Philosophy 110: Introduction to Philosophy
Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.
Hamilton College, Fall 2007
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Anselm
Aquinas
Descartes
Berkeley
Wittgenstein
Carnap
Cartwright
Lewis
Armstrong
Aristotle
Smart
Turing
Pylyshyn
Dworkin
Nozick
Hobbes
Kant
Hume
Locke
Moore
Harman
Hempel
Goodman
Russell
Parfit
Skinner
Fodor
Searle
Mackie
Mill
O'Neill
Rawls
Course Material
Additional Readings and Handouts
Links to Sites I Recommend for This Course
Leibniz on the best of all possible worlds
Voltaire's Poem on the Lisbon Disaster
The Happy Isles; Nietzsche's Happy Isles
Are we living in a computer simulation?
Evolution vs Intelligent Design, from Natural History
An Amusing Take on Intelligent Design, from the New Yorker
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Locke's Essay; Check out Chapter 1 of Book 2, especially.
Berkeley's introduction to the Principles
Non-veridical ideas of primary qualities, examples
The Standard Meter and a nice History of Measurement
Mondrian's landscapes, which we mentioned in discussing the role of use in meaning.
Probability axioms and inductive reasoning
Le Malade Imaginaire by Molière, which includes the 'dormitive virtue' comment in Latin
Some neat animations illustrating Galileo's work
Descartes's Principles of Philosophy
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
An astounding bibliography for contemporary philosophy of mind, from David Chalmers
Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument and some supporting selections from the Philosophical Investigations that I organized for another course.
Locke's inverted spectrum, BookII, Chapter 32, Section 15.
Check out Alice, an artificial intelligence
Peter Singer, utilitarian, defending animal rights on the Colbert Report
Other Philosophy Links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Philosophy Research Network, home to philosophy papers in progress
A list of journals and conferences appropriate for undergraduates
Thoughts, Arguments and Rants, a Philosophy Blog
The American Philosophical Association
Guide to Philosophy on the Net (Lots of links, many are broken)
Fun
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy