Friday, October 7, 2011

Group Presentation Research

Here are some helpful starter links on your topics for your group presentations. I don't expect you to read them all, but you should at least browse them to see what you might be interested in specifically regarding your topic. 

Team Philosophy of Mind
[dualism: intermediate, advanced] [identity theory] [functionalism: intro, advanced] [consciousness: lengthy overview, intermediate, advanced] [what's it like to be a bat?] [zombies!] [panpsychism?] [why are most scientists physicalists? (audio)] [the extended mind] [more topics] 

Team Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics
[beginner] [intermediate] [defining art] [judging art] [music] [conceptual art] [philosophers' views on art]


Team Personal Identity
[intermediate] [advanced] [summary of "A Dialogue on Personal Identity & Immortality"] [identity in general] [Ship of Theseus] [personal identity & ethics] [cool video] 

Pascal's Wager
[beginner (plus lots of links)] [intermediate] [advanced] [fun links] 

Team Faith and Reason
[intermediate] [nonevidentialism] [evidentialism: intermediate, advanced] ["Believing Without Evidence"] ["The Ethics of Belief"] ["The Will to Believe"] [Flew, Hare (reply), & Mitchell (summary)] [lots of links] 

Team Meaning of Life
[intermediate] [religion links] [Camus's "Myth of Sisyphus"] [Nagel's "The Absurd"] ["Love and Death"] [42?] 

Team Rationalism vs. Empiricism
[advanced] [Chomsky's "Poverty of the Stimulus" argument for rationalism] [Pinker for rationalism] [counterexample to Chomsky? (more) (rationalist responses)] [Chomsky's mistake (video dialogue)] 

Team Pragmatism
[intermediate] [advanced] [other theories of truth] ["Believing Without Evidence"] [William James] [James's "The Will to Believe"] [criticism: "The Ethics of Belief"] [John Dewey] [Charles Sanders Pierce] [pragmatist feminism] [Richard Rorty]

It's like the squirt bottle we use with the cat.

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