Philosophy 1A

HANDOUTS AND LECTURE NOTES

HANDOUTS & LECTURE NOTES
TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Why Study Philosophy?
• Philosophy: "The Ultimate Transferable Skill"
• Philosophy-in-General Handouts
• Search Engines in Philosophy
• Philosophy Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Guides
• More Philosophy Guides
• Online Papers and E-Texts in Philosophy
• Philosophy Goes to the Movies
• Guides to Writing Philosophy
• Reading and Writing for the Course
• Discussion
• Overall Rankings: Top Ph.D Programs in Philosophy
• Philosophy Blogs
• Philosophy Bites Podcasts
• Philosophers Talk About Philosophy and Philosophers
• Puzzles, Paradoxes and Illusions
• Philosophical Humor
• Philosophy Songs
• God and Religion
• Mind and Body
• More Mind and Body
• Knowledge and Reality
• Ethics, Justice and the Good Life

Why Study Philosophy?

• "Why Study Philosophy?" (YouTube).
• Philosophy Students Score High on LSAT, GMAT and the GRE
• Chart of How Students Performed on Graduate Admission Tests
• Philosophy Rocks the Graduate Admission Tests
• "The Value of Philosophy" (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
• The Value of Philosophy (St. Edward's University)
• The Value of Philosophy (University of Rhode Island)
• "The Value of Philosophy" (Bertrand Russell).
• "Why Study Philosophy" (2) .
• "Why Study Philosophy?" (3) .
• "Why Study Philosophy?" (4) [Video] .
• "The Power of Philosophy" Yvette Gross (NPR) (MP3)

Philosophy: "The Ultimate Transferable Skill"

• "Philosophy: A Quintessentially Modern Discipline" (London Times )
• "How Does Philosophy" Relate to My Career?" (1) .
• "How Does Philosophy Relate to My Career?" (2).
• "What Can You Do with a Philosophy Degree?"
• "Skills That Will Be Developed Through Your Study of Philosophy"
• "A Generation of Students Opt for the Examined Life" (New York Times).
• "I Think, Therefore I Earn" (The Guardian).
• "Top Students Commit To Using Their Knowledge" (USA TODAY).
• "Philosophy Degree Pays Off in Life and Work" (New York Times)
• "To Beat the Market: Hire a Philosopher" (New York Times)
• "How Philosophy Pays Off"

Philosophy-in-General Handouts

• "What Is Philosophy?" - A Brief Guide (APA)
• Well-Known Philosophy Majors
• John Cleese: 1: What is it that philosophers do? (0:55)
  
• John Cleese: 2: Living the ideal of a scientific life (0:42)
  
• John Cleese: 3: You are fully alive only if you live in the present (0:34)
  
• John Cleese: 4: We move in a formation (0:41)
  
• John Cleese: 5: The meaning of life (0:36)
  
• John Cleese: 6: Obligations to future generations (0:41)
  
• John Cleese: 7: Desiring what we don't have (0:52)
  
• John Cleese: 8: Life seems better elsewhere (0:38)
  
• John Cleese: 9: Who philosophy has inspired (0:46)
  
• John Cleese: 10: Is it good the world is becoming more uniform? (1:00)
  
• John Cleese: 11: Mystery and politics (0:40)
  
• John Cleese: 12: Philosophy bakes no bread, so what is it good for? (0:52)
  
• John Cleese: 13: Quality of life or quantity? (0:33)
  
• John Cleese: 14: Courage is knowing what to fear (0:50)
  
• John Cleese: 15: Is seeing our dreams fulfilled terrible? (0:35)
  
• John Cleese: 16: Values change (0:44)
  
• John Cleese: 17: How should one decide what to do? (0:40)
  
• John Cleese: 18: Philosophy: does it really matter? (0:32)
  
• John Cleese: 19: The 21st century belongs to philosophy (0:42)
  
• John Cleese: 20: How can we tell if our neighbors are any good? (0:40)
  
• John Cleese: 21: Why are we afraid to die? (0:31)
  
• John Cleese: 22: What's important? (0:38)
  
