Human Nature

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Readings and Resources

• World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
• Excerpt from Socratic Humanism, by Lazlo Versenyi, Eros
• "Pope Benedict attacks government over Equality Bill," BBC, Feb 2, 2010
• "Pope criticised for attack on UK Equality Bill" BBC Feb 2, 2010
• "Bristol Priest Defends Pope's stance on religious freedom," BBC Feb 2, 2010
• The Economist, Socrates in America: Arguing to Death, Dec. 17th, 2009
• Nicholas Wade, "The Evolution of the God Gene," Nov. 14, 2009, NYT
• Hellenism Dates and Map
• Wiki Article on the Noble Eightfold Path
• Justin Barrett, "Out of the mouths of babes: Do children believe because they're told to by adults? The evidence suggests otherwise"
• Garrett Lisi, A Beautiful New Theory of Everything
• Link to Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The Sophia Project at Molloy College
• Livius article on Greek Homosexuality
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Plato's view of Friendship and Eros Highly recommended!
• Paul Bloom, "First Person Plural," Atlantic, Nov. 2008.*
• William James, Lecture Six from Pragmatism, "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth"
• Meditation Exercises
• Philosophical Movie Lists

Old Links

• Spring 2008 Philosophy 201 Mid-term
• Fall 2009 Lecture Notes
• Fall 2009 Study Questions