Dr. Dave Yount's Philosophy Home Page

Dr. Y's Internet Writings:

• My first book: Plotinus the Platonist: A Comparative Account of Plato and Plotinus' Metaphysics (Amazon link)

• My second book: Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics (Amazon link)

• A free supplement to my first two books. It contains all the material, appendices, and so on, that the publisher said I couldn't include in them, due to space restrictions; it concludes my research on Plato and Plotinus.

• A chapter from Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece that is a biography of Plotinus (Amazon link)

• Synopses of my completed manuscripts and what's happening with them.

• My Report for International Travel to the Pacific APA, April 17-20, 2019.

• My Report for International Travel to the Pacific APA, April 9-11, 2009.

• The Importance of Philosophy, or "Why Should I Take Philosophy?"

• Nine Objections against Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow's claim in The Grand Design that philosophy is dead

• My essay on Harry Potter and Plato: "Boggarts, Dementors, and Plato, Oh My!"

• Zombies!? My MCC Zombie Symposium talk for Halloween 2018: "The Logical Impossibility of Zombies (and Other Philosophical Issues Involved with Them)"

• My comments on "Bill Maher's Religulous"

• What Richard Dawkins Gets Wrong in The God Delusion

• Wal-Mart Debate: My brief summary that Wal-Mart is unethical

• Wal-Mart Debate: My fuller argument that Wal-Mart is unethical

• Wal-Mart Debate: Preston Cameron's (my debate opponent's) Powerpoint (used with permission)

• The Truth and Uselessness of the phrase, "Everything Happens for a Reason"

• Arguments Against Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning (originally delivered 2/25/04 for a debate with the VP of Clonaid; please note that this writing does not necessarily represent my position on cloning - this piece was written for the sake of argument)

• The Ethics of Terrorism: One Philosopher's Perspective (a talk originally delivered on 12/4/02)

• Eight Arguments in Favor of Eating Meat and Objections Thereto

• Three Arguments Against Eating Meat (compiled by Dr. Y from Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals and the movie, "Cowspiracy")

• Philosopher Mylan Engel Jr.'s Argument in Favor of Vegetarianism (Dr. Y's notes on his article, with quotations)

• Consistency and the Conservative Abortion Position

• A Fair and Balanced Argument in Favor of Gay Marriage

• My joke: IF ..., you might be a philosopher 

Philosophical (and not-so-philosophical) Resources:

• Why Philosophy is Valuable, Getting a Career in Philosophy, Philosophy Major Salaries, and Otherwise Intelligent People Who have Unfairly Bashed Philosophy/Philosophers

• Dr. Y's List of Fallacies - What they are and why you should not commit them

• MCC Philosophy Club Website

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (excellent source)

• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (excellent source)

• Philosophy: An Online Resource (excellent source for beginners, including a Western Philosophy timeline, glossary of terms, etc.)

• Dr. Y's List of Book Recommendations for his Students (and other interested persons)

• Dr. Y's Tips on How to Do Research in Philosophy

• Dr. Barry Vaughan's Tips on How to Succeed in College

• The American Philosophical Association's Brief Guide for Philosophy Undergraduates - Enjoy!

• MCC Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies Home Page

• MCC Philosophy Club Home Page

• Raphael's famous portrait of Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient philosophers (called "The School of Athens")

• Interesting Things that Plato Wrote (according to Dr. Y)

• A picture of the scene at Socrates' Death, as imagined by Jacques-Louis David in 1787

• From the Lost Works of Porphyry: Questions for Christians

• Philosophy Games! They're ever so fun - really!

• Monty Python's Song about Philosophy

• Philosophical Humor ... and you didn't think it was possible?

• Dr. Y's rendition of Monty Python's Witch Argument from Monty Python & The Holy Grail, and Why it's Fallacious

• A comic book series/graphic novels called Action Philosophers? You don't say!

• Our community needs blood to help us all; schedule an appointment today!