Philosophy 101 (Bentley College): Home Page

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Section 3:
MW, 11:20 a.m.–12:35 p.m., Jennison 407
Section 7:
MW, 5:00 p.m.–6:15 p.m., Jennison 407

Philosophy 101
Problems of Philosophy
Bentley College
Fall 2004

Instructor: Miles Rind
Office: Morison 114
MW, 10:10–11:10
E-mail
Personal home page

Home Page
Updated December 9, 2004

Course Materials
(Most recent items first; items are web pages unless otherwise indicated)

Handouts

In case there is any problem with the web-page version of the exam questions, here is the same page as a Microsoft Word document

Truth Conditions for Conditionals (PDF file; distributed on 12/06)

Notes on Logic, part III (PDF file; distributed on 11/22)

Three arguments in Plato's Gorgias (revised version of handout and quiz of 11/17; distributed on 11/22)

Notes on Aristotle (PDF file; distributed on 11/15)

Notes on Logic, part II (PDF file; distributed on 10/13)

Notes on Logic (part I) (PDF file; distributed on 9/29)

Course syllabus (PDF file)

Composition guide (PDF file)

Other materials

Scoring table used for the mid-term examination

Analysis of the James passage used in the classroom exercise of 10/4/04

Hugo Bedau, "Drafting and Revising the Philosophical Essay" (PDF file)
A scanned excerpt from Hugo Bedau, Thinking and Writing about Philosophy (Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996), pp. 126–132; contains a sample student paper with instructor's comments

Readings

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book II (excerpts)

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book I (excerpts)

Edmund Gettier, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"

A. J. Ayer, "Knowing as Having the Right to Be Sure"

William James, "The Will to Believe" (PDF file)

William Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief" (PDF file)

Aristophanes, The Clouds, translated by Ian Johnston

John Arthur, "Religion, Morality, and Conscience" (PDF file)

Bertrand Russell, "The Value of Philosophy" (PDF file)

Assignments

Assignment for Monday, December 13