Majors' Seminar: Philosophical Method, Writing, and Style

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Documents, Readings, and Miscellaneous things

Resources on Method

• Philosophy Proseminar Instructional Notes on Method
• General List of Philosophical Methods
• Philosophical Methods for Philosophy Majors
• Philosophy Proseminar Methods Test Study Guide
• Text for Methods Text Reconstruction: Bring a 1-1 1/2 page typed reconstruction of Singer, Chapter 9 "Altruism and Happiness" Media:Singer_The_Most_Good_Ch._9_Altruism_and_Happiness.pdf
• Wikipedia Article on Philosophical Method (Dempsey)

Research Resources

• Of course, Wikipedia!
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [1]
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [2]
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosopy, on Foley site [3]
• Philosopher's Index, on Foley site [4]
• Google Scholar [5]
• Perseus Collections Text [6]

Other Docs/Links

• [Powerpoint] and [Audio] for "What Can We Learn from Postmodern Theories of Meaning and Truth?," talk, Gonzaga University, March 27, 2012.

Philosophy mags, blogs, and other browsing

• Philosophy Stack Exchange: [7]
• Cafe Philosophy: [8]
• Philosophy Now [9]
• Philosopher's Magazine [10]
• The Stone. The New York Times has a regular column, "The Stone," on philosophical topics [11]
• Two favorite browsing sites, though not exclusively philosophical: Arts and Letters Daily [12] and Three Quarks [13]

• False Belief Test [14]

• Here is the publication The Speculative Turn, for more reading on Speculative Philosophy. The editor's introduction gives a concise introduction to speculative thinking thus far. [15]

Philosophy Profession

• Philosophy News on job placements for new Ph.D.s [16]. Data from GU's MA program: [17]
• PhilEvents is a website that lists conferences and calls for papers: http://philevents.org/

Topics

• Northwest Philosophy Conference [18]
• Cass Sunstein's new book, The Ethics of Influence. [19]
• Philosophy of Food site: [20]
• NYT, Overbye, "Don't Let Them Tell you You're not at the Center of the Universe" [21]
• Round up of books on digital self: <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/23/depths-of-the-digital-age/>

Fall 2016

• As a follow up to our science class, you might find this essay by Steven Weinberg relevant. [22]

• Philo of Alexandria
• We can't send a search and rescue team into Plato's cave.
• David Papineau on Physicalism, Philosophy Bytes
• Summary of William James' approach to religious belief
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy comparing Hume and Kant
• Check out Philosophy magazine, full text through Foley. You can have them send you an email when a new issue comes out. This link might work [23] or go through Foley, periodicals link, "philosophy" then click link to full text holding.

We'll follow the exchange on naturalism, which begins with this article [24].

• Check out "Philosophy Talk" a long running podcast on different topics in philosophy today.
• Books to consider for book groups: Logicomix, All things Shining, The Really Hard Problem, NEW: The World Outside Your Head.
• Fora TV, a great resource for debates and scientific talks, similar to Ted talks.[25]
• Relativism, ethnocentric issues highlighted in bizarre African documentary on Austrian customs. [26]
• Video for the Trolley Problem [27]
• Info about the Film and Philosophy conference
• First episode of Michael Sandel's video series "Justice." Reminds me of an Ethics class with a political and real world emphasis. [28]
• Randy Mayes has collected some short philosophy video to go along with his intro class. I recommend sampling some of these for topics and position papers. [29]
• Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [30] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.
• 3 minute philosophy!!! [31]
• Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [32]
• Squashed Philosophy [33] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.
• Interactive Greek Philosophy Timeline [34] Creeder 02:46, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
• Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [35]
• Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [36] (Ethan)
• Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [37]
• TED Philosophy Videos [38]
• Philosophy of Food Project [39]
• This issue of the AAUP's journal on academic freedom focuses on the Steven Salaida case.[40]
• Link to an article about the background and significance of Gilles Deleuze in preparation for the readings for September 9 [41]
• Example of an extended philosophy bibliography. Kaplan's Food Bibliography
• Soylent [42]
• French Farmer Protests [43]
• Moral Psych piece.[44]

Timelines

• Timeline Examples:

• Anarchism [45]
• Existentialism [46]