Philosophy Proseminar

Main Links

• Philosophy Proseminar Basic Course Information
• Class Notes B.
• 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 Methods Test (unedited version)
• Fall 2010 Study Guide, with notes, for Philosophical Methods Test

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 (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

• • David Papineau on Physicalism, Philosophy Bytes

  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]

• 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. [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]

• Colin McGinn explains atheism - The Atheism Tapes [32]

Book Group

A Modest Proposal (text) [33]

Old Links

Fall 2010 Proseminar Links