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The big picture

Maybe just stick to the bigger picture, not the biggest.

Knowledge outpaces wisdom

Especially the things people "know that just ain't so" (Mark Twain?)...

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov pic.twitter.com/xbN5NUyNro

— Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) May 28, 2020

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• Hume on Free Will (Paul Russell) [REVISED: May 27, 2020]
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• Henri Bergson (Leonard Lawlor and Valentine Moulard Leonard) [REVISED: May 27, 2020]
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• Bertrand Russell (Andrew David Irvine) [REVISED: May 27, 2020]
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• Spinoza’s Psychological Theory (Michael LeBuffe) [REVISED: May 26, 2020]
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• Race (Michael James and Adam Burgos) [REVISED: May 25, 2020]
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• Edmund Burke (Ian Harris) [REVISED: May 24, 2020]
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• Wilhelm Windelband (Katherina Kinzel) [NEW: May 18, 2020]
• Multiple Realizability (John Bickle) [REVISED: May 18, 2020]
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• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (Andrew Bowie) [REVISED: May 18, 2020]
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• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Brian Copenhaver) [REVISED: May 15, 2020]
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• Communitarianism (Daniel Bell) [REVISED: May 15, 2020]
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• Intuitionism in Ethics (Philip Stratton-Lake) [REVISED: May 15, 2020]
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• Collapse Theories (Giancarlo Ghirardi and Angelo Bassi) [REVISED: May 15, 2020]
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• History of the Ontology of Art (Paisley Livingston) [REVISED: May 14, 2020]
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• Self-Consciousness (Joel Smith) [REVISED: May 12, 2020]
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• al-Ghazali (Frank Griffel) [REVISED: May 8, 2020]
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• Philosophy of Immunology (Bartlomiej Swiatczak and Alfred I. Tauber) [REVISED: May 7, 2020]
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• Intensional Transitive Verbs (Graeme Forbes) [REVISED: May 7, 2020]
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• A Priori Justification and Knowledge (Bruce Russell) [REVISED: May 6, 2020]
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• Touch (Matthew Fulkerson) [REVISED: May 6, 2020]
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• Temporal Parts (Katherine Hawley) [REVISED: May 5, 2020]
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• Rudolf Carnap (Hannes Leitgeb and André Carus) [REVISED: May 5, 2020]
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• Existence (Michael Nelson) [REVISED: May 5, 2020]
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• International Distributive Justice (Michael Blake and Patrick Taylor Smith) [REVISED: May 4, 2020]
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• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (Vincent C. Müller) [NEW: April 30, 2020]
• Homosexuality (Brent Pickett) [REVISED: April 28, 2020]
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• Methodological Individualism (Joseph Heath) [REVISED: April 27, 2020]
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• al-Farabi’s Psychology and Epistemology (Luis Xavier López-Farjeat) [REVISED: April 26, 2020]
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• Scottish Philosophy in the 19th Century (Gordon Graham) [REVISED: April 24, 2020]
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• Recursive Functions (Walter Dean) [NEW: April 23, 2020]
• Hume’s Newtonianism and Anti-Newtonianism (Eric Schliesser and Tamás Demeter) [REVISED: April 21, 2020]
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• The Role of Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics (Guido Bacciagaluppi) [REVISED: April 21, 2020]
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• Hume’s Aesthetics (Theodore Gracyk) [REVISED: April 21, 2020]
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• Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics (Alan Baker) [REVISED: April 21, 2020]
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• Justification Logic (Sergei Artemov and Melvin Fitting) [REVISED: April 20, 2020]
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• Discrimination (Andrew Altman) [REVISED: April 20, 2020]
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• Baruch Spinoza (Steven Nadler) [REVISED: April 16, 2020]
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• Quantum Approaches to Consciousness (Harald Atmanspacher) [REVISED: April 16, 2020]
