Philosophy Proseminar
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Main Links
- Philosophy Proseminar Basic Course Information
- Instructions for Registering your Clicker in the Proseminar
- Course Readings
- Class Notes A.
- Student Research Pages
- Professor's Weekly Blog for the course
- Student practice page
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]
- Google Scholar [6]
- Research Tools [7]
- Atheneum Library of Philosophy [8]
- Perseus Collections Text [9]
Other Docs/Links
- As a follow up to our science class, you might find this essay by Steven Weinberg relevant. [10]
- Philosophers Rock [11]
- Timeline Examples:
- Anarchism [12]
- Existentialism [13]
- 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
- Philosophy Now [14]
- Philosopher's Magazine [15]
- 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 [16] or go through Foley, periodicals link, "philosophy" then click link to full text holding.
- The New York Times has a regular column, "The Stone," on philosophical topics [17] We'll follow the exchange on naturalism, which begins with this article [18].
- 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.
- Fora TV, a great resource for debates and scientific talks, similar to Ted talks.[19]
- Relativism, ethnocentric issues highlighted in bizarre African documentary on Austrian customs. [20]
- Video for the Trolley Problem [21]
- First episode of Michael Sandel's video series "Justice." Reminds me of an Ethics class with a political and real world emphasis. [22]
- 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. [23]
- Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [24] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.
- 3 minute philosophy!!! [25]
- Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [26]
- Squashed Philosophy [27] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.
- Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [29]
- Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [30] (Ethan)
- Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [31]
- TED Philosophy Videos [32]
- Colin McGinn explains atheism - The Atheism Tapes [33]
- [34] this is a fun way of looking at life. It is Joe Rogan (Fear Factor/ MMA announcer) and his philosophy, derived from taking dmt. despite the questionable technique, the philosophy is pretty good. (EL)
- [35] just another thing to consider, string theory (EL)
- [36] this is Waking Life, one of the movies that inspired my in philosophy, if you have spare time on a lazy Saturday, enjoy. i particularly like the scene with Ethan Hawke. (EL)
- [37] so this is less philosophical but it drives me to question: are we living the best way possible, or do we, as Rage Against the Machine says, "Wake up!" to the injustice? Holla back. (EL)
- [38] Book Review of Colin Mcginn's book on disgust.
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