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Readings
for Phil 1115 updated in February of 2010
Please check back for updated readings as we go along.
Feb 3 Lec 17 Moral theory from the ancient Greeks to Kant
* Lec 17 PowerPoint
Feb 10 Lec 18: Moral theory from Bentham to Sartre: What counts besides intention?
*Lec 18 PowerPoint (Don't forget the Peter Singer / Stephen Colbert bit)
Jeremy Bentham: The History Guide
J.S. Mill: Utilitarianism (SparkNotes)
TPM Philosopher of the month: Peter Singer
February 15 – 19 Study Week Hmmm...
Feb 24 Lec 19: Waking Life: What does it all mean?
Waking Life: IMDb
*Waking Life: Philosophical films
Waking Life: Wikipedia
Waking Life: Movie transcript
March 3 Lec 20: The nature of the Social contract: How did we get here?
* Lec 20 PowerPoint
TPM Philosopher of the month: Thomas Hobbes
TPM Philosopher of the month: John Locke
TPM Philosopher of the month: Rousseau
TPM Philosopher of the month: John Rawls
March 10 Lec 21: Later answers to “What is Reality?”
* Lec 21 PowerPoint
*Lec 21 notes Part 1 What is reality?
*Lec 21 notes Part 2 Later answers to 'what is reality'
March 17 Lec 22: The ‘Self’: what and where can it be?
* Lec 22 PowerPoint
* Lec 22 Readings
*Lec 22 notes The Self
March 24 Lec 23: Your decision: whatever will we do?
Gattaca
March 31 Lec 24: Transhumanism and What will the exam look like like
TPM online: Philosophical Health Check update...
Lec 24 PowerPoint (Remember to check out some of the video links)
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Everything below this line is from previous incarnations of PHIL 1115....still useful for the enthusiasts among you...
Anything marked 2k6 has been updated for this year.
- Sept
11, 12 What is (and isn’t) philosophy?
Lec 1 PowerPoint 2k6
Banned Books and Censorship: Information and Resources
Censored: Books are Dangerous...they make you think...feel...wonder
Philosophy (from Wikipedia)
- Sept
18, 19 (xiii to 41)
Joining the Great Conversation
Lec 2 PowerPoint 2k6
Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy
Finding bits
of the Great Conversation in the Library of Congress Classification
system
List of Book Lists (compiled by Robert Teeter)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (against nuclear proliferation)
Learning to Read Philosophy Brad Hadaway Georgetown University
- Sept
25, 26 A bit of history: Part 1
Lecture 3 PowerPoint 2k6
On the differences between mythopoeic and philosophical thought
Early
Greek Science ( Tufts University )
Pre-Socratic Philosophers (Overview) Philosophy Pages
Pre-Socratics with texts
Heraclitus
Fragments as interpreted by the World Pantheist Movement
Heraclitus
Discussion and Fragments
Timeline
of Western Philosophy
Everything
you need to know about the history of philosophy
Plato Philosophy Pages
Plato: Science and Human Values Rochester Institute of Technology
Greek Philosophy: Plato
Works by Plato MIT
Aristotle: The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Aristotle: The Philosophy Pages
Aristotle: Science and Human Values Rochester Institute of Technology
Works by Aristotle MIT
Aristotle: The Catholic Encyclopedia
Greek Philosophy: Hellenistic Philosophy
The Hellenistic World Philosophy Pages
Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy
Stoic Links
Neo-Platonism The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Oct
2, 3 A bit of history:
Part 2
Lec 4 PowerPoint 2k6
What is the Enlightenment?: Immanuel Kant's Answer
Rene Descartes The First Meditation
The Renaissance Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A longer, but more humourous, tour through the Renaissance
Recommended: More on Francis Bacon's Idols (of the tribe, the cave, etc.)
Rene Descartes The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Rene Descartes The Philosophy Pages
Rene Descartes The Meditations 1641
Karl Marx The History Guide
Marx and Engels The Communist Manifesto 1848
STUDY WEEK
- Oct
16, 17 (43 to 63) The Meaning of Life
Lec 5 PowerPoint 2k6
Additional Ideas about the Meaning of Life (collected from various places)
- Oct 23, 24 (65 to 87)
Whence God?
Lec 6 PowerPoint 2k6
King James Bible
The Problem of Evil Wikipedia
Ontological Arguments Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Philosophy of Religion A well-done amateur site
Søren Kierkegaard (b.1813, d. 1855)
Kierkegaard (Philosophy Pages)
- Oct 30, 31 (87 to
105) Faith or reason?
Lec
7 PowerPoint 2k6
- Nov 6, 7 Test 1 Sample Questions 2k6
- Nov
13, 14 (107 to 124) What is the nature of reality? ( Journal 1 due)
Lec 9 2k6
Required Reading: Book VII The Republic The Allegory of the Cave
The Cave
Why Call it Plato's Cave?
Plato's Cave and the Matrix
Out of Iraq and Plato's Cave (a modern dissident uses Plato's Cave to illustrate...
Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events
t
vil Demons
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Nov 20, 21 Philosophy at the Movies
Required Reading: How do I know I'm not a brain in a vat?
Brains in Vats and the Evil Demon
Rene Descartes Meditation IId
- Nov
27, 28 (124 to 143)
Later answers to "What is reality?"