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• Roger Bacon (Jeremiah Hackett) [REVISED: April 15, 2020]
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• Ancient Logic (Susanne Bobzien) [REVISED: April 15, 2020]
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• Space and Time: Inertial Frames (Robert DiSalle) [REVISED: April 15, 2020]
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• Imaginative Resistance (Emine Hande Tuna) [NEW: April 13, 2020]
• Epistemology (Matthias Steup and Ram Neta) [REVISED: April 11, 2020]
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• Reism (Jan Woleński) [REVISED: April 10, 2020]
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• Sounds (Roberto Casati, Jerome Dokic, and Elvira Di Bona) [REVISED: April 10, 2020]
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• Philosophy of Biomedicine (Sean Valles) [NEW: April 9, 2020]
• Empedocles (K. Scarlett Kingsley and Richard Parry) [REVISED: April 7, 2020]
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• Auditory Perception (Casey O'Callaghan) [REVISED: April 7, 2020]
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• John M. E. McTaggart (Kris McDaniel) [REVISED: April 7, 2020]
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• Events (Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi) [REVISED: April 3, 2020]
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• Medieval Theories of Obligationes (Paul Vincent Spade and Mikko Yrjönsuuri) [REVISED: April 3, 2020]
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• Fallacies (Hans Hansen) [REVISED: April 2, 2020]
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• Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems (Panu Raatikainen) [REVISED: April 2, 2020]
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• Vienna Circle (Thomas Uebel) [REVISED: April 1, 2020]
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• Confucius (Mark Csikszentmihalyi) [NEW: March 31, 2020]
• Philosophy in Chile (Ivan Jaksic) [REVISED: March 31, 2020]
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• Francisco Sanches (Rolando Pérez) [NEW: March 31, 2020]
• Medieval Theories of Future Contingents (Simo Knuuttila) [REVISED: March 31, 2020]
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• Naturalism (David Papineau) [REVISED: March 31, 2020]
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• Nonconceptual Mental Content (José Bermúdez and Arnon Cahen) [REVISED: March 30, 2020]
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• Simone de Beauvoir (Debra Bergoffen and Megan Burke) [REVISED: March 27, 2020]
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• Episteme and Techne (Richard Parry) [REVISED: March 27, 2020]
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• Ibn Sina’s Metaphysics (Olga Lizzini) [REVISED: March 26, 2020]
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• Form vs. Matter (Thomas Ainsworth) [REVISED: March 25, 2020]
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• Territorial Rights and Territorial Justice (Margaret Moore) [NEW: March 24, 2020]
• Ayn Rand (Neera K. Badhwar and Roderick T. Long) [REVISED: March 23, 2020]
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• The Ethics of Manipulation (Robert Noggle) [REVISED: March 22, 2020]
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• Property and Ownership (Jeremy Waldron) [REVISED: March 21, 2020]
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• Song-Ming Confucianism (Justin Tiwald) [NEW: March 19, 2020]
• Edith Stein (Thomas Szanto and Dermot Moran) [NEW: March 18, 2020]
• Tibetan Epistemology and Philosophy of Language (Pascale Hugon) [REVISED: March 18, 2020]
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• Concepts of Disease and Health (Dominic Murphy) [REVISED: March 18, 2020]
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• Hermann Cohen (Scott Edgar) [REVISED: March 17, 2020]
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• Computational Philosophy (Patrick Grim and Daniel Singer) [NEW: March 16, 2020]
• Naturalism in Epistemology (Patrick Rysiew) [REVISED: March 16, 2020]
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• Feminist Perspectives on Globalization (Serena Parekh and Shelley Wilcox) [REVISED: March 12, 2020]
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• Modal Fictionalism (Daniel Nolan) [REVISED: March 10, 2020]
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• Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness (Larry M. Jorgensen) [REVISED: March 6, 2020]
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• Johann Sturm (Andrea Sangiacomo and Christian Henkel) [NEW: March 5, 2020]
• Psychologism (Martin Kusch) [REVISED: February 27, 2020]
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• Nietzsche’s Moral and Political Philosophy (Brian Leiter) [REVISED: February 27, 2020]
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• Hegel’s Aesthetics (Stephen Houlgate) [REVISED: February 27, 2020]
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Chronological List of Published Entries

