Philosophy Proseminar

Main Links

• Class Notes2. Starting with Oct 12 - Existentialism
• Class Notes1. Covering up to Oct 5.
• Student Research Pages
• Student Work. Samples of student work.
• Collaborative Research Exercise
• End of Semester Student Statements and Work
• Professor's Weekly Blog for the course
• Study Guide for Philosophical Methods Test
• Rukavina Lecture Fall 2010

Documents, Readings, and Miscellaneous things

Anthropology and Cognitive Science of Religion

• Justin Barrett, What is Cognitive Science of Religion and Why is it?

[1] (please print)

• Pascal Boyer, Chapter 1, "What is the Origin?" Religion Explained (handed out in class)
• Scott Atran, Chapter 2, "Mindless Agents" In Gods We Trust (handed out in class)

Physicalism & Transhumanism

• David Papineau [2]
• Transhumanism video.[3]
• Check out Nick Bostrom's site and the Transhumanism FAQ

Here is another video that I found helpful and interesting. [4] --Jjohnson9 17:50, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Environmental Philosophy Readings

• Light and Katz, "Environmental Pragmatism"
• Leopold, Sand County Almanac (excerpt)
• Henning, "Trusting in the Efficacy of Beauty
• Norton, "Environmental Pragmatism"

• Richard Rorty, "The Contingency of Self"
• Jonathan Culler, "Writing and Logocentrism"

Resources for Naturalism / Phenomenology Seminar

Naturalism

• Quine, Epistemology Naturalized
• Jagwon Kim, What is "Epistemology Naturalized"?
• Rebecca Saxe, "How we Read Each Other's Minds" [5]
• Daniel Dennett, Chapter 17 of Darwin's Dangerous Idea, " Redesigning Morality"

Phenomenology

• W. T. Jones, " Phenomenology" from a History of Philosophy

Resources for Existentialism Seminar

• Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions (Let's make this a baseline text for everyone.)
• Nietzsche, especially Thus Spake Zarathustra. Scan of chapter on Nietzsche from Kaufman, "Nietzsche"
• Camus, stories.
• Usually reference and secondary sources. Good oppotunity to "shelf browse" existentialism: B819 in Foley, but then figures may be in other places.

Resources on Method

• Philosophy Proseminar Instructional Notes on Method

• General List of Philosophical Methods

• Philosophical Methods for Philosophy Majors

• Wikipedia Article on Philosophical Method (Dempsey)

Other Docs/Links

• Randy Mayes has collected some great short philosophy video to go along with his intro class. I recommend sampling some of these for topics and position papers. [6]
• Draft of paper with some research from Fall 2009 class Philosophies of Intellectual Freedom
• Dennett, " 2. What is it Like to Be a Bat?"
• Crawford, "The Case for Working with your Hands" [7]
• Philosophy Proseminar Basic Course Information -- 2 min video on Course Website and Course Wiki
• Professor's Weekly Blog for the course.
• General Philosophy Paper Rubric
• Philosophical Methods
• Philosophical Methods for Philosophy Majors
• Some Course Outlining
• 2009 Fall Proseminar Wiki Root Page

Book Group

• Discussion