Lec 11 2k6
Spinoza Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Spinoza Philosophy Pages
Leibniz Wikipedia
On the Monads of Leibniz
John Locke Philosophy Pages
John Locke Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
George Berkeley Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
David Hume Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant Wikipedia
- Dec 4, 5 Philosophy at the Movies
CHRISTMAS BREAK
- Jan
8, 9 (145 to
181) How do we know what is "true"?
Required: Reading
for Lecture 13 (to be printed for class) 2k6
Lec 13 2k6
Recommended:Plato's Metaphor of the Sun Wikipedia
Plato's Divided Line Wikipedia
Recommended:Plato's Allegory of the Cave Wikipedia
Plato's Epistemology in a Nutshell Sophia Project Resources
Tom Bridges Plato Lecture Notes
Theatatus by Plato
Theory of Knowledge: The Gettier Problem Princeton University
Edmund Gettier Paper: Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
Descartes: The Meditations John Veitch translation 1901
John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
George Berkeley: A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
David Hume Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
What is Science? Social Science Theory for Budding Theorists
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Jan 15, 16 (183 to 215) What is the 'self'?
Lecture 14 2k6
Lec 14 Self Readings for class 2k6
William James: The Stream of Consciousness (1892)
- Jan
22, 23 (217 to 227) What is freedom?
Lecture 15
- Jan
29, 30 (227 to 241)
Free Will or Determinism? (Journal 2 due)
Lecture 16 2k6
Reading for Lecture 16 (this is here from last year -- good quotations at the bottom)
Free Will and Determinism Jim Pryor's lecture (Princeton)
Determinism The Society of Natural Science
Determinism Wikipedia
Fatalism The Catholic Encyclopedia
Elbow Room Wikipedia
Aristotle's Sea Battle Philosopher's Zone
Historical introduction to Determinism and the Problem of Free Will Wikiversity
- Feb
5, 6 (Test 2)
Sample questions for test 2 2k6
- Feb
12, 13 (243 to 257) What is "the good life"?
Lecture 18 Power Point
Required Reading: Epictetus the Stoic Sections 8 to 15
STUDY WEEK
- Feb
26, 27 Philosophy at the Movies Sling Blade handout
- Mar
5, 6 (258 to 275) Theories of morality
Lecture 20 Power Point 2k6
Required: Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
Traditional Morality
Kohlberg and Gilligan
- Mar
12, 13 Philosophy at the Movies One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Mar
19, 20 (277 to 299)
What is the nature of society? (Journal 3 due)
Lec 22 Readings for class printout 2k6
Lecture 22 PowerPoint 2k6
Plato's Republic The classic Jowett translation provided by MIT
Aristotle Politics
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan
John Locke The Second Treatise of Government
Philosopher of the Month: Rousseau TPM
J. S. Mill On Liberty also here
John Rawls' theory Justice as Fairness
The Enduring Significance of John Rawls by Martha Nussbaum
Recommended The Ring of Gyges from Plato's The Republic
- Mar
26, 27 (301 to 323) Non-Western answers to some of these questions
Lecture 23 2k6
- April 2, 3
Catch up and review...
Lecture 24 2k6
Sample final exam 2k6
The blue links are pointers to articles and pages which are related (sometimes closely -- sometimes not so closely) to the philosophy we're studying or to the subjects which come up in discussion. Many are offered as suggestions that will add to your understanding of difficult issues and ideas. Take a look at them even if you don't have time to read them thoroughly.
Required readings are clearly marked by red text. All the required readings should be done prior to the lecture for which they appear.
The links marked "Powerpoint" include the quotations (particularly lengthy ones) and some of the other material shown in slides and overheads in each lecture. They are provided here to support your notetaking and keep you from scribbling madly in class. They do not outline the lecture in any way. You may want to print these out for yourself prior to each lecture.
The page numbers in parentheses refer to the Solomon textbook The Big Questions.
Other required links point to web pages which support the lectures in some way. Whatever is marked required, is fair game for class discussions, attendance questions and tests.
Still others (such as that for lecture 13, for example) are specially prepared sets of short readings which should be printed out and brought to class on the appropriate day.
This is a work in progress. New links are added often. In particular, check weekly for newly posted required reading.
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Below this line
are items from last year. I'm leaving it here for now for my information,
but feel free to follow any links which look interesting. Keep in
mind, though, that last year's lectures were somewhat differently ordered.
I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru....
Truffaut's
The Wild Child (NYTimes movie review (1970))
The Wild Child Movie
Review Apolloguide
FeralChildren.com
isolated, confined, wolf and wild children
Oliver
Sacks' "The River of Consciousness"
Steven
Pinker's The Blank Slate
Steven
Pinker Page
The
Meatrix
Everything
you need to know about the history of philosophy
Zeno
of Elea
Zeno's
Coffeehouse
The
Axial Period...
The
Axial Period
Hanover
Historical Texts Project
Presocratics
-- with texts (erraticimpact)
The
Presocratics (Wikipedia)
Students
shall not download. Yeah, sure!
Turn
On. Tune In. Download.
Heraclitus
Fragments as interpreted by the World Pantheist Movement
Heraclitus
Discussion and Fragments
Timeline
of Western Philosophy
For other
links to worthwhile reading, try some of my other pages:
Readablebits
The
Unofficial Humanities Home Page
Connections
to History and Philosophy
Connections
to the Ancient World
The
Underground Grammarian
QuoTable
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