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Philosophical Questions/Topics in Philosophy
(Mostly things for my PHIL 101 students)
What is philosophy?
- What is philosophy? (PhilBites Podcast)
- Stephen Fry What is Philosophy? (Video)
- What do philosophers do? (Cleese)
- What is philosophy? The Examined Life (Video)
- Sydney Poitier "doing" Plato's Allegory of the Cave (Audio)
- Audi, "Philosophy: A Brief Guide for Undergraduates"
- RocketBoom Philosophy Playlist
- Priest, What is philosophy? (video)
- Intuition Pumps, Dennett (Video)
- What is philosophy? (Jack Russell Weinstein)
- What is philosophy? (Philosophy Bites Podcast)
Why study philosophy?
- Russell, "The Value of Philosophy" (Text) (Audio)
- Russell, Message to the Future (Video)
- Russell, "Philosophy for Laymen"
- Carlisle, "Bertrand Russell: the everyday value of philosophy" (The Guardian)
- APA The Role of Philosophy Programs in Higher Education
- APA, Who studies philosophy?
- Philosophy and the GRE (APA)
- Philosophy and the LSAT (APA)
What is logic?
- The Joy of Logic
- Logic: The Structure of Reason (Video)
- The Nature of Arguments (6 part video series introducing logic)
- Inductive and deductive arguments (IEP)
- Logic, What is it good for? (Philosophy News)
- What is logic? Critical thinking?
- Fallacies Rocketboom
- Hare, Russell on Critical Thinking
What is conceptual analysis?
- Earl, "Classical Conceptual Analysis"
- Earl, "Concepts" (IEP)
Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophy of Religion (SEoP)
- The Ontological Argument (SEoP)
- The Ontological Argument (video)
- The Ontological Argument (History of Philosophy Podcast)
- The Cosmological Argument (SEoP)
- The Cosmological Argument (video)
- The Teleological Argument (SEoP)
- The Teleological Argument (video)
- Pascal's Wager on Philosophy Bites (podcast)
- The Problem of Evil (SEoP)
- The Problem of Evil (video)
- Lane & Tooley Debate the Existence of God (video)
Epistemology
- Epistemology Rocketboom
- Epistemology (IEP)
- Knowledge (IEP)
- The Gettier Problem
- Dretske on Gettier (TPM)
- Putnam on Science and Externalism
- Putnam: The depths and shallows of experience
- Putnam on Quine
- On Quine's Two Dogmas
- Persistence of Vision
- After Images
- Optical Illusions
- Gettier Case
- Epistemology (RocketBoom)
- On Externalism
- McDowell
- Are the senses silent?
- Searle on perception
- Right to your opinion
- Rowlands, M. A right to believe?
- Humpfrey, N. What Shall we Teach the Children? (aia news)
Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Mind
- Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Mind Events (PhilEvents)
- Topics
Theories of Mind
- Substance Dualism Robinson (SE)
- Dualism Eliasmith (DPM)
- Behaviorism Graham (SE)
- Behaviorism Prinz (DPM)
- Identity Theory Smart (SE)
- Identity Theory Witmer (DPM)
- Functionalism Levin (SE)
- Functionalism I Mandik (DPM)
- Functionalism II Barbiero (DPM)
- Philosophy of Mind Eliasmith (DPM)
- The Mind-Body Problem Eliasmith (DPM)
- Consciousness
- Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan (SE)
- Qualia Tye (SE)
- Qualia: The Knowledge Argument Nida-Rümelin (SE)
- Consciousness & IntentionalitySiewert (SE)
- Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness Carruthers (SE)Syllabi & Web Pages (also see Photos)
Philosophers' Home Pages with Syllabi
- David Chalmers' Web Page
- Ned Block NYU
- Jim Pryor Princeton
- John Searle Berkeley
- David Papineau King's College
- Elizabeth Camp (Penn)
- Zoe Drayson
- Warren Schmaus
Philosophy of Mind in the News/Articles
Metaphilosophy (In progress)
- Metaphilosophy (philpapers)
- Dietrich, There is no progress in philosophy
- What is philosophy--and what is it for? (Philosophers Mail)
- The Philosopher (JPSE)
- Taxonomy of Philosophy (Lageard)
- Is philosophy dead? (Suber)
Humanities, etc.
