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- Select activity Readings for Lecture 1: What Is Philosophy?
  
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- Select activity Plato: The Apology of Socrates
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  Plato: The Apology of Socrates File PDF
  
  The classic Plato essay on the apology of Socrates. The essay is a great primer to the basic ideas of practicing philosophical thought.
- Select activity Pre-Reading Reflection: Plato: The Apology of Socrates
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  Pre-Reading Reflection: Plato: The Apology of Socrates Quiz
  
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- Select activity Slides and Literature for Lectures 1 & 2
  
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- Select activity Lecture 1 – Slides
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  Lecture 1 – Slides File
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  Lecture 2 – Slides File PDF
- Select activity Lecture 1 & 2 – Literature
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- Select activity Readings for Lecture 3
  
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- Select activity Jonathan Evans: In two minds: dual-processing accounts of reasoning
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  Jonathan Evans: In two minds: dual-processing accounts of reasoning File PDF
  
  A great introduction to the dual processing theories of cognition by one of the leading theorists in the field.
- Select activity Andy Clark & David Chalmers: The Extended Mind
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  Andy Clark & David Chalmers: The Extended Mind File PDF
  
  One of the more debated and contested arguments in the philosophy of the mind by two prominent present day philosophers.
- Select activity Pre-reading Reflection: Jonathan Evans: In two minds: dual-processing accounts of reasoning AND Andy Clark & David Chalmers: The Extended Mind
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  Pre-reading Reflection: Jonathan Evans: In two minds: dual-processing accounts of reasoning AND Andy Clark & David Chalmers: The Extended Mind Quiz
  
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- Select activity Readings for Lecture 4
  
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- Select activity Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus 5.6–7
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  Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus 5.6–7 File PDF
  
  Younger Wittgenstein's main work on language, logic and how to practice philosophy.
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  Pre-reading Reflection: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus 5.6–7 Quiz
  
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- Select activity Slides and Literature for Lecture 3 & 4
  
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- Select activity Lecture 3 – Literature
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- Select activity Lecture 3 – Slides
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  Lecture 3 – Slides File
- Select activity Lecture 4 – Slides
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  Lecture 4 – Slides File
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- Select activity Readings for Lectures 5 & 6
  
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- Select activity Lewis - A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori
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  Lewis - A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori File PDF
  
  A ground-shaking paper from the lesser known Harvard pragmatist C.I. Lewis.
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  Pre-Reading Reflection: Lewis - A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori Quiz
  
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- Select activity James - Pragmatism (ch. 2)
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  James - Pragmatism (ch. 2) File PDF
  
  One of the "big three" in American pragmatism, William James outlines here the cornerstones of the philosophical school of thought.
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  Pre-Reading Reflection: James - Pragmatism (ch.2) Quiz
  
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- Select activity (optional) Kant - Prolegomena (in part)
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  (optional) Kant - Prolegomena (in part) File PDF
  
  Kant's preamble to his main work, Critique of Pure Reason, the latter which single-handedly redefined the Western tradition of philosophical thinking.
- Select activity (optional) Aristotle: Categories
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  (optional) Aristotle: Categories File PDF
  
  Aristotle's classic text that is the foundation of much of later epistemological and metaphysical thinking.
- Select activity Slides and Literature for Lecture 5
  
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  Lecture 6 – Slides File
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- Select activity Readings for Lecture 7: Question everything?
  
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- Select activity Davidson – On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
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  Davidson – On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme File PDF
  
  Donald Davidson's insightful paper challenging some of the ideas concerning conceptual schemes and introducing his important principle of charity.
- Select activity Pre-Reading Reflection (for Wed): Davidson - On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
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  Pre-Reading Reflection (for Wed): Davidson - On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme Quiz
  
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- Select activity Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (ch. 1)
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  Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (ch. 1) File PDF
  
  First chapter of Thomas Kuhn's classic and groundbreaking analysis of scientific progress.
- Select activity Pre-Reading Reflection (for Fri): Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (ch. 1)
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  Pre-Reading Reflection (for Fri): Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (ch. 1) Quiz
  
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- Select activity (optional) Doyle – Copper Beeches
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  (optional) Doyle – Copper Beeches File PDF
  
  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.
- Select activity Slides and Literature for Lecture 7
  
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  Lecture 8 – Slides File PDF
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- Select activity Readings for Lecture 9
  
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- Select activity Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem (Epilogue)
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  Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem (Epilogue) File PDF
  
  The epilogue to Arendt's famous work, subtitled "A Report on the Banality of Evil", discussing morality, ethics and law.
- Select activity Pre-Reading Reflection (for Wed): Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem (Epilogue)
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  Pre-Reading Reflection (for Wed): Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem (Epilogue) Quiz
  
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- Select activity (optional) Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book II
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  (optional) Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book II File PDF
  
  The second chapter from Aristotle's classic work on ethics where he defines virtue.
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- Select activity John Dewey – Art as Experience (ch. 1)
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  John Dewey – Art as Experience (ch. 1) File PDF
  
  The first chapter of Dewey's seminal pragmatic approach to art and aesthetics.
- Select activity Pre-Reading Reflection (for Fri): John Dewey – Art as Experience (ch. 1)
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  Pre-Reading Reflection (for Fri): John Dewey – Art as Experience (ch. 1) Quiz
  
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- Select activity (optional) Aristotle – Poetics (I–XI)
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  (optional) Aristotle – Poetics (I–XI) File PDF
  
  The beginning of Aristotle's classic work on poetics.
- Select activity Slides and Literature for Lecture 9
  
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- Select activity Readings for Lecture 11
  
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- Select activity Brickman, Coates & Janoff-Bulman - Lottery Winners and Accident Victims - Is Happiness Relative?
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  Brickman, Coates & Janoff-Bulman - Lottery Winners and Accident Victims - Is Happiness Relative? File
  
  An intriguing and often-cited study on the effect of strong positive or negative life events on happiness.
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  Pre-Reading Reflection: Brickman et al. Is Happiness Relative? Quiz
  
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- Select activity Niemiec, Ryan & Deci 2008
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  Niemiec, Ryan & Deci 2008 File PDF
  
  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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  Pre-Reading Reflection: Niemiec, Ryan & Deci 2008 Quiz
  
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- Select activity Slides for Lecture 11
  
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  Lecture 12 – Slides File
- Select activity Lectures 11 & 12 – Literature
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- Select activity Value Exploration Exercise
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  Value Exploration Exercise File PDF
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- Select activity Heskett et al. – Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work
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  Heskett et al. – Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work File PDF
  
  An insightful piece on the relationship between well-being and productivity.
- Select activity Pre-Reading Reflection: Heskett et al. (for the 26.10. session)
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  Pre-Reading Reflection: Heskett et al. (for the 26.10. session) Quiz
  
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- Select activity Suzuki – Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (in part)
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  Suzuki – Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (in part) File PDF
  
  An excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki's seminal book on zen.
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  Pre-Reading Reflection: Suzuki (for the 4.11. session) Quiz
  
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