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- [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
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- "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
- 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
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Nigel Warburton's reading list if you are interested in philosophy and look to gain understanding twitter.com/philosophybite… links to 41 philosophy interviews
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John Kaag's 5 books on American philosophy... & Rob Talisse's on pragmatism
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5 books on everyday living
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Sarah Bakewell recommends 5 books on Existentialism
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5 books on Evolution & cooperation
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5 books on Morality Without God (Mary Warnock)
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5 books on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence
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5 books on Voltaire
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5 books on the brain
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5 books on consciousness (Sue Blackmore)
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5 books on time and mind
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5 books on time and eternity
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5 most frequently recommended books (HINT: #1 is a great philosopher of liberty)
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Alain de Botton recommends the best books of illuminating essays
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5 books on world philosophy... on cosmology
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*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
- 400+ philosophy resources arranged by topic
- 44 Essential Films for the Student of Philosophy
- 47 animated videos explain the history of ideas, from Aristotle to Sartre (Open Culture)
- 5-word life philosophies
- 50 space-based must-reads
- 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
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
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