Mesa Community College Edition Short Description: Developed for MCCCD course SBU200 Society …
Mesa Community College Edition
Short Description: Developed for MCCCD course SBU200 Society and Business
Word Count: 110867
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This course is an introduction to the theory that tries to explain …
This course is an introduction to the theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler processes. It treats such aspects of thinking as vision, language, learning, reasoning, memory, consciousness, ideals, emotions, and personality. It incorporates ideas from psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science to resolve theoretical issues such as wholes vs. parts, structural vs. functional descriptions, declarative vs. procedural representations, symbolic vs. connectionist models, and logical vs. common-sense theories of learning.
Medicine Hat Edition Short Description: Some Problems of Philosophy is a first …
Medicine Hat Edition
Short Description: Some Problems of Philosophy is a first pass at providing a beginning text for college and university students.
Long Description: Some Problems of Philosophy is designed to be used with a first year course in philosophy that covers a little informal logic, God, knowledge, and mind. It includes some first rate original contributions from contemporary thinkers and the obvious historical works.
Word Count: 88250
ISBN: 978-1-55195-465-3
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It is Euro-centric to refer to all the Philosophies of Asia as …
It is Euro-centric to refer to all the Philosophies of Asia as “Eastern” as it unfairly groups the quite various Philosophies that developed in West Asia (Zoroastrianism), South Asia (Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Sikhism), and East Asia (Ch’an Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism) into a single unit that implies they are quite similar. Other than their relative geographic proximity, the various philosophies are, in many ways, more different than those philosophies that have been developed in Europe and the other parts of the world. This first Unit explores some of the older philosophical viewpoints that underlie much of the philosophy that has been developed in East Asia, particularly China and Japan. These are Taoism, Confucianism, and the philosophical underpinnings of the Shinto religions.
This graduate seminar provides an examination of mass and elite political behavior …
This graduate seminar provides an examination of mass and elite political behavior in the United States, with an emphasis on political participation, political inequality, elections, voting behavior, and political organizations.
This thought experiment, based on an essay by Professor Thomas Nagel, Philosopher …
This thought experiment, based on an essay by Professor Thomas Nagel, Philosopher at New York University, encourages students to question the morality of intervention. Professor Nagel attempted to liberate a spider he found living in a urinal from it is seemingly terrible living situation, only to find it dead the next day. Wracked with guilt, he began to question his decision. Should he have moved the spider? What would you have done?
In this lesson students learn about the important role of religious artworks …
In this lesson students learn about the important role of religious artworks in the early Renaissance in Italy. Through the visual analysis of an early Renaissance altarpiece, they learn about connections between new modes of visual representation and changing religious practice in the Catholic Church. Students research an early Renaissance artist working in Florence who created devotional, religious imagery and write a short paper.
Unlike film, theater in America does not have a ratings board that …
Unlike film, theater in America does not have a ratings board that censors content. So plays have had more freedom to explore and to transgress normative culture. Yet censorship of the theater has been part of American culture from the beginning, and continues today. How and why does this happen, and who decides whether a play is too dangerous to see or to teach? Are plays dangerous? Sinful? Even demonic? In our seminar, we will study plays that have been censored, either legally or extra-legally (i.e. refused production, closed down during production, denied funding, or taken off school reading lists). We’ll look at laws, both national and local, relating to the “obscene”, as well as unofficial practices, and think about the way censorship operates in American life now. And of course we will study the offending texts, themselves, to find what is really dangerous about them, for ourselves.
This course explores variations on the proposition that an adequate recognition of …
This course explores variations on the proposition that an adequate recognition of beauty could, however indirectly, make you a more humane person. Readings extend widely across literary and non-literary genres, including lyric poetry and the novel, philosophical prose and essays.
According to Professor Aeon Skoble of Bridgewater State University, the word “value” …
According to Professor Aeon Skoble of Bridgewater State University, the word “value” has very different meanings for economists and philosophers. Economists view value as subjective to reflect individual tastes and preferences. Philosophers, on the other hand, use the term objectively, to refer to concepts such as rights. In this video, Professor Skoble explains how these different conceptions actually compliment each other.