• Philosophy Image Gallery: "Philosophers Say 'Cheese'"
• Women in Philosophy Gallery
• Philosophers' Image Gallery (Barcelona)
• Philosophers' Image Gallery (Netherlands)
• Philosophy Sub-Fields with Sound Effects (Wadsworth)

Search Engines in Philosophy

• PERSEUS: An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece
• Lander Philosophy Search Engine
• Noesis: Philosophical Research Online

Philosophy Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Guides

• The STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA of Philosophy
• The INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA of Philosophy:
• GUIDE TO PHILOSOPHY on the Internet, Peter Suber, Earlham College
• GUIDE TO PHILOSOPHY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
• EPISTEME LINKS
• ETHICS RESOURCES
• ETHICS UPDATES, maintained by Lawrence Hinman
• The University of Alberta's COGNITIVE SCIENCE DICTIONARY
• SWIF Philosophy of Mind Page
• A DICTIONARY of Philosophical Terms and Names (Garth Kemerling)
• THE PHILOSOPHERS' INDEX - Brandeis Access Only
  
• PAST MASTERS - Brandeis Access Only
  LEXIS/NEXIS DATABASE - Brandeis Access Only
  
• JSTOR (Electronic Journal Archive) - Brandeis Access Only
  
• METAETHICS Bibliography, J. Lenman
  
• Philosopher's VIRTUAL LIBRARY
  
• PHILOSOPHY OF MIND: Annotated Bibliography, D. Chalmers
  

More Guides to Philosophy

• Sophia Project - from Molloy College, includes a collection of resources such as "What is Philosophy Anyway?", "Logic in a Nutshell", and many, many others.
• Lexicon of Foreign Words in English Philosophy Texts, a lengthy and helpful listing of foreign language words used in philosophy (from Josh Wood)
• Philosophy Timeline (Garth Kemerling)
• How to get Better Grades on your Philosophy Papers (Martin Young) - a detailed guide!
• Tips on Writing a Philosophy Paper - (Douglas Portmore) - a detailed guide!
• Writing Philosophy Papers: A Student Guide (Oregon State University)
• Guide to the Study of Philosophy (Garth Kemerling) A comprehensive guide for the new student of philosophy
• Philosophical Debates - a collection of nice introductory bibliographies on some of the major philosophical questions throughout history
• Why Study Philosophy

Online Papers and E-Texts Philosophy

• Classics of Western Philosophy, maintained by Andreas Teuber
• The Library of Philosophy, maintained by Rauno Huttunen
• Online Papers in Philosophy, maintained by Brian Weatherson
• Classic Texts in Ethics (Lawrence Hinman)
• People with Online Papers in Philosophy (David Chalmers)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Online Papers from NYU Philosophers
• People with Online Papers in Philosophy, compiled by David Chalmers
• Sites with Online Papers on Philosophy
• The Semantics Archive
• Online Papers in the Philosophy of Science
• BEARS in Moral and Political Philosophy
  
• Canadian Journal of Philosophy
  
• Environmental Ethics
  
• Ethics
  
• Hypatia
  
• Mind
  
• Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
  
• Blackwell Publishers Synergy
  
• Philosophers Imprint
  
• Philosopher's Web Magazine
  
• Philosophical Review - Brandeis Access Only
  
• Philosophy & Public Affairs - Brandeis Access Only
  
• The Good Society - Brandeis Access Only
  
• The Human Rights Quarterly - Brandeis Access Only
  
• "Hypatia" (Online) - Brandeis Access Only
  
• The Journal of Democracy - Brandeis Access Only
  
• The Journal of the History of Philosophy - Brandeis Access Only
  
• Ethics and the Environment - Brandeis Access Only
  
• The Journal of the History of Ideas - Brandeis Access Only
  
• Philosophy and Literature - Brandeis Access Only
  

Philosophy Goes to the Movies

• "INCEPTION" Official Web Site (Adobe Flash Player Required)
  
• TRAILER AND CLIPS FROM "INCEPTION" (NY Times)
  
• "THE INFLUENCES OF 'INCEPTION'" (NY Times)
  
• "ANATOMY OF A SCENE FROM 'INCEPTION'" (NY Times)
  