A.J. Ayer

A. J. Ayer is our #philosopherOTM. Explore our recommended reading and free book and journal article Collection on Ayer and his key fields of work here: https://t.co/A2rvX9Z6bJ. #logicalpositivism pic.twitter.com/zowcpZGMDb

— Oxford Philosophy (@OUPPhilosophy) May 4, 2020

Aristotle wins again

Aristotle wins twitter, again. pic.twitter.com/N2JA7OoWTR

— Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) May 27, 2020

Nigel Warburton interviewed

Website: The Philosophers' Magazine
Title: Virtual Philosopher
Description: The website of The Philosophers' Magazine.
Link: https://www.philosophersmag.com/interviews/16-nigel-warburton-virtual-philosopher

Best introductions to philosophy (or some of them)

Philosopher Nigel Warburton (@philosophybites) recommends the best Introductions to Philosophy

The Best Introductions to Philosophy | Five Books Expert Recommendations https://t.co/WpMZTQR8L7

— Anita Leirfall (@anitaleirfall) May 25, 2020

Democracy: What’s It Good For? - The Philosophers' Magazine

https://www.philosophersmag.com/essays/216-democracy-what-s-it-good-for

Phil.Oliver@mtsu.edu

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Tweet from To The Best Of Our Knowledge (@TTBOOK)

To The Best Of Our Knowledge (@TTBOOK) tweeted at 5:49 PM on Sat, May 23, 2020: "When people are in crisis, they tend to ask existential questions — like, why am I here? Where did I come from? Is life worth living? How do I go on in a meaningful way? That might be the silver lining to this pandemic." — Philosopher @JohnKaag https://t.co/EbavQuY1GO (https://twitter.com/TTBOOK/status/1264327542737076226?s=02) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download?s=13

Pandemic philosophy

The current issue of The Philosophers' Magazine features philosophers thinking through the pandemic. Read @katfurman on communities and contagion for free on the tpm website. https://t.co/s3xIMsOwrJ

— TPM (@philosophersmag) May 21, 2020

Philosophy essay | Spinoza: God-intoxicated man - The TLS

Philosophy essay | Spinoza: God-intoxicated man - The TLShttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/god-intoxicated-man-spinoza-philosophy-essay/

Be a web skeptic

"Don't believe everything you read online."
- Diogenes pic.twitter.com/5QMQLxKrah

— Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) May 18, 2020

Bertrand Russell on "a free man's worship"

Bertrand Russell on "a free man's worship"-United with his fellow-men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love. The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instil faith in hours of despair. Let us not weigh in grudging scales their merits and demerits, but let us think only of their need--of the sorrows, the difficulties, perhaps the blindnesses, that make the misery of their lives; let us remember that they are fellow-sufferers in the same darkness, actors in the same tragedy as ourselves. And so, when their day is over, when their good and their evil have become eternal by the immortality of the past, be it ours to feel that, where they suffered, where they failed, no deed of ours was the cause; but wherever a spark of the divine fire kindled in their hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed. Bertrand Russell, A Free Man's Worship... Russell's message to future generations (vid)

William James on the religion of humanity

William James on the "religion of humanity"- Whether a God exist, or whether no God exist... we form at any rate an ethical republic here below. And the first reflection which this leads to is that ethics have as genuine and real a foothold in a universe where the highest consciousness is human, as in a universe where there is a God as well. "The religion of humanity" affords a basis for ethics as well as theism does. William James, The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life

John Dewey

John Dewey on experience, education, secular "faith," and the continuous human community

“What the best and wisest parent wants for his child, that must we want for all the children of the community. Anything less is unlovely, and left unchecked, destroys our democracy.” The School and Society

One of America's greatest philosophers outlines a faith which is not confined to sect, class, or race. Dr. Dewey calls for the emancipation of the true religious quality from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that characterizes historical religions. He describes a positive, practical, and dynamic faith, verified and supported by the intellect and evolving with the progress of social and scientific knowledge. g'r

Natural piety is not of necessity either a fatalistic acquiescence in natural happenings or a romantic idealization of the world. It may rest upon a just sense of nature as the whole of which we are parts, while it also recognizes that we are parts that are marked by intelligence and purpose, having the capacity to strive by their aid to bring conditions into greater consonance with what is humanly desirable. Such piety is an inherent constituent of a just perspective in life...

