Grad Seminar: Philosophical Method, Writing, and Style
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Main Links
- The Short Short Guide to Wiki Edits (anonymous login: student / bulldog)
- Assignment Rubric
- Google Forms:
Documents, Readings, and Miscellaneous things
Research Pages
Research Resources
Other Docs/Links
- This from the Daily Nous, thanks to Dr. Lassiter. [8]
Some things on method
Philosophy mags, blogs, and other browsing
- False Belief Test [16]
- 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. [17]
Philosophy Profession
- Against Professional Philosophy: http://againstprofphil.org/
- Philosophy News on job placements for new Ph.D.s [18]. Data from GU's MA program: [19]
- PhilEvents is a website that lists conferences and calls for papers: http://philevents.org/
Topics
- Edward Casey. American Phenomenologist [20]
- Bow hunter mauled by bear. [21]
- Article by Matthew Crawford on Limits of Neuroscience in philosophy. [22]
- Round up of books on digital self: <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/23/depths-of-the-digital-age/>
Fall 2016
- Steven Weinberg. Designer Universe. [23]
- 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 [24] 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 [25].
- 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.[26]
- Relativism, ethnocentric issues highlighted in bizarre African documentary on Austrian customs. [27]
- Video for the Trolley Problem [28]
- 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. [29]
- 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. [30]
- Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [31] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.
- 3 minute philosophy!!! [32]
- Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [33]
- Squashed Philosophy [34] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.
- Interactive Greek Philosophy Timeline [35] Creeder 02:46, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [36]
- Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [37] (Ethan)
- Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [38]
- TED Philosophy Videos [39]
- Philosophy of Food Project [40]
- This issue of the AAUP's journal on academic freedom focuses on the Steven Salaida case.[41]
- Link to an article about the background and significance of Gilles Deleuze in preparation for the readings for September 9 [42]
- Example of an extended philosophy bibliography. Kaplan's Food Bibliography
- Soylent [43]
- French Farmer Protests [44]
- Moral Psych piece.[45]
