Philosophy Proseminar

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Documents, Readings, and Miscellaneous things

Resources on Method

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]

Other Docs/Links

Order "Origin of Geometry" Husserl. [6]

Books to consider: Logicomix, All things Shining, The Really Hard Problem.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a must use resource the name says it all.[7]

Fora TV, a great resource for debates and scientific talks, similar to Ted talks.[8]

Relativism, ethnocentric issues highlighted in bizarre African documentary on Austrian customs. [9]

  • Video for the Trolley Problem [10]
  • First episode of Michael Sandel's video series "Justice." Reminds me of an Ethics class with a political and real world emphasis. [11]
  • Randy Mayes has collected some ehhhokay short philosophy video to go along with his intro class. I recommend sampling some of these for topics and position papers. [12]
  • Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [13] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.
  • 3 minute philosophy!!! [14]
  • Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [15]
  • Squashed Philosophy [16] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.
  • Interactive Greek Philosophy Timeline [17] Creeder 02:46, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [18]
  • Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [19] (Ethan)
  • Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [20]
  • TED Philosophy Videos [21]

Book Group

A Modest Proposal (text) [22]

Old Links

Fall 2010 Proseminar Links