Index for PHIL-4800 / AFAM-3600

Philosophy of Cornel West

Dr. Ari Santas

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Valdosta State University

Syllabus 4800f09

Schedules

Main Course Schedule

Schedule for Reader Presentations

Schedule for Democracy Matters Presentations

Unit Assignments

Group Assignments

Race Matters Assignment

Reader Assignments (see schedule above)

Study Guide and Questions

Reading and Writing Guidelines

Study Questions for Race Matters (for Unit I)

Study Questions for Democracy Matters (for Unit III)

Resources for Cornel West

Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West

Princeton Department of Religion bio Page

Internet Movie Database Page

Cornel West Bibliography

Supplemental Online Materials and Texts on American Philosophy

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”

Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”

Thoreau’s “Plea for Captain John Brown”

Info on John Brown: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html

For Frederick Douglass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (full text html)

For WEB Dubois http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E.B._DuBois

The Souls of Black Folk

For C.S. Peirce http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/

Peirce’s “Evolutionary Love” (great commentary on Christianity that West uses)

For William James http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james/

James’ “Will to Believe” (essay on the scientific nature of faith)

William Clifford’s “The Ethics of Belief” (the essay to which James is responding in “Will to Believe”)

For John Dewey http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/dewey.htm

on Dewey’s Moral Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dewey-moral/

on Dewey’s Political Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dewey-political/

For Martin Luther King, Jr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

The King Center website

King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Instructor’s Supplemental Notes and Writings

General

Santas Notes on What is Pragmatism?

On Racism

Santas Notes on History of Racism

Santas Notes on Definitions of Racism

Santas Anti-racism Bibliography

People’s Institute Anti-Racism Bibliography

Santas Performance Piece Divide and Conquer

For Cornel West’s The American Evasion of Philosophy

Santas Diagram of West’s Evasion

Santas Paper on West’s Evasion

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

Final Project Options (Unit IV)

Option I: Term Paper

Final Paper Project Requirements

Final Paper Project Abstract Form

Note: You must do Option I if you have missed significant number of class days of project work

Option II: Westview Productions Westview Concept

Short Film Project Assignment

Short Film Project Form

Some Helpful Hints on Video Editing

Student Evaluations Online

Instructions for Online Student Evaluations