Philosophy Proseminar

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Main Links

• Philosophy Proseminar Basic Course Information
• Course Readings
• Class Notes A.
• Sample Proseminar Logs
• SWoRD Peer Assessment Site
• Professor's Weekly Blog for the course
• The Short Short Guide to Wiki Edits
• Student practice page
• Optional 2nd Reconstruction
• First Batch of Reconstructions

Documents, Readings, and Miscellaneous things

Resources on Method

• Philosophy Proseminar Instructional Notes on Method

• General List of Philosophical Methods

• Philosophical Methods for Philosophy Majors

• Study Guide for Philosophy Proseminar Methods Test

• 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]
• Atheneum Library of Philosophy [8]
• Perseus Collections Text [9]

Other Docs/Links

• "The Controversial Felony Murder Case of The Elkhart 4: Should Teens Be Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison?" [10] Advocacy site: Free the Elkhart 4 [11]

• "'Hiccup Girl' convicted in felony murder case, gets life term" [12]

• Moral Psych piece.[13]

• Pope John Paul II, "Fides et Ratio" [14]

• Nick Bostrom's TED Talk: [[15]]

• 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]

• Alain Badiou. The Desire for Philosophy and the Contemporary World [18]

• For your reconstructions, choose either of the following two articles: [19] or Jeff Mdrick's Harper's editorial, "The Future Progressive" .

• Philosophy News on job placements for new Ph.D.s [20]. Data from GU's MA program: [21]

• As a follow up to our science class, you might find this essay by Steven Weinberg relevant. [22]

• Philosophers Rock [23]

• David Papineau on Physicalism, Philosophy Bytes

• Timeline Examples:

• Anarchism [24]
• Existentialism [25]
• 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 [26]
• Philosopher's Magazine [27]
• 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 [28] 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 [29] We'll follow the exchange on naturalism, which begins with this article [30].
• 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.[31]

• Relativism, ethnocentric issues highlighted in bizarre African documentary on Austrian customs. [32]

• Video for the Trolley Problem [33]

• 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. [34]

• 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. [35]

• Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [36] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.

• 3 minute philosophy!!! [37]

• Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [38]

• Squashed Philosophy [39] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.

• Interactive Greek Philosophy Timeline [40] Creeder 02:46, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

• Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [41]

• Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [42] (Ethan)

• Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [43]

• TED Philosophy Videos [44]

• Colin McGinn explains atheism - The Atheism Tapes [45]

• [46] 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)

• [47] just another thing to consider, string theory (EL)

• [48] 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)

• [49] 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)

• [50] Book Review of Colin Mcginn's book on disgust.

• Philosophy of Food Project [51]