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*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. [http://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_Speculative_Turn_9780980668346.pdf] | *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. [http://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_Speculative_Turn_9780980668346.pdf] | ||
Revision as of 16:38, 20 November 2013
Main Links
- Philosophy Proseminar Basic Course Information
- Instructions for Registering your Clicker in the Proseminar
- Course Readings
- Class Notes A.
- Student Research Pages
- Professor's Weekly Blog for the course
- Student practice page
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]
- Atheneum Library of Philosophy [8]
- Perseus Collections Text [9]
Other Docs/Links
- False Belief Test [10]
- 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. [11]
- Alain Badiou. The Desire for Philosophy and the Contemporary World [12]
- For your reconstructions, choose either of the following two articles: [13] or Jeff Mdrick's Harper's editorial, "The Future Progressive" .
- As a follow up to our science class, you might find this essay by Steven Weinberg relevant. [16]
- Philosophers Rock [17]
- Timeline Examples:
- Anarchism [18]
- Existentialism [19]
- 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
- Philosophy Now [20]
- Philosopher's Magazine [21]
- 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 [22] 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 [23] 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.
- 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]
- 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.
- 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]
- Colin McGinn explains atheism - The Atheism Tapes [39]
- [40] this is a fun way of looking at life. It is Joe Rogan (Fear Factor/ MMA announcer) and his philosophy, derived from taking dmt. despite the questionable technique, the philosophy is pretty good. (EL)
- [41] just another thing to consider, string theory (EL)
- [42] this is Waking Life, one of the movies that inspired my in philosophy, if you have spare time on a lazy Saturday, enjoy. i particularly like the scene with Ethan Hawke. (EL)
- [43] so this is less philosophical but it drives me to question: are we living the best way possible, or do we, as Rage Against the Machine says, "Wake up!" to the injustice? Holla back. (EL)
- [44] Book Review of Colin Mcginn's book on disgust.