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Link Asch's Conformity Experiments

Link to Solomon Asch's conformity experiments which demonstrate  peer pressure of conforming to the group, resulting in participants giving an...

Psychology, conformity, ethics, experiment, social psychology view
Link Bioethics, Spring 2009

Full course with syllabus, readings, assignments, downloadable study guides and handouts.

Euthanasia, Killing, ethics, Assisted suicide, Abortion, Genetic engineering, Health care view
Link Classics in western philosophy

Full course with lecture notes, assignments etc.. It introduces Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume and Kant, and explores problems relating to mind...

Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Mind, Soul, God, Knowledge, ethics, Good life view
Document Course Overview

Notes about the schedule, translations, coursework, and rescources.

Kant, ethics view
Document Deriving the Formula of Humanity: 427.19–429.13

An attempt (with dubious success) to 'translate' and crystalise the passages leading up to FH.

Kant, ethics view
Link Digital Edition of Kant's Works (in German)

All the 23 volumes of the Akademie Ausgabe for reading online.

Kant, ethics view
Document Duties, Maxims, and the Synthetic Apriori

Further notes related to passages in GMS II.

Kant, ethics view
Document Duty, Will, Obligation, and Imperatives

Some notes that lead up to studying GMS II 412.26–414.11 (¶¶12–5).

Kant, ethics view
Document Ethics and natural philosophy in the public representation of the scientific experiment: A reading of Wright of Derby’s An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) in the light of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Christophe Boucherie

Joseph Wright of Derby’s painting of the Air Pump has often been described as a representation of the scientific enquiry and natural philosophy of...

Mary Shelley, ethics view
Link European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy

Open access peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of the American philosophical tradition, especially pragmatism and the relation of...

Pragmatism, American philosophy, epistemology, Philosophy of language, ethics, Philosophy of science, Aesthetics, Political philosophy view
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