Philosophy 427: Intuitions and Philosophy
Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.
Hamilton College, Fall 2009
Descartes
Locke
Hume
Wittgenstein
Ayer
Sellars
Goodman
Quine
Rawls
Chomsky
Shafir
Weinberg
Nichols
Kripke
Putnam
Woolfolk
Doris
Foley
Course Material
Links to Sites I Recommend for This Course
Papers on Experimental Philosophy
Video of Knobe's research, with Eugene Mirman
Readings on the ontological argument
Harrison Bergeron: the story; the movie
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
My friend Dan Farnham, on Agent Causation
Alison Gopnik and Smart Kids; Young Philosophers
Lewis Carroll, "What the Tortoise Said To Achilles"
Profile of Ramachandran, "The Marco Polo of Neuroscience"
Milgram Experiment, Reproduced
Other Philosophy Links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Philosophy Research Network, home to philosophy papers in progress
The Science of Scientific Writing
Eddie Yeghiayan's Philosophy Bibliographies
A list of journals and conferences appropriate for undergraduates
Eudaimonia, the Georgetown undergraduate journal
Brian Leiter's Philosophy Blog
Thoughts, Arguments and Rants, Brian Weatherson's Philosophy Blog
The American Philosophical Association
The BBC's In Our Time Radio Show, including a philosophy quiz
TED, a Collection of Interesting Videos
Fun
Harsh Reviews; I would have added Section 11 of Kripke's article on substitutional quantification
Philosophy and Settlers, T-Shirts and more!
From, "What Philosophy Majors Do After College"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy
The Gutless Meanies, with guest stars, Minstrel!
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Stich
Nisbett
Frankfurt
Appiah
Nahmias
Nadelhoffer
Knobe
Horowitz
Gopnik
Schwitzgebel
Cummins
Bealer
Kornblith
Prinz
DePaul
Sosa
Machery
Mallon