Grad Seminar: Philosophical Writing and Style
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Main Links
- Gradseminar Reading Schedule
- Gradseminar Basic Course Information
- The Short Short Guide to Wiki Edits (anonymous login: student / bulldog)
- Assignment Rubric
- Google Forms:
Documents, Readings, and Miscellaneous things
Resources on Method
- Philosophy Proseminar Instructional Notes on Method
- General List of Philosophical Methods
- Philosophical Methods for Philosophy Majors
- Philosophy Proseminar Methods Test Study Guide
- Text for Methods Text Reconstruction: Bring a 1-1 1/2 page typed reconstruction of Singer, Chapter 9 "Altruism and Happiness" Media:Singer_The_Most_Good_Ch._9_Altruism_and_Happiness.pdf
- Wikipedia Article on Philosophical Method (Dempsey)
Research Resources
Other Docs/Links
- [Powerpoint] and [Audio] for "What Can We Learn from Postmodern Theories of Meaning and Truth?," talk, Gonzaga University, March 27, 2012.
Philosophy mags, blogs, and other browsing
- False Belief Test [13]
- 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. [14]
Philosophy Profession
- Philosophy News on job placements for new Ph.D.s [15]. Data from GU's MA program: [16]
- PhilEvents is a website that lists conferences and calls for papers: http://philevents.org/
Topics
- As a follow up to our science class, you might find this essay by Steven Weinberg relevant. [17]
- 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
- 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 [18] or go through Foley, periodicals link, "philosophy" then click link to full text holding.
We'll follow the exchange on naturalism, which begins with this article [19].
- 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, NEW: The World Outside Your Head.
- Fora TV, a great resource for debates and scientific talks, similar to Ted talks.[20]
- Relativism, ethnocentric issues highlighted in bizarre African documentary on Austrian customs. [21]
- Video for the Trolley Problem [22]
- 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. [23]
- 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. [24]
- Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [25] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.
- 3 minute philosophy!!! [26]
- Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [27]
- Squashed Philosophy [28] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.
- Interactive Greek Philosophy Timeline [29] Creeder 02:46, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [30]
- Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [31] (Ethan)
- Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [32]
- TED Philosophy Videos [33]
- Philosophy of Food Project [34]
- This issue of the AAUP's journal on academic freedom focuses on the Steven Salaida case.[35]
- Link to an article about the background and significance of Gilles Deleuze in preparation for the readings for September 9 [36]
- Example of an extended philosophy bibliography. Kaplan's Food Bibliography
- Soylent [37]
- French Farmer Protests [38]
- Moral Psych piece.[39]