This course is designed to provide graduate students and postdoctoral associates with …
This course is designed to provide graduate students and postdoctoral associates with techniques that enhance both validity and responsible conduct in scientific practice. Lectures present practical steps for developing skills in scientific research and are combined with discussion of cases. The course covers study design, preparation of proposals and manuscripts, peer review, authorship, use of humans and non-human animals in research, allegations of misconduct, and intellectual property. Also discussed are mentoring relationships and career options. Aspects of responsible research conduct are integrated into lectures and case discussion as appropriate to the specific topic. This course also satisfies the training grant requirements of the NIH for education in the responsible conduct of research. Beginning in Spring 2004, this course will be titled “Survival Skills for Researchers: The Responsible Conduct of Research.”
This is a sample syllabus for a moral reasoning course that will …
This is a sample syllabus for a moral reasoning course that will explore the historical life of Jesus of Nazareth, analyzing his role, influence, and teachings. We will look at examples of his impact on the lives of other famous historical figures and consider how his moral philosophy can apply to our contemporary life.The course is designed for students of all traditions, backgrounds, and lifestyles. All faith views will be invited and encouraged to share in civil interfaith dialogue.
Textbook for symbolic logic, beginning at a level appropriate for beginning students, …
Textbook for symbolic logic, beginning at a level appropriate for beginning students, continuing through Gödel's completeness and incompleteness theorems. The text naturally divides into two volumes, the first for reasoning in logic, the second for reasoning about it.
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of …
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero’s reign, chronicling the emperor’s fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy climaxing in his publicly consummated ‘marriage’ to his toy boy Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero’s ‘grotesque’ new palace, the so-called ‘Golden House’, from the ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes on to present us with Nero’s gruesome efforts to quell these mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire: Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters focusing on one of Nero’s most principled opponents, the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen’s and Gildenhard’s incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus’ prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
This website is a tribute to the intellectual curiosity of young people. …
This website is a tribute to the intellectual curiosity of young people. We know that they have questions about all the big ideas that have engaged philosophers throughout the ages. What they don’t have is a way to discuss those questions with other people, especially in an educational setting. That’s where you come in! By using this website, you’ll provide your wonderfully intelligent and boldly inquisitive students with the opportunity to engage in a range of philosophical discussions about issues that other students their age have told us were the most pressing ones in their lives. You may be wondering how you can do this without having any philosophical training. You will be relieved to discover that teaching philosophy to secondary school children does not involve giving lectures on the great philosophers of the past or the central problems of Western philosophy. What is does require is that you commit yourself to giving your students the opportunity to discuss philosophical questions among themselves. We have tried to make this as easy for you as possible. We have created webpages devoted to different philosophical issues that students have told us they want to discuss with their peers. On each page, you will find a variety of different film clips. At the end of each clip, questions for discussion appear on the screen. If you just pause the clip, you or a student can read the question out loud to begin a philosophical discussion. Your role is to facilitate that discussion, not tell the students what to think about anything; your role is to assist students so that they can have a productive discussion with one another. For even though children may be natural-born philosophers, they are not born ready to discuss issues with their peers. That’s what we hope to help them with on this site. Because “all” that the teacher has to do is to assist the children in their philosophical discussion, it doesn’t require any special philosophical knowledge to teach philosophy to secondary school children. All you need to know is how to facilitate a discussion among your students and, of course, how to navigate this website so you know how to get to the material you need when you need it!
A Guide for Teaching and Learning Online Short Description: Online instructors need …
A Guide for Teaching and Learning Online
Short Description: Online instructors need a framework for "teaching beyond text" using rich media as instructional resources. This book defines rich media, its affordances, and its value in conveying information. The book offers a model for pedagogical strategies, a set of instructor competencies, and two models for assessment for use in professional development.
Long Description: Online instructors need a framework for “teaching beyond text” using rich media as instructional resources. These include multimedia, social media, and cloud-based Web tools. This book defines rich media, its affordances, its value in conveying information, a model for pedagogical strategies, a set of instructor competencies, and two models for assessment for use in professional development.
Word Count: 15257
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Short Description: This book offers an open guide to online discussions, media …
Short Description: This book offers an open guide to online discussions, media arts production, blended learning, and active learning from L&S Learning Support Services @ UW-Madison.
Long Description: This book offers an open guide to online discussions, media arts production, blended learning, and active learning from L&S Learning Support Services @ UW-Madison. It was first published in 2015 to accompany an online professional development course provided by LSS.
Word Count: 35588
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