LIST OF PAGES I WROTE
LIST OF PAGES I CITE
Files on this site written by
Sandra LaFave
Absolutism, Absolute Relativism, Relative Relativism
Mythos and Logos World Views
Powerlessness and Integrity
Affluenza
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
The Problem of Evil
Amphibolies
Nietzsche on Race and Sex
Psychological Egoism and Ethical Egoism
Are All Voluntary Acts Selfish?
Non-Consequentialism: Objectives and Readings
Rationalism
Aretaic (Virtue) Ethics: Objectives and Readings
Notes on AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Readings on Media and Consumer Culture
Aristotle's Metaphysics and Psychology
Notes on Braitenberg's Vehicles
Refutation by Logical Analogy
Basic Concepts of Logic
Notes on Dennett's "Where Am I?"
Relativism
Biology and Religious Experience Links
Notes on Descartes'
Meditations
Relativism: Objectives and Readings
Brentano and Frege
Notes on Hume
Review English Grammar, Usage, Spelling
Buddhism and Self
Notes on Hurley's Logic Ch 2.1 and 2.2
Roadmap of Philosophy of Mind
Chronological List of Western Philosophers
Notes on Jackson's "Epiphenomenal Qualia"
Sample Phil 17 Graded Essay Answers
Comparison of Eastern and Western Religions
Notes on Perry's Dialog -- The First Night
Sample Graded Midterm (Ethics)
Compatibility with all states of affairs
Notes on Perry's Dialog -- The Second Night
Sample Graded Paper on Egoism
Consequentialism: Objectives and Readings
Notes on Perry's Dialog -- The Third Night
Sample Graded Paper on Relativism
Cosmological and Teleological Arguments
Notes 1 on Leiber's Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?
Sample Graded Papers
Critical Thinking Checklist
Notes 2 on Leiber's Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?
Sample Phil 17 Midterm 1 Objective Portion
Davidson and Anomalous Monism
Notes on Plato's
Meno
Sample Philosophy 17 Final Exam
Duties to the Less Fortunate
Objectionable vagueness
Sample Syllabus Phil 2 (Intro to Logic)
Egoism: Objectives and Readings
On quibbling
Sample Syllabus Phil 22 (Philosophy of Religion)
Empiricism
Online Resources for Informal Fallacies
Sample Syllabus Phil 3 (Intro to Ethics)
English Quizzes
The Ontological Argument
Sample Syllabus Phil 6 (Philosophy of the Person)
Epistemology and Metaphysics
Open and Closed Concepts and the Continuum Fallacy
Sample Test 1 on Hurley's Logic Chapter 1 (with answers)
Essay error codes
Outline Ch 1 & 2 Schick & Vaughn's
How to Think about Weird Things
Sample Test on Hurley's Logic Chapter 1 (without answers)
Ethics and Gender
Outline Ch 3 Schick & Vaughn's
How to Think about Weird Things
Sample Test 2 on Hurley's Logic Chapter 1 (with answers)
Ethics and Ideology (Notes on Nietzsche and Marx)
Outline Ch 4 Schick & Vaughn's
How to Think about Weird Things
Sample Test on Hurley's Ch 4 and 5 (with answers)
Ethics and Ideology: Objectives and Readings
Outline Ch 5 Schick & Vaughn's
How to Think about Weird Things
Self Test on Definitions
Ethics and Religion
Outline Ch 6 Schick & Vaughn's
How to Think about Weird Things
Self Test on Logic Concepts
Ethics and Religion: Objectives and Readings
Outline Ch 7 Schick & Vaughn's
How to Think about Weird Things
Self Tests on English
Evil and Theodicies
Phil 1 Final Exam Essay Questions
Socrates
Examples of Bad Writing
Phil 17 -- Midterm 3 on Media
Some PreSocratic Philosophers
Fallacies of Composition and Division
Phil 17 Objectives & Readings Part 1 (Phil & Critical Thinking)
Study Guide for English Test
Free Will and Determinism
Phil 17 Objectives & Readings for Part 2 (On Meaning)
Study Guide for Phil 1 (Intro)
Freud on Women
Phil 17 Objectives & Readings for Part 3 (Basic Logic)
Study Guide for Phil 2 (Logic)
General philosophy resources online
Phil 17 Objectives & Readings for Part 4 (Writing Well)
Study Guide for Phil 3 (Ethics)
Glossary for Logic and Critical Reasoning
Phil 17 Objectives & Readings for Part 5 (Fallacies)
Study Guide for Phil 6 (Person)
God and Time
Phil 17 Objectives & Readings for Part 6 (Media)
Study Guide for Phil 17 (Critical Thinking)
How to Write Good
Phil 17 Objectives & Readings for Part 7 (Epistemology)
Study Guide for Phil 22 (Religion)
Introduction to Aristotle
Phil 17 Objectives & Readings for Part 8 (Weird Things)
Notes on Subjectivism
Introduction to Ethics
Phil 17 Sample Graded Midterm 3
Subjectivism: Objectives and Readings
Introduction to Metaethics
Phil 17
Sample Midterm 2 on Fallacies
Summary of Basic Theories of Truth
Is Religious Language Nonsense?
