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Core Curriculum – Moral and Philosophical Reasoning

The next core curriculum on the list is moral and philosophical reasoning.  You do not need to be a  Socrates or Nietzsche  to fulfill this requirement.  You only need to be taking PHIL 115 Philosophy of the Human Person and check out some of the resources below.  The course is described as:

An examination of fundamental conceptions of the human person in ancient, medieval and modern philosophy. Possible topics include: the existence and immortality of the human soul, free will and determinism, the immateriality of the intellect, the relationship between mind and body, and the relevance of different conceptions of the human person for ethics and religion. Attention is given to relevant issues of human diversity. The development of logical and critical thinking receives special attention.

The Gale Virtual Reference Library has a really good, basic Encyclopedia of Philosophy that gives just enough information without making your head swim.  As always, if you’re looking for more info, go to a complete list of philosophy resources. Or check out a research guide.

September 12, 2012 by
Database Highlights & Trials

Telos Project – Philosophy

Hopefully you’ll stop by the library today at noon to hear Dr.  Gary Atkinson speak as part of the Telos Project.  Dr.  Atkinson is a philosophy professor.  Here are just a few of the many, many resources we have for philosophy:

I searched marxism in both resources and got over 2 dozen results ranging from Marxist Philosophy to Marxist Thought in Latin America to Feminist political philosophy: 4 Marxist and socialist feminism. While both of these cover philosophy and all of its related fields with lengthy, in-depth articles, the Gale encyclopedia is downloadable as an mp3 file, so you can listen to it instead of read it.

This resource is a goldmine for background information!  For philosophy alone it’s got all these titles:

  • A Companion to Aestheticsbro
  • The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics
  • A Companion to Aesthetics: Second Edition
  • A Companion to African-American Philosophy
  • A Companion to African Philosophy
  • The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy
  • A Companion to Analytic Philosophy
  • A Companion to Ancient Philosophy
  • The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy
  • A Companion to Applied Ethics
  • A Companion to Bioethics
  • A Companion to Bioethics: Second Edition
  • A Companion to Business Ethics
  • The Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics
  • The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics
  • A Companion to Cognitive Science
  • The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness
  • A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy
  • A Companion to Continental Philosophy
  • The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy
  • A Companion to Descartes
  • A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
  • A Companion to Environmental Philosophy
  • A Companion to Epistemology
  • The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology
  • A Companion to Epistemology: Second Edition
  • The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory
  • A Companion to Feminist Philosophy
  • The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy
  • A Companion to Genethics
  • A Hegel Dictionary
  • A Companion to Heidegger
  • A Heidegger Dictionary
  • A Hobbes Dictionary
  • A Companion to Hume
  • A Companion to Kant
  • A Kant Dictionary
  • A Companion to Latin American Philosophy
  • The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics
  • A Companion to Metaphysics
  • The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
  • A Companion to Metaphysics: Second Edition
  • The Blackwell Guide to the Modern Philosophers
  • The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
  • A Companion to Nietzsche
  • A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • A Companion to the Philosophers
  • The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic
  • A Companion to Philosophical Logic
  • The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy
  • A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Action
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
  • The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information
  • The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Education
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Language
  • The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language
  • A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
  • The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind
  • The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind
  • A Companion to Philosophy of Religion
  • The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion
  • The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Science
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology
  • The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  • A Companion to Plato
  • A Companion to Pragmatism
  • A Companion to Rationalism
  • The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics
  • Science and Religion in Dialogue
  • The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy
  • The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy
  • A Wittgenstein Dictionary
  • A Companion to World Philosophies

I wasn’t going to list them all cuz it’s kinda overkill, but then I saw the list and was impressed.  Maybe e-thumb through one of these before Dr. Atkinson’s presentation and come up with a super impressive question to ask him.

December 8, 2011 by