Helpful Links to Resources

On this page I have tried to assemble some helpful weblinks that may assist you in finding out more about the various authors/ideas we read in class. Please feel free to browse these links and if you find a page helpful not located here, let me know.


Values Analysis
links for the core curriculum GP21 course.


Confucius

First, you can find an online version of  Confucius's Analects -- and you can click here and also here for a commentary on the work itself. Also here is a brief site that goes through some of the key Confucian concepts




Kant's Ethics

Two glossaries of Kantian terminology can be found by clicking  here and here. If Kant is frustrating you, see cartoon.  

Click here to see a pretty good set of lecture notes from a professor at UC Davis on Kant, and click here to be brought to the Stanford online encyclopedia's entry on Kant.




Feminist Theory

links for the 2005 honors course in philosophy and religion.
Pay Equity Gaps -- focuses on researching the question of the pay equity gap between women and men in the workplace.

Ladies Against Feminism -- a very interesting website run by a number of women who are, well, against feminism. Many interesting pieces here to showcase and get a feel for the content underlying the current cultural backlash against feminism in general. Well designed site.

What is Feminism? -- good handout/explanation by a professor at U of Colorado.

Equity Feminism -- site dedicated to the advancement of traditional "right" equity feminism, and against what is considered "left" gender feminism.

The Domain of Patriarchy -- against feminism, I guess the name of the site says it all.

Feminism.com -- a general portal organized around the issue of feminism.

The Charlotte Gilman Society -- dedicated to the life and works of Gilman.


The Self and Free Will
links for the special topics course fulfilling the "20th century analytic" category in
 the philosophy department's distribution requirements

Thinking and Willing
Maybe the whole idea that your "thoughts" and "desires" and "volitions" are really just physical processes (caused by antecedent conditions and natural laws) bugs you. Maybe you just can't figure out how it could be the case. This article is pretty good at explaining how it works. "Principle 1" and "Principle 3" are the only ones that are relevant directly. 

Quantum Libertarianism
As you know (and much to my chagrin), quantum libertarianism isn't dead.  This piece is short, and very easy to read. Pay close attention to the last page. What this guy has to say about "quantum evolution" seems so looney it's almost funny. 

On-Line Review of Determinism
This site actually is pretty decent. They give a nice review of why determinism exists as a theory, and they give a nice explanation for why some predictions are impossible in principle, even though still determined.

Stace and Compatibilism
Some professor at Southern Illinois University has a webpage summarizing some of Stace's article. Decent review, but short. 

Dennett's Elbow Room
A site by someone trying to lay out, in brief, what Dennett is up to in this book. Not bad. 

The Implicit Association Test
Here you will find a couple of on-line experiments like the one we did in class. The topics, last time I looked, were "Race", "Gender", "Age", and "Political Orientation". Give em' a try. Find out what you really think about these various topics. Just how well do you think you know your own mind?

Existentialism
links for the 2004 honors course in philosophy and religion
Existentialism in General
This is a link toa site that might be helpful, seems fairly comprehensive, though I can't vouch for the creator of the site and here's a decent introduction to the basic idea of existentialism (mostly adapted from Sartre) from someone at St. Anselm college.

Kierkegaard
A pretty comprehensive site with a very detailed list of further links to investigate Soren entitled "Kierkegaard on the Internet" can be found here, and if you click here you'll be brought to a shortcut to the Stanford online encyclopedia of philosophy's piece on SK.







The picture pretty much says it; Dr. Storm's (from CUNY) very, very
extensive and very well-known website containing his commentary on just about every single thing SK every wrote.

Nietzsche



Clicking here will shortcut you to the Stanford online encyclopedia entry for FN. Also, clicking here will bring you to a site with online versions of most of FN's writings, and a whole list of articles discussing his work (I have not read these, and so cannot vouch for their quality).

Philosophy Reference and Search Engines

The Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This, over the years, has actually turned out to be a remarkable resource -- the encyclopedia entries are peer-reviewed and written, in pretty much every instance, by leading people in the field today.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
An okay resource, nowhere near as good or as complete as the Stanford one.

The Guide is a comprehensive collection of philosophy resources on the internet and it is continually updated.  There's tons of links here the best philosophy link collection I've seen.


History of Modern Philosophy
links for the philosophy department required course, offered every two years.

Click here to find the Meditations online and click here to shortcut to the Stanford Encyclopedia entry for Cartesian epistemology.





Bruce Haupti presents a good overview of the key concepts in Leibniz here and here for a link to his handout on the Discourse on Metaphysics.






A very substatial commentary on John Locke and his work can be found here at the Stanford online encyclopedia. Good stuff!




Here's a link to the Three Dialogues online.

Rationalism and Its Followers
This site has a brief description of the philosophy of rationalism, and it introduces each of the rationalists (one of which is Descartes). It gives a brief synopsis of what each philosopher thought. It also has some links.