• "'INCEPTION': Decoding the Mind of Chris Nolan" (Times review)
  
• "INCEPTION": Chris Nolan, the Man Behind the Dream Scape (Times)
  
• "INCEPTION": Chris Nolan, the Man and his Dreams (NY Times)
  

• FIVE WAYS TO LOOK AT "INCEPTION" (Slate)
  

• Philosophical Issues in THE MATRIX (Pryor)
  
• THE MATRIX TRAILER"
• MATRIX Movie Mistakes

  
  Papers by Philosophers on The Matrix

  • "Dream Skepticism" by Christopher Grau
  • "Brians-in-a-Vat Skepticism" by Christopher Grau
  • "The Experience Machine" by Christopher Grau
  • "The Matrix as Metaphysics" by David J. Chalmers
  • "The Matrix of Dreams" by Colin McGinn
  • "The Brave New World of The Matrix" by Hubert and Stephen Dreyfus
  • "Reflections on the First Matrix" by Richard Hanley
  • "Reality, What Matters, and the Matrix " by Iakdvos Vasilou
  • "The Matrix - Our Future?" by Kevin Warwick
  • "What's So Bad About Living in The Matrix" by James Pryor
  • "Simulacra and Simulation" by Richard Hanley
  • "Artificial Ethics" by Julia Driver
  • "Gnosticism, Buddhism and The Matrix" by Dailey and Wagner
  • "Neo's Freedom . . . Whoa!" by Michael McKenna
  • "Plato's 'Cave' and The Matrix" by John Partridge
• Philosophical Issues in BLADE RUNNER (Pryor)
• "Towards a Holistic Definition of the Self and Blade Runner"
• BLADE RUNNER: Original Screenplay
• BLADE RUNNER: 2019 Off-World Web Page
• BLADE RUNNER: In the News Page
• Philosophical Issues in TWELVE MONKEYS (Pryor)
• "Meta-Film:: Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?"
• MINORITY REPORT TRAILER
• The Philip Dick Short Story
• Official Philip Dick Website
• ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
• LACUNA, INC. (Sign up today)
• MOMENTO: The Unofficial Chris Nolan Website
• MOMENTO OFFICIAL WEB SITE:
• Stanley Cavell: A Philosophy of Film

Guides to Reading, Writing and Doing Philosophy

• GUIDELINES ON WRITING A PHILOSOPHY PAPER (Pryor)
• HOW TO READ A PHILOSOPHY PAPER (Pryor)
• WHAT IS AN ARGUMENT? (Pryor)
• VOCABULARY DESCRIBING ARGUMENTS (Pryor)
• SOME GOOD AND BAD FORMS OF ARGUMENT (Pryor)
• ANALYZING CONCEPTS (Pryor)
• A PHILOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY FOR BEGINNERS (Pryor)
• CONDUCT AND ACADEMIC HONESTY (Harvard Summer School)
• ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM (Teuber)
• HARVARD GUIDE TO WRITING WITH SOURCES
• YOUR EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVACY (FERPA)
• NONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY POLICIES

Reading and Writing for the Course

• 2011 COURSE REQUIREMENTS.

• READING PART ONE.

• READING PART TWO (2011).

  READING PART THREE (2011)

  READING PART FOUR (2011)

• PAPER TOPIC NUMBER ONE (2011).

• PAPER TOPIC NUMBER TWO (2011).

• PAPER TOPIC NUMBER THREE (2011).

• The Trolley Problem.

• William James , "The Will to Believe".

• William K. Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief".

• Bertrand Russell, "Why I Am Not a Christian".

• Thomas Nagel, "Moral Luck" (optional)

• P. F. Strawson, "Freedom and Resentment".

