Showing posts with label Resorces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Resorces. Show all posts

Monday, April 18, 2011

Citing Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

While articles on SEP are good introductions and published by philosophers in the field, it is generally looked down upon to cite SEP. It shows a lack of dedication to go deeper into your sources. Many of the articles are only condensed versions of  the author' book or published work, in which case, find the original text and what you want to cite in that.  In undergraduate papers many young professors who are internet savvy will let you cite it. If you choose to do this SEP suggests the following:

Monday, April 11, 2011

Professional Philosophy Abbreviations and Acronyms

The following is a list of Abbreviations and Acronyms used on this blog and in posts on philosophy elsewhere. I will be updating this list as I find/ remember other terms. Please feel free to suggest ones not mentioned.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

External Funding for Graduate Philosophy Students

Found on a great resources, includes links  for graduate student funding at http://philosophyapplicant.wordpress.com. It does not seem to keep updated, but still has some great resources.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Free audio books: Books Should be Free

Downloadable audiobooks for free. Some authors include: Nietzsche, Russell, Plato, Descartes, Kant, and many more....
See link:

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Studying Tips for Philosophy

A good summery of alot of information with links to other resources. 

Monday, March 21, 2011

Peterson's Graduate Schools Search Engine

This is a good resource for studying which graduate schools are available. Particularly because you can narrow your search by location (state) and degree level (certificate, MA, Phd) in the advanced search mode.  You can also search multiple disciplines and sub-disciplines like bioethics. For someone who was in my position, being able to search for MA by state and PHD nationally would have been really useful.

UC Davis: Grad TA Handbook

The teaching handbook contains advice from philosophy graduate students about how to TA philosophy classes. It includes samples of the sorts of handouts you might want to use and other useful information. One should always save the teaching materials you develop for TA or classes taught. Many teaching colleges ask for these materials or they will ask what sort of thing you might have on a syllabus. It is important to create something like a teaching portfolio as a record for future teaching prospects later on. Also save teaching evaluations as they will be solid recommendations for teaching later on.
http://www-philosophy.ucdavis.edu/teaching_HB.pdf

Review "Philosopher's Tool Kit" by Aspenson

A quick overview of "The Philosophers Tool Kit" by Steven Aspenson . This article does not address wheather or not philosophy should be understood as method, but rather if a method is assumed would this be useful to a philosopher. If not useful to a philosopher, could it be a useful teaching tool.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Free: Philosophy on YouTube

Here are some links to some great philosophy free on YouTube. Mostly Bryan Magee's interviews for the BBC's Great Philosophers Series. Actually seeing the philosophers you read is an interesting experience.

Philosophy Blogs

Here my readers can post their blogs or websites. I would love to take a look at what other philosophers are doing on the web. If your posting valuable content I will suggest it to my readers on this blog. Post your blog or blog suggestions in comments. Here is a list of blogs I already follow.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Save Money on Books

A good list of where to buy text books online. Although philosophy usually doesn't have the outrageous book prices of the disciplines like biology, it is always nice to save some money. Some of these would be great to suggest to incoming students without a clue.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Visual Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies




This is a beautiful hierarchy of fallacies. It's represented in a easy to follow way.  I use something along these lines to analyze arguments. While I don't think this design will work for my form of analysis, I thought others might be interested. It could also be a great explanatory tool for students.
Picture Link: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/taxonomy.html



Sunday, February 13, 2011

Resources for Students

This site is really great links to all sorts of stuff.... I'm going to be pulling off this one for a while = ) here are just a few


How to Write a Philosophy Paper

How to Study and Keep a Reading Notebook
How to Use Faculty Feedback
How to Apply to Graduate School
Philosophy Journals
Whether and How to Publish Your Work
How to Get a Job in Philosophy

Noesis - Philosophical Research Online


This is quite a useful tool. I have found it really handy for doing research. It indexes many important articles which are not sorted in Philosophers Index.