Philosophy Proseminar

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

• Philosophy Proseminar Instructional Notes on Method

• General List of Philosophical Methods

• Philosophical Methods for Philosophy Majors

• Wikipedia Article on Philosophical Method (Dempsey)

Resources for Quick Understanding of terms and ideas

Of course, Wikipedia!

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [1]

Other Docs/Links

• Video for the Trolley Problem [2]

• 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. [3]

• 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. [4]

• Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [5] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.

• 3 minute philosophy!!! [6]

• Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [7]

• Squashed Philosophy [8] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.

• Interactive Greek Philosophy Timeline [9] Creeder 02:46, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

• Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [10]

• Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [11] (Ethan)

• Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [12]

• TED Philosophy Videos [13]

Book Group

A Modest Proposal (text) [14]

Old Links

Fall 2010 Proseminar Links