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    • Readings for Lecture 1: What Is Philosophy?

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      The classic Plato essay on the apology of Socrates. The essay is a great primer to the basic ideas of practicing philosophical thought.

    • Slides and Literature for Lectures 1 & 2

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    • Readings for Lectures 3 & 4

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      A great introduction to the dual processing theories of cognition by one of the leading theorists in the field.

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      One of the more debated and contested arguments in the philosophy of the mind by two prominent present day philosophers.

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      Younger Wittgenstein's main work on language, logic and how to practice philosophy.

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      Nagel's exploration of some central questions in the philosophy of the mind.
    • Slides and Literature for Lecture 3

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    • Slides and Literature for Lecture 4

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    • Readings for Lectures 5 & 6

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      A ground-shaking paper from the lesser known Harvard pragmatist C.I. Lewis.

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      One of the "big three" in American pragmatism, William James outlines here the cornerstones of the philosophical school of thought.

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      Kant's preamble to his main work, Critique of Pure Reason, the latter which single-handedly redefined the Western tradition of philosophical thinking.

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      Aristotle's classic text that is the foundation of much of later epistemological and metaphysical thinking.

    • Slides and Literature for Lecture 5


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    • Slides and Literature for Lecture 6


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    • Readings for Lecture 7: Question everything?


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      Donald Davidson's insightful paper challenging some of the ideas concerning conceptual schemes and introducing his important principle of charity.

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      First chapter of Thomas Kuhn's classic and groundbreaking analysis of scientific progress.

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      A classic Sherlock Holmes short story. Holmes is a great archetype of the scientific method in how he employs logic and empirical evidence to draw very powerful inferences.

    • Slides and Literature for Lecture 7

    • Slides and Literature for Lecture 8

    • Readings for Lecture 9

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      The epilogue to Arendt's famous work, subtitled "A Report on the Banality of Evil", discussing morality, ethics and law.

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      The second chapter from Aristotle's classic work on ethics where he defines virtue.

    • Slides and Literature for Lecture 9

    • Readings for Lecture 10

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      The beginning of Aristotle's classic work on poetics.

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      The first chapter of Dewey's seminal pragmatic approach to art and aesthetics.

    • Slides and Literature for Lecture 10

    • Slides for Lecture 11

    • Readings for Lecture 12

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      An intriguing and often-cited study on the effect of strong positive or negative life events on happiness.

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      An important empirical research on the connection of well-being to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, with some quite ground-shaking results.

    • Slides and Literature for Lecture 12

    • Readings for Lecture 13

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      An insightful piece on the relationship between well-being and productivity.

    • Slides and Literature for Lecture 13

    • Readings for Lecture 14

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      An excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki's seminal book on zen.

    • Slides & Literature for Lecture 14