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* Google Scholar [http://scholar.google.com/]
 
* Google Scholar [http://scholar.google.com/]
 
* Research Tools [http://www.mindmeister.com/39583892?title=research-tools-by-nader-ale-ebrahim]
 
* Research Tools [http://www.mindmeister.com/39583892?title=research-tools-by-nader-ale-ebrahim]
* Colin McGinn explains atheism - The Atheism Tapes [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7853929164413117774&hl=en]
 
  
 
===Other Docs/Links===
 
===Other Docs/Links===

Revision as of 23:45, 18 October 2011

Main Links

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]
  • Episteme Links [4]
  • Philosopher's Index, on Foley site [5]
  • Google Scholar [6]
  • Research Tools [7]

Other Docs/Links

Summary of William James' approach to religious belief
  • Here is an interesting section in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy comparing Hume and Kant [8]
  • This is a cool new short video from the Sagan Series. It quickly presents some interesting ideas (to the soundtrack of the fountain so it's a winner just for that!) [9]
    --Just check out The Sagan Series in general (on facebook or youtube)... it's super cool. [10]
  • Philosophy Now [11]
  • Philosopher's Magazine [12]
  • 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 [13] or go through Foley, periodicals link, "philosophy" then click link to full text holding.


The New York Times has a regular column, "The Stone," on philosophical topics [14] We'll follow the exchange on naturalism, which begins with this article [15].


Check out "Philosophy Talk" a long running podcast on different topics in philosophy today.


Order "Origin of Geometry" Husserl. [16]

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.[17]

Fora TV, a great resource for debates and scientific talks, similar to Ted talks.[18]

Relativism, ethnocentric issues highlighted in bizarre African documentary on Austrian customs. [19]

  • Video for the Trolley Problem [20]
  • First episode of Michael Sandel's video series "Justice." Reminds me of an Ethics class with a political and real world emphasis. [21]
  • 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. [22]
  • Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [23] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.
  • 3 minute philosophy!!! [24]
  • Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [25]
  • Squashed Philosophy [26] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.
  • Interactive Greek Philosophy Timeline [27] Creeder 02:46, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [28]
  • Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [29] (Ethan)
  • Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [30]
  • TED Philosophy Videos [31]

Book Group

A Modest Proposal (text) [32]

Old Links

Fall 2010 Proseminar Links