ADDITIONAL SOURCES FOR PHILOSOPHY 1
(these sources are meant to correlate with sections of the text
and will be added to as the course develops)


PLATO

online texts for Plato's Apology and Crito

background on Socrates

I.F. Stone on the guilt of Socrates


Plato's "royal lie"
GOD

Teleological arguments
THE MIND

The "brain in a vat" argument

Dennett's article plus a summary

More about Dennett's view of consciousness

Notes on Parfit: Bundles Without Selves

Australian philosophers (including Armstrong and Chalmers) on the mind-body problem

Discussion of Thomas Nagel
 FREEDOM  
   
                
  Compatibilism

Discussion of Mill's reasoning about free speech

Marcuse on "repressive tolerance"

Sartre (with additional links)

Socrates on virtue as knowledge

The Matrix and Plato's parable of the cave
KNOWLEDGE

The "brain in a vat" argument

Descartes: Meditation 1

Descartes: Meditation 2

Important Arguments from Descartes' Meditations

Ryle's view of a "category mistake"

Ryles' behaviorism

Damasio on Descartes (Dennett review)


A review of Huemer's book Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
ETHICS




What a professor looks for in your paper (1)
What a professor looks for in your paper (2)
Some special notes of my own

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