Human Nature
From Alfino
Spring 2009 Course Texts
Plato. Symposium. Edited and translated by Alexander Nehemas & Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, 1989.
Rauhut, Nils Ch. Readings on the Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy. editor Nils Ch. Rauhut. 2 ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.
Rauhut, Nils Ch. Ultimate Questions: Thinking About Philosophy. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.
Main Course Links
- Lecture Notes from the first half of the semester.
- Lecture Notes from the second half of the semester.
- Philosophical Methods
- Paper Topics
Student Work, Exams, Paper Topics
- Student Practice Page
- Study Questions up to Mid-term
- Study Questions from Mid-term to final
- Sample Student Work
Readings and Resources
- 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