A [properly] religious attitude needs the sense of a connection of man, in the way of both dependence and support, with the enveloping world that the imagination feels is a universe. Use of the words "God" or "divine" to convey the union of actual with ideal may protect man from a sense of isolation and from consequent despair or defiance.

The things in civilization we most prize are not of ourselves. They exist by grace of the doings and sufferings of the continuous human community in which we are a link. Ours is the responsibility of conserving, transmitting, rectifying and expanding the heritage of values we have received, that those who come after us may receive it more solid and secure, more widely accessible and more generously shared than we have received it. A Common Faith

Story Corps, This I Believe

Story Corps

Here's another final report option: go to the StoryCorps website and read about StoryCorps. Get the StoryCorps app. Use it to record an interview with an older person (grandparent, maybe) you consider wise. Ask them the sorts of questions we've been asking ourselves this semester in CoPhi. Share the result with us, in your final report blog posts, and with posterity.

"This I Believe"

Another final report option: Read and listen to others' "This I Believe" essays, and post your own (as I did-see below), at their website and on ours. I did. (May be time to update this...)

(I believe in) the next 40 years Phil - Nashville, Tennessee Entered on July 20, 2009

I believe that humans have a bright future among the stars. A 12-year old boy might have been excused, on July 20, 1969, for picturing the world of 2009 as far closer to Captain Kirk’s than this. The “space race” had been run and won in a few focused frenetic years, from Sputnik in the […]
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Recommended texts

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RECOMMENDED-

• [ATTN: Buchanan Scholars] Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean... and see "How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit"
• A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy by Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins, and its longer version A Short History of Philosophy
• A Philosophy of Walking by Frederic Gros
• Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
• The Joys of Walking ed. Edwin Mitchell (JW)
• The Stone philosophy blog (NYT)
• The Stone Reader (compilation from the NYT philosophy blog)
• Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader
• Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter(Peter Singer)
• The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Singer)
• America the Philosophical by Carlin Romano
• At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell
• How to Live: Montaigne... (Bakewell)
• How Democracies Die by Levitsky & Ziblatt
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
• Philosophy Bites iPhone app
• Philosophy Bites Back (PB)
• Philosophy: The Basics (P)
• Philosophy: The Classics by Nigel Warburton (book & podcast)
• Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
• Popular Culture & Philosophy Series (and see below)
• Pragmatism: A New Name for an Old Way of Thinking by William James
• The God Dialogues: A Philosophical Journey by Torin Alter & Robert J. Howell
• The Greeks: An Illustrated History by Diane Harris Cline
• The Meaning of Human Existence by EO Wilson
• Very Short Introductions (OUP)
• Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Storyby Jim Holt

• The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

• Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truthby some guys with difficult Greek names

 

