Thursday, September 10, 2015
Thursday classes
For Introduction to Philosophy the quiz question today was tell me what your favorite song is (send me a link if you have one). My favorite song is this one as sung by Francois Hardy. How do we determine what defines a category? Is rap music or poetry? All horses are animals. Some terms are easier to define than others. The list of philosophers for term papers includes all of these: Living Philosophers
Charles Murray
Thomas Metzinger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Metzinger
Owen Flanagan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Flanagan
Joseph Margolis http://www.cla.temple.edu/philosophy/faculty/joseph-margolis/
Peter Sloterdijk http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113387/peter-sloterdijks-philosophy-gives-reasons-living
Jurgen Habermas http://www.egs.edu/library/juergen-habermas/biography/
Sam Harris http://www.samharris.org/
Charles Taylor http://www.thenation.com/article/162667/sentimentality-or-honesty-charles-taylor#
Alister McGrath http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mcgrath/
Daniel Dennett http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/index.html
Martha Nussbaum http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/nussbaum/
Hilary Putnam http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/putnam.html
Slavoj Zizek http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/biography/
Alain Badiou http://www.egs.edu/faculty/alain-badiou/biography/
Peter Singer https://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/
David Chalmers http://consc.net/chalmers/
Judith Butler http://www.egs.edu/faculty/judith-butler/biography/
Fredric Jameson http://literature.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=812&subpage=profile
A.C. Grayling http://www.acgrayling.com/
Anthony Kenny http://www.europaeum.org/europaeum/?q=node/1239
Philip Kitcher http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/philip-kitcher
Frances Fukuyama http://fukuyama.stanford.edu/
Steven Pinker http://stevenpinker.com/
Mary Warnock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Warnock,_Baroness_Warnock
Cornel West http://www.cornelwest.com/
Douglas Hofstadter http://www.soic.indiana.edu/people/profiles/hofstadter-douglas.shtml
Susan Haack
Tariq Ramadan
Reza Aslan
Bernard-Henri Levy
Umberto Eco
Patricia Churchland
Paul Churchland
Richard Dawkins
Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
Alvin Carl Plantinga
Hans Kung
Alasdair MacIntyre
Completely Dead but still relatively recent philosophers
Michel Foucault
Edward Said
Vine Deloria Jr.
C. S. Lewis
Richard Rorty
John Rawls
Robert Nozick
Ronald Dworkin
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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