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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi

The Search for Knowledge

Primary Sources

Gettier's "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"
(http://www.ditext.com/gettier/gettier.html)

Seminal article that raises doubts about the traditional view of knowledge; edited in hypertext by Andrew Chrucky
Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
(http://philos.wright.edu/Descartes/Meditations.html)

Trilingual edition in English, French and Latin; John Veitch English translation; edited by David B. Manley & Charles S. Taylor
Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
(http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/h92e/)

Text from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection; based on the Harvard Classics edition
Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature
(http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/hume/treat.html)

Text from McMaster University
Plato's Phaedo
(http://plato.evansville.edu/texts/jowett/phaedo.htm)

Benjamin Jowett translation; Exploring Plato's Dialogues edition with explanatory hyperlinks by Anthony F. Beavers and Christopher Planeaux (University of Evansville)
Locke's An Essay Concernng Human Understanding
(http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/locke_understanding.html)

Text from Institute for Learning Technologies Digital Classics
Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
(http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/b51tr/)

Text from the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
(http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Philosophy/Kant/cpr/)

Norman Kemp Smith translation; prepared by Steve Palmquist; has very helpful search engine
Kant's Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics
(http://www.msu.org/e%26r/content_e%26r/texts/kant/prolegomena_preamble.html)

Paul Carus translation, revised by James Fieser
Quine's
(http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html)

Text originally published in The Philosophical Review 60 (1951): 20-43. Reprinted in W.V.O. Quine, From a Logical Point of View (Harvard University Press, 1953; second, revised, edition 1961), with slight alterations
Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil
(http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/bge.htm)

Compiled from translations by Helen Zimmern and Walter Kaufmann; text amended in part by The Nietzsche Channel