Index for PHIL-3430

American Philosophy

Dr. Ari Santas

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Valdosta State University

 

 

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Study Abroad this Summer in

Greece & the Mediterranean

·         Maymester Program, 6 credit hours in PHIL/REL

·         Available to all VSU and USG Students

·         See PowerPoint Presentation

·         Download Application

·         Pay Online

 

Syllabus     3430f10

 

Schedules  

Main Schedule: 3430 Schedule F10

Conference Schedule: 3430 Conference Schedule

 

Final Project Requirements

 

Option I: Term Paper

Final Paper Project Requirements

Final Paper Project Abstract Form

 Option II: Short Film

Final Film Project Assignment

Final Film Project Form

 

Sample Student Papers

Short Papers

Emerson’s “American Scholar”

 

Supplemental Online Materials and Texts

 

For Thomas Jefferson and R.W. Emerson and H.D. Thoreau

General Resource for Jefferson http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeffcont.htm

Jefferson’s rough draft of the Declaration

Jefferson’s “Account of a Declaration”

Jefferson on Religious Freedom

 

Emerson’s “American Scholar”

Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”

 

Info on John Brown (for Thoreau Essay): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html

 

For WEB Dubois

The Souls of Black Folk

 

For Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman Papers main page http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Guide

 

For Neihardt

John Neihardt Foundation (follow links to some of his his essays)

Wikipedia page on John Neihardt

Black Elk Speaks page

Vine Deloria, Jr. page (wrote Intro to Black Elk Speaks)

Wikipedia page on Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (film shown in class)

American Indian Movement main site

Trail of Broken Treaties

 

For William James

William Clifford Essay The Ethics of Belief (the essay James is responding to in his “Will to Believe”)

 

For G.H. Mead

Mead Essay on Vocal Gestures

Mead Essay on Scientific Knowledge

Mead Essay on Play and the Other

Mead Essay on Realism & Pragmatism

Mead Essay on the Present as the Locus of Reality

 

Supplemental Notes and Writings

 

General

Santas Notes on What is Pragmatism?

 

For C.S. Peirce

Santas/Eaker Paper on Peirce and Education

Santas Notes on Fixation of Belief

Santas Notes on Abduction

Santas Notes on Ideas Clear

Santas Notes on Critical Common Sense

Santas Notes on Metaphysics

Santas Notes on Essence of Pragmatism

Santas Notes on Phenomenology

Santas Notes on Fallibilism

 

 

For William James

Santas Notes on Clifford & James on Religious Belief

Santas Handout on Clifford & James on Religious Belief

 

For John Dewey

Santas Paper on Dewey and Teaching Anti-Racism

Santas Paper on Dewey and Environmental Value

Santas Notes Intro to John Dewey

Santas Notes Dewey’s Reconstruction Introduction

 

For G.H. Mead

Santas Paper on Mead and Personal Identity

Santas Paper on Mead, Value, and Cosmology

 

For Cornel West

Santas Diagram of West’s Evasion

Santas Paper on West’s Evasion