Discussion

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Top Ph.D Programs in Philosophy

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• 3. Princeton University
• 4. University of Pittsburgh
• 5. University of Michigan , Ann Arbor
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• 7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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• 32. University of Pennsylvania

Philosophy Blogs

• Aporia - - A blog devoted to skepticism.
• Buffalo Philosophy Blog - - A group blog by graduate students of the State University of New York, University at Buffalo dedicated to issues in metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, ethics and epistemology..
• Certain Doubts - - Devoted to matters epistemological.
• Epistemic Value - - A blog devoted to epistemological issues run by Duncan Pritchard out of the University of Edinburgh.
• Ethics Etc. - - Discussing contemporary philosophical issues in ethics and related areas.
• Metaphysical Values - - A blog on the nature of things, created by the Centre for Metaphysics and Mind, Leeds, UK.
• PEA Soup - - A blog dedicated to philosophy, ethics, and the academy.
• Philosophy of Information - - News and comments on the philosophy of computing and information, the philosophy of technology, information technology, computer ethics and information ethics.
• Practical Ethics - - Ethical Perspectives on the News.
• Seeing Things - - A blog devoted to philosophy, phenomenology, and cognitive neuroscience of perception created by Sean Kelly.

Podcasts from Philosophy Bites

• Allen Buchanan on Enhancement Philosophy Bite
• Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Psychology Philosophy Bite
• Thomas Hurka on Pleasure Philosophy Bite
• Terence Irwin on Aristotle's Ethics Philosophy Bite
• Raymond Tallis on Assisted Dying Philosophy Bite
• Julian Savulescu on the 'Yuk' Factor Philosophy Bite
• Sebastian Gardner on Sartre on Bad Faith Philosophy Bite
• Keith Ward on Idealism in Eastern and Western Philosophy Philosophy Bite
• David Papineau on Scientific Realism Philosophy Bite
• Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism Philosophy Bite
• Chandran Kukathas on Genocide Philosophy Bite
• M.M. McCabe on the Paradox of Inquiry Philosophy Bite
• Raymond Tallis on Parmenides Philosophy Bite
• Don Cupitt on Non-Realism about God Philosophy Bite
• Wendy Brown on Tolerance Philosophy Bite
• Anne Phillips on Political Representation Philosophy Bite
• Anthony Grayling on Bombing Civilians in Wartime Philosophy Bite
• Christopher Shields on Personal Identity Philosophy Bite
• Alexander Nehamas on Friendship Philosophy Bite
• Raymond Geuss on Real Politics Philosophy Bite
• Roger Crisp on Virtue Philosophy Bite
• Anthony Appiah on Experiments in Ethics Philosophy Bite
• Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality Philosophy Bite
• Peter Cave on Paradoxes Philosophy Bite
• Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics Philosophy Bite
• Barry C. Smith on Neuroscience Philosophy Bite
• Ray Monk on Philosophy and Biography Philosophy Bite
• M.M. McCabe on Socratic Method Philosophy Bite
• Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth Philosophy Bite
• Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling Philosophy Bite
• Alex Neill - the Paradox of Tragedy Philosophy Bite
• Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince Philosophy Bite
• Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil Philosophy Bite
• Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights Philosophy Bite
• Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Civilization Philosophy Bite
• John Broome on Weighing Lives Philosophy Bite
• Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness Philosophy Bite
• John Dunn on Locke on Toleration Philosophy Bite
• Will Kymlicka on Minority Rights Philosophy Bite
• Jennifer Hornsby on Human Agency Philosophy Bite
• Tim Scanlon on Free Speech Philosophy Bite
• Donna Dickenson on Body Shopping Philosophy Bite
• Mary Warnock on the Right to Have a Baby Philosophy Bite
• Anthony Kenny on Aquinas' Ethics Philosophy Bite
• Michael Sandel on Genetic Enhancement in Sport Philosophy Bite
• Jonathan Wolff on Marx on Alienation Philosophy Bite
• Peter Singer on Human Use of Animals Philosophy Bite
• Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism Philosophy Bite
• Richard Reeves on Mill's On Liberty Philosophy Bite
• David Miller on National Responsibility Philosophy Bite
• Peter Millican on Hume's Significance Philosophy Bite
• Janet Radcliffe Richards on Men and Women's Natures Philosophy Bite
• Raimond Gaita on Torture Philosophy Bite
• Derek Matravers on the Definition of Art Philosophy Bite
• Melissa Lane on Plato and Totalitarianism Philosophy Bite
• Thomas Pink on Free Will Philosophy Bite
• Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism Philosophy Bite
• A.C. Grayling on Descartes' Cogito Philosophy Bite
• Hugh Mellor on Time Philosophy Bite
• Richard Tuck on Free Riding Philosophy Bite
• Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy Philosophy Bite
• Richard Norman on Humanism Philosophy Bite
• Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics Philosophy Bite
• Angie Hobbs on Plato on War Philosophy Bite
• Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy Philosophy Bite
• G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth Philosophy Bite
• Barry Stroud on Skepticism Philosophy Bite
• Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments Philosophy Bite
• Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions Philosophy Bite
• Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism Philosophy Bite
• Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness Philosophy Bite
• Alain de Botton on Philosophy In and Out of the Academy Philosophy Bite
• Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love Philosophy Bite
• Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design Philosophy Bite
• Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent Philosophy Bite
• Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State Philosophy Bite
• Anthony Kenny on his New History of Philosophy Philosophy Bite
• Tim Crane on Mind and Body Philosophy Bite
• Jonathan Ree on Philosophy as an Art Philosophy Bite
• Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism Philosophy Bite
• Peter Adamson on Avicenna Philosophy Bite
• Brad Hooker on Consequentialism Philosophy Bite
• Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism Philosophy Bite
• Jonathan Wolff on Disadvantage Philosophy Bite
• Timothy Williamson on Vagueness Philosophy Bite
• David Papineau on Physicalism Philosophy Bite
• Anthony Grayling on Atheism Philosophy Bite
• Adrian Moore on Infinity Philosophy Bite
• Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism Philosophy Bite
• Edward Craig - What is Philosophy? Philosophy Bite
• Anne Phillips on Multiculturalism Philosophy Bite
• Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture Philosophy Bite
• Barry Smith on Wine Philosophy Bite
• Miranda Fricker on Epistemic Injustice Philosophy Bite
• John Cottingham on The Meaning of Life Philosophy Bite
• Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil Philosophy Bite
• Mary Warnock on Philosophy in Public Life Philosophy Bite
• Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave Philosophy Bite

