Putnam -- Mental events / Donald Davidson -- What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel -- Mad pain and Martian pain / David Lewis -- Can computers think? / John Searle -- The conceivability of mechanism / Norman Malcolm -- Freedom and resentment / P.F. Strawson -- Human freedom and the self / Roderick Chisholm -- The self and the future / Bernard Williams -- Actions, reasons, and causes / Donald Davidson -- The subject-matter of ethics / G.E. Moore -- The emotive meaning of ethical terms / C.L. Stevenson -- Justice as fairness / John Rawls -- Modern moral philosophy / G.E.M. Anscombe -- Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives / Philippa Foot -- The notion of analysis in Moore's philosophy / C.H. Langford -- Reply to Langford / G.E. Moore -- The elimination of metaphysics / A.J. Ayer -- Empiricism, semantics, and ontology / Rudolf Carnap -- A plea for excuses / J.L. Austin -- Two dogmas of empiricism / W.V. Quine -- In defense of a dogma / H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson -- Philosophy and the scientific image of man / Wilfrid Sellars -- From The blue and brown books / Ludwig Wittgenstein.