Walker Library

2d floor, 191 J23 Ol43 - Springs

More books

• "36 Arguments for the Existence of God: a work of fiction" Cass Seltzer’s (Rebecca Goldstein’s) appendix
• American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia Ed. by Talisse, Lachs
• Breakfast With Socrates “An Extraordinary Philosophical Journey Through Your Ordinary Day”
• Doubt: A History Jennifer Michael Hecht’s romp through the history of doubt, skepticism, atheism, humanism, naturalism…
• Gutenberg Project etexts in the public domain
• In Love With Life
• Last Days of Socrates Usefully annotated and hyperlinked edition of Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
• Pale Blue Dot: a vision of the human future in space Carl Sagan’s spiritual vision of our future. He likes William James’s definition of religion, ” a feeling of being at home in the universe.” But “if we mean the real universe, then we have no true religion yet.”
• Passion for Wisdom
• Pragmatism: a new name for an old way of thinking
• Principles of Psychology (1890)Full text of William James’s classic introduction to the young field he helped to pioneer.
• Simon Critchley's "Book of Dead Philosophers" Lots more fun than it sounds…
• Six Questions of Socrates: A modern-day journey of discovery through world philosophy Chris Phillips goes global in his search for Socrates.
• Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy Chris Phillips’ first book “in search of Socrates” in the contemporary world.
• The Demon-haunted World: science as a candle in the dark Carl Sagan
• The Greatest Show on Earth The evidence for evolution, masterfully assembled by the former Oxford “Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.”
• The Really Hard Problem: meaning in a material world Owen Flanagan says the problem of meaning is soluble without fantasy, and we can be happy. “I recommend joyful optimistic realism. Life can be precious and funny.”
• The Varieties of Religious Experience WJ’s Gifford Lectures
• The Varieties of Scientific Experience Carl Sagan’s Gifford Lectures
• Trials of the Monkey: an accidental memoir Darwin’s descendant (great-great grandson) Matthew Chapman’s memoir, couched in a funny and ultimately sympathetic road trip to Dayton TN for the the Scopes Trial reenactment
• Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder “Spirituality” from atheist Richard Dawkins
• William James's "Springs of Delight" Limited digitized version of a pretty good book…
• William James: in the maelstrom of American Modernism Robert Richardson’s bio of WJ
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• Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche (James Miller)
• Free will & determinism (Blackwell)
• Gutenberg etext project: philosophy bookshelf
• Hume, by Ayer
• Letters of William James vol.1
• Letters of Wm James
• Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (Diogenes Laertius, James Miller)
• Strangers Drowning: Grappling With Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, & the Overpowering Urge to Help
• The Heart of Wm James
• The Life You Can Save (Peter Singer)
• The Philosophical Parent
• William James bio by Richardson
• Writings of William James

Five Books (@five_books)

Nigel Warburton's reading list if you are interested in philosophy and look to gain understanding twitter.com/philosophybite… links to 41 philosophy interviews == John Kaag's 5 books on American philosophy... & Rob Talisse's on pragmatism == 5 books on everyday living == Sarah Bakewell recommends 5 books on Existentialism == 5 books on Evolution & cooperation == 5 books on Morality Without God (Mary Warnock) == 5 books on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence == 5 books on Voltaire == 5 books on the brain -== 5 books on consciousness (Sue Blackmore) == 5 books on time and mind == 5 books on time and eternity == 5 most frequently recommended books (HINT: #1 is a great philosopher of liberty) == Alain de Botton recommends the best books of illuminating essays buff.ly/2ukmkvB pic.twitter.com/gMPrjYTmm1 5 books on world philosophy... on cosmology Five Books (@five_books) 8/12/18, 5:00 AM "Reason may not be as self-sufficiently robust as some had hoped, but it doesn’t have to be ... it has brought us, often kicking and screaming, into our greater collective well-being" Philosopher Rebecca Goldstein ⁦‪@platobooktour‬⁩ reason and its limitations fivebooks.com/best-books/rea… Five Books (@five_books) 8/13/18, 6:38 AM NEW interview: Aristotle, says Edith Hall, is "quite simply the most important intellectual who ever lived." Here the author and classicist selects five key texts to further your understanding of the great philosopher's life and work. fivebooks.com/best-books/ari… Five Books (@five_books) 8/15/18, 11:45 AM "Hobbes is brilliant in two ways. One is his style of writing: he is a phrasemaker with very memorable quotations. There are things I’ve read just once that stuck in my head. He’s also analytically brilliant." Jonathan Wolff on Political Philosophy: fivebooks.com/best-books/jon… Five Books (@five_books) 8/16/18, 1:30 PM Charles Fernyhough (⁦‪@cfernyhough‬⁩) on William James: "probably the most influential psychologist of all time" fivebooks.com/best-books/cha…

*MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

• "A Glorious Accident" (Dennett, Gould, Sacks... roundtable)
• "All right, then, I'll go to hell." Huck Finn
• "College advice I wish I'd taken"
• "Dream of Enlightenment" (NYker)
• "Immediacy and the Future" by Phil Oliver, Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum
• "Pathetic Sartre" (de Beauvoir)
• "Why is there something rather than nothing?" (Sean Carroll)
• "Why is there something rather than nothing?" podcast, Sean Carroll
• "Your Loyalties Are Your Life" (David Brooks on Josiah Royce)
• 10 reasons to be an existentialist (Sarah Bakewell)
• 110 free Philosophy ebooks
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• 44 Essential Films for the Student of Philosophy
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• 5-word life philosophies
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• 8 great questions we may never solve (Gizmodo)
• A.C. Grayling: philosophy should be the core of the curriculum
• A's are overrated
• Abortion & how to talk about it (Shrage, The Stone)
• Advice for new students (from old students)
• Aeon Philosophy
• Altruism-TED Radio Hour
• America the greatest? (transcript)
• America the greatest? Newsroom (YouT)
• American Philosophical Association (APA)
• Ancient Worlds-Bettany Hughes (BBC video)
• Andy Clark's "expanded mind"-thinking isn't all in your head (NYer 4.2.18)
• Animals and the banality of evil
• Animated Philosophy Videos (105) from Wireless Philosophy: A Project Sponsored by Yale, MIT, Duke
• Anti-Epicureans: "Philosophers Who Like Stuff"
• Appiah on the point of college
• Are Americans sacrificing their right to walk? (Aeon)
• Arguing Well (Daniel Cohen at TED)
• Argument Clinic ("I came here for a GOOD argument!"-MPython)
• Aristotle's Way (by Edith Hall, reviewed by John Kaag)
• Arrival ("Story of Your Life" novella by Ted Chiang)
• Artificial intelligence etc.-a post by Graduate Teaching Assistant Jamil Grimes, Nov'18
• Asking the last question (Edge, Brockman)
• Bertrand Russell, Learning from
• Best philosophy books of 2017 (Warburton)
• Bullshit symposium
• Bullshit-Harry Frankfurt, "On Bullshit"
• Campus illiberalism as moral fundamentalism (Fesmire)
• Camus's "The Stranger" reimagined (from an Algerian POV)
• Carl Sagan on origin stories
• Civil Rights Trail
• Coffee philosophy
• Coffee-the fuel of philosophers
• Colin McGinn gives analytic philosophy (and academic thuggery) a bad & sexist name
• Consciousness (ch.18 in "The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity"
• Consciousness doesn't flow, it pulses
• Conversation (face-to-face), the most human and humanizing thing we do (Sherry Turkle)
• Conversation-without it philosophy is just dogma (Warburton, Aeon)
• Cornel West (books by)
• Cosmos (Sagan) full text
• Crash course videos: philosophy
• Creationist Qs & As (Phil Plait)
• CSPAN caller confesses racism to black guest... (WaPo)
• Dan Dennett on criticizing kindly
• Daniel Dennett's Science of the Soul
• Darwin's England: Study Abroad
• David Hume (Simon Blackburn on)
• David Hume and Adam Smith (nyt bk rev)
• David Hume at 300 (Blackburn)
• David Hume-"how he helped me solve my midlife crisis"
• David Hume-a new perspective (rev)
• David Hume's great idea (Atlantic)
• David Hume's humanity (Baggini)
• DavidHume.org
• Deep time (BBC)-beautiful meditation on “the deep past, the long future, the bigger present”...
• Derek Parfit obit nyt
• Derek Parfit recalled lrb
• Diary of a Python
• Diogenes vs. Plato's "featherless biped"
• Donut philosophy
• Early modern texts
• Empathy-how do we increase it? (Kristof, nyt)
• Empirical god-beliefs (Stephen Law)
• Epictetus & how to be a stoic (NYker)
• Epicureans Vs. Stoics
• Episteme links
• Essential works for secondary students
• Ethics animations from Harry Shearer
