The Philosophy Teaching Library
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A Collection of Introductory Primary Texts 📚 User-Friendly, Accessible Readings | 🌎 Open Educational Resource | ✏️ Founded by @WesSiscoe & @plblaschko
Joined July 2024
Check us out - featured today at the Daily Nous!.
There's a new and growing peer-reviewed, open educational resource to help guide students through primary philosophical texts.
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and we anticipate that this number will only grow with the popularity of the Library, making this a great chance to publish something that will be read by many, many students. If there is a philosophical text that you work on and teach frequently, now is the time to contribute".
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We anticipate that, within the next few years, the library will grow past 100+ articles, many of them covering some of the most read texts in philosophy. We wanted to offer this window of opportunity. Several of our pieces already have hundreds of readers,.
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"Considering that it has only existed for a few months, the Library has been very successful. We currently have 23 pieces up on the site, and those that are in progress will bring us to over 30 entries.
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Want Your Work To Be Widely Read? Contribute to the Philosophy Teaching Library. Read about us over at The Philosophers' Cocoon! (link below).
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Congratulations to one of our founders and Editor-in-Chief @WesSiscoe on the new position!. Can a @NotreDame academic resource stand the thought of an @OhioState based editor? Only time will tell. .
Two-Body Problem: Solved. This fall, Laura and I will be starting as tenure-track Assistant Professors at @OhioState in the newly established Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society.
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In this reading, we will engage with Descartes’ famous answer to this question—an answer that would have a colossal impact on the future course of Western philosophy.
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The central question of Descartes’ Second Meditation is: Can you be certain that any of your beliefs are true? Are there any of your beliefs that shouldn’t be doubted at all?.
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*New Article* . Knowing Your Own Mind.Descartes’ Meditations, Meditation 2 (link below)
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In this piece we delve into the philosophical reflections on these questions found in Plato’s Phaedo.
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We all wonder what happens when we die. Do we simply cease to exist when our bodies perish, or does our existence continue through our souls’ survival in a realm beyond the physical? If there is indeed an afterlife, how can we determine whether we will find happiness there?.
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action’s rightness depended on how much happiness it produced. Thanks to Dr. Adam Piovarchy of @notredameaus!.
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inalienable rights. But being able to do this requires first recognizing the thing we’re pursuing. In this piece, we’ll consider John Stuart Mill’s answer to these questions. He thought not only that happiness was good, but that it was the only good, and that every.
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Lots of things make us happy. Eating chocolate. Winning a race. Joking with friends. Being loved. But what do these things all have in common? What even is happiness? The Declaration of Independence famously puts “the pursuit of happiness” front and center as one of our.
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