Philosophy Proseminar
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Main Links
- Philosophy Proseminar Basic Course Information
- Class Notes A.
- Student Research Pages
- Student Work. Samples of student work.
- Collaborative Research Exercise
- End of Semester Student Statements and Work
- Professor's Weekly Blog for the course
- Study Guide for Philosophical Methods Test - We'll develop this one further this semester.
Documents, Readings, and Miscellaneous things
Resources on Method
Resources for Quick (or In-depth) Understanding of terms and ideas
Of course, Wikipedia!
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [1]
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [2]
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosopy, on Foley site [3]
Other Docs/Links
Books to consider: Logicomix, All things Shining, The Really Hard Problem.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a must use resource the name says it all.[4]
Fora TV, a great resource for debates and scientific talks, similar to Ted talks.[5]
Relativism, ethnocentric issues highlighted in bizarre African documentary on Austrian customs. [6]
- Video for the Trolley Problem [7]
- First episode of Michael Sandel's video series "Justice." Reminds me of an Ethics class with a political and real world emphasis. [8]
- Randy Mayes has collected some ehhhokay short philosophy video to go along with his intro class. I recommend sampling some of these for topics and position papers. [9]
- Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [10] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.
- 3 minute philosophy!!! [11]
- Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [12]
- Squashed Philosophy [13] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.
- Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [15]
- Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [16] (Ethan)
- Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [17]
- TED Philosophy Videos [18]
Book Group
A Modest Proposal (text) [19]
