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Main Wiki Pages for Dr. Mark Alfino
- Critical Thinking
- Human Nature
- Philosophy Proseminar
- Roll Call Questions
- Selected Short Video
- Some Really Important Dates
Favorite Links
- The Black Hole [1]
- Don Cupitt, theologian, on God [2]
- Caparezza, "Io vengo dalla luna," [3]
- People in Order 1 to 100 [4]
- "Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book," The Onion, [5]
Notable Media from 2009
Fora TV [6]
Garrett Lisi, A Beautiful New Theory of Everything
Wegner, David, The Illusion of Conscious Will, MIT Press, 2004.
Wilson, Timothy D. Strangers to Ourselves. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap/Harvard UP, 2002.
Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion. Editor Patrick McNamara. Vol. Vols. 1-3. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2006.
Notable Media from 2008
Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money
Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational
Scot Atran, In Gods we Trust
Daniel Simmons, Visual Cognition Lab, University of Illinois
Paul Bloom, "First Person Plural," Atlantic, Nov. 2008.
David Sloan Wilson, Evolution for Everyone
Miller, Peter. "Swarm Theory." The National Geographic (2007).
Siderits, Mark. Buddhism As Philosophy. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing, 2007.
Jess Walters, The Zero
Pierre Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy?
The Dodos, "God?"
Dowman, Mike Kriby Simon Griffiths Thomas L. "Innateness and Culture in the Evolution of Language." The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. editors A. Smith A. and Smith K Cangelosi. World Scientific, 2006.
Noteable Reading from 2007
The Economist, "In God's Name: A special report on religion and public life" Nov 3rd, 2007.
Lawrence Sutin, All is Change: the 2000 year journey of Buddhism to the West, 2006
Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life, Blackwell, 1995.
Bernard Lewis, The Muslim Discovery of Europe.
Jane Kramer’s, “The Pope and Islam”. The New Yorker, April 2, 2007.
Emmons & McCullough, The Psychology of Gratitude
Fred Bryant, Savoring
Older Root Pages
- Happiness
- Wisdom
- Housing tips
- Grad Seminar in Philosophy - Fall 2007
- Ethics wiki resources for my Ethics Class.
- International Development Study Group wiki pages.
- Notable Reading 2006
- Erasmus
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