Phil 17 Midterm 1 Essay Questions
Syllabus Phil 1
Kant: The "Copernican Revolution"
Phil 17 Sample graded gapers
Syllabus Phil 17 (Logic & Critical Reasoning)
Kant's Ethics
Phil 17 Self Test on Fallacies
"Thinking Critically About the Subjective-Objective Distinction"
Locke and Berkeley
Phil 17 Self Tests on English
Using Truth Tables
Logical Behaviorism
Phil 22 Midterm 1
Notes on Utilitarianism
"Making Peace with Prozac"
Phil 22 Midterm 2
What Are the Odds? Elementary Probability
Marxist Critique of Consumer Culture
Phil 22 Final Exam
What Is a Person?
Marxist Economics
Phil 3 Final Exam
What is Bad Logic?
Mary Anne Warren on Persons
Phil 6 Final Exam Study Questions
What Is Philosophy?
Metaphysical Views
Physicalism
Why the English Review?
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Plato on soul
Writing a Paper on Egoism
Midterm Exam (Ethics)
Plato's Philosophy a Reply to Glaucon
Writing a Paper on Relativism
Multiculturalism and Philosophy
Phil 1 Quizzes
Aristotle: An Early Empiricist
Straw Man vs Red Herring vs Missing the Point
The Will to Believe and the Leap of Faith
Files on this site cited by Sandra LaFave
"The Chinese Room Argument and Replies to It"
Hubert Dreyfus and Stuart Dreyfus, "From Socrates to Expert Systems"
Peter Singer, "Animal Liberation"
Aristotle, selections from De Anima
Tim Thurman, Introduction to Binary Arithmetic
Plato, Phaedo Stephanos numbers 76e-84
Aristotle, selections from Nichomachean Ethics
Jim Riley, The Problem of Evil
Plato, Phaedrus Stephanos numbers 245-257
Article "Theism, Atheism, and Rationality" by Alvin Plantinga
John Searle, "Is the Brain a Digital Computer?"
Plato, Republic Stephanos numbers 514-521, 427d-445
Carol Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat
John Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs"
Richard Feynman on Science
Carol Cohn, "Sex and death in the rational world of defense intellectuals"
John Taylor Gatto, Against School
Sigmund Freud, "Femininity"
Clotaire Rapaille Interview on Advertising and Reptile Brain
Karen Warren, "Towards an Ecofeminist Peace Politics" and "The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism"
Special Pleading
Daniel Dennett, "Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why"
Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor" ("Estranged Labor")
St. Cloud State's LEO (excellent, comprehensive site on writing)
Daniel Dennett, "Quining Qualia"
Ken Bigelow, Adding Binary Numbers
Steven Goldberg, "The Inevitability of Patriarchy" (1977)
Daniel Dennett, "Where Am I?"
Ken Bigelow, Basic Logic Functions and Gates
Terry Bisson, Meat in Space. Also known as "They're Made of Meat"
David Foster Wallace, "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage"
Ken Bigelow, Derived Gates NAND NOR XOR
Textbook Companion Website for Hurley's A Concise Introduction to Logic
Donald Simanek's Pages
LEO's Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of Language
The Questions of King Milinda (Buddhist Scripture)
Excellent general site on fallacies ("The Fallacy Files")
Logical Inconsistency
Index of Skeptical Inquirer articles online
Excerpt from Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct on the universal culture
Mary Anne Warren, "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion"
Stevan Harnad, "Minds, Machines, and Searle"
Feodor Dostoevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov
On fallacies of ambiguity
William James, "The Will to Believe"
Frank Jackson, "Epiphenomenal Qualia"
On fallacies of presumption
Thomas Nagel, "What is it like to be a bat?"
Frank Pajares, Outline of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
On fallacies of relevance
Tim Holt's philosophy of religion site
Gloria Steinem, "Sex, Lies, and Advertising"
The Paradox of Egoism
UVA World Religions and Spirituality Project
History of Science from PBS
Patricia Churchland, "The Hornswoggle Problem"
Video overview of epistemology
Jack Balkin, "How Mass Media Simulate Political Transparency"
William J. Beaty, Recurring Myths About Science
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