Philosophers Talk About Philosophy and Philosophers

• A Conversation with Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle
  Part One Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five.

• A Conversation with Bert Dreyfus on Husserl and Heidegger
  Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five.

• A Conversation with J. P. Stern on Nietzsche
  Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five.

• A Conversation with Peter Singer on Marx and Hegel
  Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five.

• A Conversation with Anthony Quinton on Spinoza and Leibniz
  Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five .

• A Conversation with John Passmore on Hume
  Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five.

• A Conversation with Sydney Morgenbesser on the American Pragmatists
  Part One, Part Two, Part Thee, Part Four, Part Five.

• John Searle on Wittgenstein
  Part One , Part Two , Part Three , Part Four , Part Five,

• Hilary Putnam on Philosophy of Science
  Part One , Part Two , Part Three , Part Four , Part Five.

• A Conversation with Wilfred van Orman Quine
  Part One , Part Two , Part Three , Part Four , Part Five.

• A Conversation with Ayer on Frege and Russell
  Part One , Part Teo , Part Three , Part Four , Part Five.

• A Conversation with Bernard Williams on Descartes
  Part One , Part Teo , Part Three , Part Four , Part Five.

• A Conversation with Miles Burnyeat on Plato
  Part One , Part Two , Part Three , Part Four , Part Five.

• A Conversation with Iris Murdoch on Philosophy & Literature
  Part One , Part Two , Part Three , Part Four , Part Five.

• A Conversation with Geoffrey Warnock on Kant
  Part One , Part Two , Part Three , Part Four , Part Five.

• A Conversation with Michael Ayers on Locke and Berkeley
  Part One , Part Two , Part Three , Part Four , Part Five.

  Dan Dennett on Charles Darwin
  Part One , Two , Three , Four , Five , Six , Seven.

