Human Nature

Main Course Links

• Philosophy of Human Nature Basic Course Information
• Lecture Notes
• Study Questions
• Philosophical Methods
• Philosophical Movie Lists

Student Work, Exams, Paper Topics

• Paper Topics
• Student Work
• Student Practice Page
• Student Wiki Posts
• Midterm Exam

Readings and Resources

• 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

Old Links

• Spring 2008 Philosophy 201 Mid-term
• Lecture Notes from the first half of the Spring 2009 semester.
• Lecture Notes from the second half of the Spring 2009 semester.