- Hitz, Freedom and intellectual life (First Things)
Philosophy in the News, Around the Web
- For philosophy majors...(WP)
- Samuelson, Why I teach Plato to Plumbers (The Atlantic)
- When philosophy lost its way (NYT-The Stone)
- Can philosophy survive...? (Times Higher Ed)
- What to study in college
- Why is philosophy so straight?
- Why every student should study philosophy (Kelly)
- The hard problem of public philosophy
- The Earning Power of Philosophy Majors (Atlantic)
- Philosophical Toolkit in Tow (The Conversation)
- Philosophy is not useless (The Odyssey)
- Reese, Why study philosophy? To challenge your own point of view: Interview with Rebecca Goldstein (The Atlantic)
- An antidote to injustice (Morton)
- Why we need philosophy communication
- Stern, The complications of philosophy (The Point)
- That useless liberal arts degree [philosophy] (Forbes)
- Nussbaum, On philosophy
- Hallman, Philosophy's not dead (Odyssey)
- Searle: It upsets me when I read...(New Philosopher)
- Does philosophy have a problem with women? (The Guardian)
- Philosophy via Facebook? Why Not. Schwitzgebel (LA Times)
- Philosophy students in the news
- Is philosophy inquiry or therapy? Warburten (Ideas/Beta)
- How can philosophy make itself more relevant? Anderson
- The long reach of reason (TED)
- When did science and philosophy separate into different fields of study? (Slate/Quora)
- Why we need philosophers engaged in public life NPR
- Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Value of Philosophy (HuffPo)
- How to save liberal arts education
- How to sell philosophy (Slate)
- Be Employable, Study Philosophy (Salon.com)
- Why I majored in philosophy (PolicyMic)
- What do philosophers do? (The Atlantic)
- The unexpected way philosophers are changing the world of business (HuffPo)
- Shammas, For a Better Society, Teach Philosophy in High Schools (HuffPost)
- Has physics made philosophy and religion obsolete? (Atlantic)
- Why philosophy has been central to legal education for more that a century (Leiter in HuffPo)
- Children doing Philosophy (NPR)
- Philosophy Info for Undergrads (APA)
- Philosophy in the k-12 classroom (The Guardian)
- Philosopher as Management Consultant (Worldcrunch)
- PhilosophyNews
- 60 second philosopher
Issues in Philosophy
- Is polite philosophical discussion possible?
- (Daily Nous)
- How rude (Kieran Healy)
- WHy do women leave philosophy?
- What it is like to be a woman in philosophy
- Publishing Feminist Philosophy
- Data on Women in Philosophy****
- Advancing Women in Philosophy
- The Philosophical Gourmet Report
- Do I look like a philosopher?
- Philosophy has a Sexual Harassment Problem
- Women as Academic Authors
- Analytic/Continental Divide
Today's Philosophers & Philosophy Blogs
- Brian Leiter
- Daily Nous
- Feminist Philosophers
- In Socrates' Wake
- Knowledge and Experience
- Looks Philosophical
- the nature of existence
- New Philosopher
- Philosophy Carnival
- The Philosophical Smoker
- Philosophy Now
- Philosophy TV
- PhilosophyNews
Teaching and Learning
Writing in Philosophy
University Education
- Ways Universities are an Illusion (NYT)
- Schwartz, "What 'Learning how to think' really means"(CHE)
- Why do we need the humanities? (Conversation)
- What is college for? (CHE)
Higher Ed/Teaching
Funny stuff!
- Office Hours
- Philosophy professor quotes
- Fallacy ref
- How to write an email to your professor
- John Cleese: Public Service Announcements
- Don't be this student!
- Or this one!
- She's a witch! Monty Python
- Sh*t Philosophers Say
- Chalmers' Seriously Old Page
- Old Miss Humor
- Headlines
- Philosopher Shaming
- Meditations from Philosophy, Bro
Good stuff
- Great video on perceptual experience!
- Comma Queen
- RE: Your email to your professor
- Things Philosophers Say (Word Clouds)
- What are you arguing about? (The Guardian)
- Philosophy Videos
Ethics
- Francis Beckwith's Lecture on Relativism
- Ethical Egoism & its Problems
- Divine Command Theory
- DCT & Euthyphro's Dilemma
- Utilitarianism
- Kant' Moral Philosophy
- Virtue Ethics
- Care Ethics
Free Will