Puzzles, Paradoxes and Illusions

• The Surprise Exam
• The Archer's Paradox
• The Prisoners' Dilemma Game
• Paradoxes from Brainteasers
• Russell's Paradox from the Stanford Encyclopedia
• Sorites Paradox from the Stanford Encyclopedia
• Logical Paradoxes from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Some Paradoxes from Geoff Wilkins
• Zeno's Paradoxes
• Paradox or Fallacy?
• Visual Illusions
• Illusions and Paradoxes: Seeing Is Believing
• Seeing (The San Francisco Exploratorium)
• Brain and Behvior
• Optical Illusions from Michael Bach
• V. S. Ramachandran's Illusions
• Escher Collection on the Web
• The M. C. Escher Official Website
• Grand Ilusions

Philosophical Humor

• Philosophy Football (Monthy Python Video)
• The Argument Clinic (Monty Python Video)
• Monthy Python's Argument Clinic
• Berkeley Uses Locke's Definitions To Eliminate the Material World
• "Thus Ate Zarathustra" by Woody Allen
• Philosophy Comix
• Definitions of Terms from Inside the Profession
• History of Philosophy from the students' POV (compiled by Stephen Hicks)
• Philosophy Games and Interactive Activities (from TPM)
• Causes of Death of Philosophers: A - Z (from D. H. Mellor)
• Philosophy Action Figures (words and pictures by Ian Vandewalker)
• Argument 101 by David Barry
• Philosofighter (a 3-D game from Drunken Pirate Software)
• Contemporary Analytical Philosophy in Monty Python
• Self-Reference Jokes (a collection)
• "Being & Tymers" (phenomenological analysis of being-in-the-hood)
• The Philosophy of Kissing
• On God's Perfections
• Philosophy Break-Up Lines (from Brian Weatherson, Cornell)
• Philosophy Light-Bulb Jokes
• Philosophical Warning Labels
• "Why Did the [Philosopher] Cross the Road?"
• What Common Philosophical Terms Mean to the Layperson
• Why No One Plays Golf with a Philosopher
• The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook
• Secondary School Student Howlers and the Like
• The Twinkies Project
• How to Catch an Elephant
• Introductory Philosophy Quiz
• Four (really, really dreadful) Philosophy Jokes
• Campaign Slogans of the Great Philosophers
• The World's Shortest Philosophy Books
• The Philosopher's Revenge
• A Michael Frayn Parody of Wittgenstein
• Philosophical Humor (compiled by David Chalmers)
• Philosophy Crosswords
• The Philosophical Lexicon (edited by Daniel Dennett)

Philosophy Songs

• The Philosophers Drinking Song (aka "Bruce's Song")
• Words to the Philosophers Drinking Song by Eric Idle
  Philosophy Songs from the Band "The Monads", including
  • "You Are My Everything" (An ode to Spinoza)
    
  • "Counterparts" (Me and My Clone)
    
  • "The Missing Shade of Blues" (David Hume Blues)
    
  • "Slap Me Happy" (A Celebration of Temporary Non-being)
    
  • "Meinongian Babe" (The Infinity of Possible Worlds)
    
  • "I Need Your Love" (Fuzzy Logic)
• Philosophy Songs (featuring full length music and MP3's,
  with lyrics to enable you to "sing along" if you so desire)

