Human Nature

Spring 2009 Course Texts

Plato. Symposium. Edited and translated by Alexander Nehemas & Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, 1989.

Rauhut, Nils Ch. Readings on the Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy. editor Nils Ch. Rauhut. 2 ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.

Rauhut, Nils Ch. Ultimate Questions: Thinking About Philosophy. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.

Main Course Links

• Lecture Notes from the first half of the semester.
• Lecture Notes from the second half of the semester.
• Philosophical Methods
• Paper Topics

Student Work, Exams, Paper Topics

• Student Practice Page
• Study Questions up to Mid-term
• Study Questions from Mid-term to final
• Sample Student Work

Readings and Resources

• 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

Old Links

• Spring 2008 Sample Student Work
• Fall 2008 Philosophy 201 Sample Student Work
• Fall 2008 Philosophy 201 Study Question Collaboration
• Fall 2008 Philosophy 201 Paper Topics Spring 2008 201 Paper Topics
• Fall 2008 Midterm Exam
• Spring 2008 Philosophy 201 Mid-term