TU-E6010 - Philosophy D, Lecture, 15.9.2021-10.12.2021
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Topic outline
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An insightful piece on the relationship between well-being and productivity.
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An excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki's seminal book on zen.
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