• Everyday life & philosophy - 5 books
• Evolution - 5 best books
• Evolution-misconceptions
• Existential Comics
• Existentialism in the 21st century (oup)
• Extreme altruists ("Strangers Drowning" rev)
• Famous philosophy majors poster
• Fesmire on campus illiberalism
• Freud the philosopher
• Freud-Why He Survives (Menand)
• Future, op-eds from (nyt)
• Goober the philosopher ("G Makes History"), YouT
• Good Place final season-inside the show’s moral philosophy lessons
• Good Place-how a sitcom made philosophy cool
• Grayling on "ethics/morality" distinction
• Great Lives (BBC4)
• Great Lives (BBC4)-Darwin
• Great Lives (BBC4)-Hobbes
• Great Lives (BBC4)-JS Mill
• Great Lives (BBC4)-Wittgenstein
• Gutenberg etext project: philosophy bookshelf
• Gymansiums of the mind
• Habit-how it gives shape to our inner lives (Mary Oliver)
• Happiness:A Free Person's Worship (Sunday Assembly)
• Hemingway, Thoreau, Jefferson & the value of a long walk
• How everything comes from nothing (Krauss)
• How Philosophy Changes Students' Minds
• How to get the most out of college
• How to live wisely/reflecting on your life
• How will the pandemic change higher education? (Chronicle)
• Hubert Harrison ("Black Socrates")
• Humanities "crisis" based on students' false perceptions
• Humanities not in crisis after all
• I'm Still Here - What it's like to live with a chronic urge to die (HuffPo)
• Identities-who am I? (TED)
• Identity, self, subjectivity: the strange case of Hannah Upp (NYer 4.2.18)
• Identity: TED Talks
• Ignorance 101
• In Praise of William James
• It's later than you think
• John Kaag, "The Philosopher and the Thief," Harpers
• John Kaag, American philosophy podcast
• John Lachs in Berlin
• John Lachs-"Immediacy and the Future"
• John Rawls behind the veil (YouTube, School of Life)
• John Rawls lecturing on the history of political philosophy, Harvard 1984
• Josiah Royce "America's Philosopher"?
• Knowing keeps us free-WaPo SuperBowl ad Feb'19
• Laptops in the classroom-ban 'em?
• Liberal education: why it matters
• Listen
• Lucid dreaming: how to do it
• Machiavelli-Would he vote for Drumpf? (Adamson, Philosophy Now)
• Martha Nussbaum, "Long lives: Should we want them?"
• Martha Nussbaum, Philosopher of Feelings
• Marx yesterday & today (Louis Menand)
• Marx-10 things...
• Michael Pollan, "An Animal's Place"
• Michael Sandel on improving public discourse
• Miracle? Don't believe it. (Aeon)
• Mizzou Philosophy Department
• Montaigne, philosopher of life
• Mother Teresa (Hitchens)
• MTSU Philosophy Department
• Multicultural philosophy (Owen Flanagan, TPM)
• Museum of Tomorrow in Rio (npr)
• Neuroexistentialism (Flanagan & Caruso, TPM)
• Neutral monism (EB)
• Neutral monism (SEP)
• Nietzsche on walking (John Kaag, Hiking w/Nietzsche)
• Nietzsche-2 new books confront
• Nietzsche: "I Am Dynamite"-a new bio
• Nietzsche: Falling Out With Superman (Kamiya)
• Non-platonic relationships (thanks Holly)
• Occam's simplicity challenged
• Olympic spirit: runners help each other after fall
• Open Syllabus Project
• Optimism, knowledge, & the future of enlightenment (RSA)
• Personal identity-the mystery of (Brainpickings)
• Peter Singer on Jeremy Bentham
• Peter Singer on speciesism, optimism etc. (interview in The Stone, May 2015)
• Peter Singer-Melinda Gates (nyt mag)
• Peter Singer's Ethics in the Real World-review nyt
• Philosophical Films
• Philosophical Humour
• Philosophy Around the Web
• Philosophy for kids (SEP)
• Philosophy Now
• Philosophy Podcasts
• Philosophy should be conversation (Nigel W.)
• Philosophy Sites
• Reading Raphael in Hanoi (a Vietnamese student's prizewinning essay on "School of Athens")
• Reality & evolution (Shermer, SciAm)
• Reincarnation (Skeptic's Dictionary)
• Resolutions-how to keep them
• Retrieving Realism (Dreyfus, Taylor)
