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]

• "'Hiccup Girl' convicted in felony murder case, gets life term" [11]

• Moral Psych piece.[12]

• Pope John Paul II, "Fides et Ratio" [13]

• Nick Bostrom's TED Talk: [[14]]

• False Belief Test [15]
• 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. [16]

• Alain Badiou. The Desire for Philosophy and the Contemporary World [17]

• For your reconstructions, choose either of the following two articles: [18] or Jeff Mdrick's Harper's editorial, "The Future Progressive" .

• Philosophy News on job placements for new Ph.D.s [19]. Data from GU's MA program: [20]

• As a follow up to our science class, you might find this essay by Steven Weinberg relevant. [21]

• Philosophers Rock [22]

• David Papineau on Physicalism, Philosophy Bytes

• Timeline Examples:

• Anarchism [23]
• Existentialism [24]
• 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 [25]
• Philosopher's Magazine [26]
• 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 [27] 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 [28] We'll follow the exchange on naturalism, which begins with this article [29].
• 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.[30]

• Relativism, ethnocentric issues highlighted in bizarre African documentary on Austrian customs. [31]

• Video for the Trolley Problem [32]

• 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. [33]

• 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. [34]

• Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [35] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.

• 3 minute philosophy!!! [36]

• Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [37]

• Squashed Philosophy [38] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.

• Interactive Greek Philosophy Timeline [39] Creeder 02:46, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

• Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [40]

• Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [41] (Ethan)

• Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [42]

• TED Philosophy Videos [43]

• Colin McGinn explains atheism - The Atheism Tapes [44]

• [45] 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)

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

• [47] 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)

• [48] 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)

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

• Philosophy of Food Project [50]