Index for PHIL-3430

American Philosophy

Dr. Ari Santas

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Valdosta State University

 

Syllabus     3430f07

 

Schedules

For Readings and Deadlines

For Presentations

 

Final Project Requirements (Option I)

Final Project Requirements

Final Project Abstract Form

 

Westview Productions (Option II)

 

Westview Concept

Job Descriptions

 

Westview Project Assignment                       

Project Form  

Court Case Script                               

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 William James

 

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

 

For John Dewey and 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

 

For Emma Goldman

 

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

 

 

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 Abduction                            Santas Notes on Critical Common Sense

Santas Notes on Essence of Pragmatism        Santas Notes on Fallibilism

Santas Notes on Fixation of Belief                 Santas Notes on Ideas Clear

Santas Notes on Metaphysics                         Santas Notes on Phenomenology

 

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

 

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