• Rousseau's continued relevance (Guardian)
• Sagan & Miller-Urey: how did life begin?
• Sagan on our best tool
• Sagan, A Way of Thinking (video)
• Sagan, Cosmos (full text)
• Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (video)
• Sagan's Leakey lecture on origin stories
• Santayana digital archive
• Scopes Trial 2018
• Skepticism, the Sisyphean challenges of: Carol Tavris, Skeptic Salon
• Smartphones, have they destroyed a generation? (Atlantic)
• Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP)
• Space, the case for: Robert Zubrin, Skeptic Salon
• SpaceX launch & landing
• Speak for yourself (Appiah)
• Spinoza, philosopher for our time (Heart & Soul podcast, BBC)
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy mapped
• Stoic emotions, the thorny side of (Pigliucci)
• Stoics-Scott Aikin at Sunday Assembly
• Stop Googling follow-up: Talk to each other (Turkle)
• Stop Googling. Let's Talk. (Sherry Turkle)
• Study free in Germany
• Suicide - 10 things Jennifer Michael Hecht wishes people knew about it
• Suicide - JMH on On Being
• Supernatural nonsense - why do people believe in it?
• Symposium as drinking party
• Teaching evolution in Kentucky (a lot like TN)
• TED Radio Hour
• TED Radio Hour-Wired for Altruism
• TED Talks on Identity
• Thanks/thanksgiving/"thank goodness" (Dennett)
• Thanksgiving
• The Ghost and the Princess (Gottlieb on Descartes)
• The Painted Porch - A Stoic Community Project
• The Philosophers' Magazine
• The Philosophers' Magazine Online
• The Right to Speak (TED radio)
• The School of Life
• The scientist who scrambled Darwin's tree of life
• Thoreau the hypocrite?
• Time (TED)
• Too good to be true: fraudulently researched story on This American Life
• Vanderbilt Philosophy Department
• Wabi Sabi-the Japanese Philosophy of Finding Beauty in Imperfection and Impermanence
• What is it like being a woman in Philosophy?
• What is the point of philosophy? (Tim Crane)
• What Rawls Missed (TNR)
• What Straight-A Students Get Wrong
• What we do when we walk (Gopnik, NYer)
• What's the point of a professor?
• Where am I? (Radiolab)
• Where to invade next (M.Moore)
• Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds (Kolbert)
• Why France requires students to study philosophy
• Why We Collaborate (TED)
• William James (Emory site)
• William James, "The Energies of Men"
• William James, Will to Believe & other essays (including Sentiment of Rat'y, Is Life Worth Living...)
• William James's Cambridge (self-guided tour)
• Women in Philosophy: a reading list
• WritePhilosophy - a resource for students
• Xenophon's Socrates

Historical links: happiness

Abraham Maslow
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Aquinas, Contra Gentiles III
Aristotle
Aristotle's Ethics
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wsdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer, World as Will and Idea
Augustine, The Happy Life
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Buddha
Confucius
David Hume, The Sceptic
Ed Diener
Epicurus
Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus
Epicurus, Principal Doctrines
Friedrich Nietzsche portal
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom (librivox audio)Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions
Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
John Locke
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
Martin Seligman
Michel de Montaigne, Essays
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
Plato, Republic
Seneca, On the Happy Life
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Socrates
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Thomas Jefferson
Viktor Frankl
William James
William James, The Dilemma of Determinism
William James, The Sentiment of Rationality
William James, Will to Believe & other essays