Philosophy Proseminar

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Main Links

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

  • Economist Article on Supreme Court case [10]
  • French Farmer Protests [11]
  • "The Controversial Felony Murder Case of The Elkhart 4: Should Teens Be Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison?" [12] Advocacy site: Free the Elkhart 4 [13]
  • "'Hiccup Girl' convicted in felony murder case, gets life term" [14]
  • Moral Psych piece.[15]
  • Pope John Paul II, "Fides et Ratio" [16]
  • Nick Bostrom's TED Talk: [[17]]
  • False Belief Test [18]
  • 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. [19]
  • Alain Badiou. The Desire for Philosophy and the Contemporary World [20]
  • For your reconstructions, choose either of the following two articles: [21] or Jeff Mdrick's Harper's editorial, "The Future Progressive" .
  • Philosophy News on job placements for new Ph.D.s [22]. Data from GU's MA program: [23]
  • As a follow up to our science class, you might find this essay by Steven Weinberg relevant. [24]
  • Philosophers Rock [25]
  • Timeline Examples:
  • 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.[33]
  • Relativism, ethnocentric issues highlighted in bizarre African documentary on Austrian customs. [34]
  • Video for the Trolley Problem [35]
  • First episode of Michael Sandel's video series "Justice." Reminds me of an Ethics class with a political and real world emphasis. [36]
  • 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. [37]
  • Anyone interested in classical philosophers and want their original texts would be interested in this site [38] I've used it to look up The Meno, but I'm assuming more stuff is on here.
  • 3 minute philosophy!!! [39]
  • Free Yale Philosophy class called "Death" [40]
  • Squashed Philosophy [41] -- a summary of many different works. Great if you need to get an idea of what's what.
  • Interactive Greek Philosophy Timeline [42] Creeder 02:46, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Monty Python's World Philosophy Cup [43]
  • Now this is a satire, but relevant to our readings by Singer. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal [44] (Ethan)
  • Teaching ethics to inmates, you may be surprised what you read. [45]
  • TED Philosophy Videos [46]
  • Colin McGinn explains atheism - The Atheism Tapes [47]
  • [48] 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)
  • [49] just another thing to consider, string theory (EL)
  • [50] 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)
  • [51] 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)
  • [52] Book Review of Colin Mcginn's book on disgust.
  • Philosophy of Food Project [53]
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