God and Religion

• What Sign or Discovery Would Convince You That God Exists?
• Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God
• Questions About God's Nature
• Religion as an Activity or a Practice
• Anselm's Ontological Argument
• Stanford Encyclopedia: "Ontological Arguments"
• Stanford Encyclopedia: "Descartes' Ontological Argument"
• The Cosmological Argument
• Stanford Encyclopedia: "The Cosmological Argument"
• The Argument from Religious Experience
• Stanford Encyclopedia: "Pascal's Wager"
• The Problem of Evil
• Stanford Encyclopedia: "The Problem of Evil"
• Nick Tattersall: "The Evidential Argument from Evil"
• The Argument from Design
• Paley's Version of the "Design" Argument [Excerpts]
• Steven Weinberg: "A Designer Universe?"
• Robert Wright: "The 'New' Creationism"
• Michael Shemmer: "Intelligent Design and the Fossil Record"
• Stephen Hawking's Universe: "Intelligent Design and the Fossil Record"
• Stephen Jay Gould: "Evolution as Fact and Theory"
• WEB-EXHIBITT: "The Panda's Thumb"
• Stephen Jay Gould: "Hooking Leviathan by Its Past"
• Stephen Jay Gould: "Creationism: Genesis vs. Geology"
• Stephen Jay Gould: "Impeaching a Self-Appointed Judge"
• Stephen Jay Gould: "Testimony for McLean v. Arkansas"
• Stephen Jay Gould" "Deposition for McLean v. Arkansas"
• Stephen Jay Gould: "Darwin's Untimely Burial"
• Stephen Jay Gould: "Dorothy, It's Really Oz"
• Stephen Jay Gould: "Darwinian Fundamentalism"
• "Darwinian Fundamentalism: An Exchange"
• "Dan Dennett's Strange Idea"
• "Dan Dennett Replies to Orr's Review"
• "H. Allen Orr Replies to Dennett's Reply to Orr"
• H. Allen Orr: "Why Intelligent Design Isn't"
• Dan Dennett: "Show Me the Science"
• Dan Dennett: "Intuition Pumps"
• Dan Dennett: "The Evolution of Culture"
• Dan Dennett: "Religion Just Another Meme"
• H. Allen Orr: "What the Science of Religion Can't Prove"
• Bertrand Russell: "Why I Am Not a Theist (1927)"
• Blaise Pascal: "Pascal's Wager" (translation of the Original Text)
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Pascal's Wager"
• W. K. Clifford: "The Ethics of Belief (1877)"
• William James: "The Will to Believe (1896)"
• Kelly James Clark: "Without Evidence or Argument"
• Contemporary English-Speaking Philosophers Who Beieve in God"
• Summary of Blackburn's Argument Against Miracles and Testimony"

Mind and Body

• What Is Consciousness?
• The McGurk Effect
• Magic and the Brain
• Octopus: Of Two Minds?
• How Smart Are Dogs?
• Watson: The Smartest Machine on Earth
• Papers on Consciousness Online (Collected by David Chalmers) - LINK
  The Concept of Consciousness - LINK
  Dualism - LINK
  Zombies - LINK
  Qualia - LINK
  The Unity of Consciousness - LINK
  The Turing Test - LINK
  The Chinese Room - LINK
  Personal Identity and the Self - LINK
  Free Will - LINK
• The Mind-Body Problem
• The Zombie Possibility
• The Mutant Possibility
• Chat with A. L. I. C. E.
• ELIZA
• Eliza, Computer Therapist
• Daniel Dennett Talks with Alan Alda
• A Conversation with Cynthia Breazeal
• Strong A. I. Evolves
• M. I. T.'s TODDLER
• The TURING TEST
• The CHINESE ROOM Argument
• The TURING TEST and the CHINESE ROOM Argument
• ZOMBIES (again)
• Zombies On the Web (Chalmers) - LINK
• Freedom of the Will
• Causation and Responsibility
• Personal Identity
• The Ship of Theseus
• ABC NEWS Australian Scientists Make Teleporting a Reality
  
• IBM Report: "Quantum Teleportation"
  
• The SPIDER-MAN Clone Saga
• WILLIAMS: "Self and the Future" (1970) - Brandeis Access Only
  
• PARFIT: "Personal Identity (1971) - Brandeis Access Only

More Mind and Body

• An Interview with Antonio Damasio on Consciousness and the Emotions
• Review of Damasio's book DESCARTES' ERROR
• PBS Series: "The Secret Life of the Brain"
  
• PBS Series: "The Secret Life of the Brain - The Baby's Brain"
  
• PBS Series: "The Secret Life of the Brain - The Child's Brain"
  
• PBS Series: "The Secret Life of the Brain - The Teenage Brain"
  
• PBS Series: "The Secret Life of the Brain - The Adult Brain"
  
• PBS Series: "The Secret Life of the Brain - The Aging Brain"
  
• PBS Series: "The Secret Life of the Brain" (The History of the Brain)
  
• PBS Series: "The Secret Life of the Brain" (A 3-D Tour
  
• PBS Series: "The Secret Life of the Brain" (Mind Illusions)
  
• PBS Series: "The Secret Life of the Brain" (What Is A Brain Scan?)
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - How the Brain Creates the Mind by Antonio Damasio [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - The Problem of Consciousness by Francis Crick and Christof Koch [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - Vision: A Window on Consciousness by Nikos K. Logothetis [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - The Split brain Revisited by Michael S. Gazzaniga [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - Sex Differences in the Brain by Doreen Kimura [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - New Nerve Cells for the Adult Brain by Gerd Kempermann and Fred H. Gage [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - Sign Language in the Brain by Gregory Hickok, Ursula Bellugi and Edward S. Klima [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - The Meaning of Dreams by Jonathan Winson [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - Emotion, Memory and the Brain by Joseph E. LeDoux [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - The Neurobiology of Fear by Ned H. Kalin [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - The Mind-Body Interaction in Disease by Esther M. Sternberg and Philip W. Gold [PDF FILE]
  
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ISSUE: "The Hidden Mind" - The Puzzle of Conscious Experience by David J. Chalmers, [PDF FILE]
  
• Art and the Brain (Teuber et al): "Brightness in Art"
• When Things Seem to Move
• Depth
• Unnatural Hues
• Margaret Livingstone's Home Page
• Science Illuminates Art
• Samir Zeki Home Page
• Chapter I of ARE YOU A MACHINE? by Elie Sternberg

Knowledge and Reality

• Knowledge as Justified True Belief
• Our Knowledge of the External World
  
• Knowledge (Again)
• What's To Know? (Nagel)
• The Elusive Lamb Chop (Luce)
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Unger)
• President Clinton Takes the Stand (Velasquez)
• A Penny for Your Thoughts
• What's in a Basketball
• "Pop" Goes the Balloon

Ethics, Justice and the Good Life

• John on a Botany Expedition in the Deep Reaches of the Amazon
• An Infant With No Prospects: Baby Theresa
• The Case for Torture (Michael Levin)
• The Case of the Speluncean Explorers
• Queen v. Dudley (1884)
• United States v. Holmes (1842)
• Utilitarianism
• The Critique of Utilitarianism
• The Trolley Problem
• John Becomes a Transplant Doctor
• Kantian Ethics
• Punishment
• Virtue Ethics
• Rachels: "Active and Passive Euthanasia" [PDF]
• THE PHILOSOPHERS' BRIEF: Assisted Suicide
• More on Utilitarianism
• More on Rule-Utilitarianism
• More on Kant's Moral Philosophy
• More on Punishment
• More on Rights
• More on Human Rights
• More on Virtue Ethics
• More on the Prisoner's Dilemma
• More on Social Contract Theory: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Rawls
• More on the "Original Position"
• More on Contractarianism
• More on Moral Reasoning
• More on Value Pluralism
• More on Moral Relativism
• SINGER'S "FAMINE, AFFLUENCE, AND MORALITY" Online (Brandeis Access Only).
• "THE SINGER SOLUTION TO WORLD POVERTY"
• Peter Singer Page
• Peter Singer Address on "Global Ethics"
• World Hunger Resources from Ethics Updates
• Hugh LaFollette and Larry May, "Suffer the Little Children" in World Hunger and Morality
  ed. William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1996
• Garrett Hardin, "Life Boat Ethics The Case Against Helping the Poor"Psychology Today
  September 1974, pp.38-43, 124-126.
• William Aiken, "The 'Carrying Capacity' Equivocation: A Reply to Garrett Hardin," Social Theory and Practice, v.6(1), Spring 1980, pp.1-11.
• A Visual Display from Paris "Six Billion Human Beings
• Charles Mann, "How Many Is Too Many?", The Atlantic Monthly, February 1993
• Mark Sagoff, "Do We Consume Too Much?" The Atlantic Monthly, June 1997 Bill McKibben, "A Special Moment in History," The Atlantic Monthly, May 1998
• Amartya Sen, "Population: Delusion and Reality,"September 22, 1994
  from his lecture before the United Nations on April 18, 1994
• Amartya Sen, "Public Action to Remedy Hunger," The Tanco Memorial Lecture, August 2, 1990. London.
• Amartya Sen, "Hunger: Old Torments and New Blunders," The Little Magazine,Volume 2.