tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post9179074851835193389..comments2024-03-14T04:16:20.472-07:00Comments on In Socrates' Wake: Online Intro To Philosophy Course?Michael Cholbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02012523929044363216noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-57542912688211033932009-02-05T22:49:00.000-08:002009-02-05T22:49:00.000-08:00For me teaching subjects like Philosophy isn't app...For me teaching subjects like Philosophy isn't applicable in an online setting.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.essayontime.com/services/essay.html" REL="nofollow">essay</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-35432557960439877922009-02-01T05:30:00.000-08:002009-02-01T05:30:00.000-08:00Thanks! My situation is that, a few weeks into the...Thanks! My situation is that, a few weeks into the semester, I have to take over someone else's class (or a class that started with someone else). But I simply cannot use the books the instructor had them buy -- they are just way too far from my interests, competence and style -- but I don't think I should burden then by requiring them to re-buy books, if the bookstore won't buy their books back. :(<BR/><BR/>I did find a few books (Rachels' intro book, Nils Rahout's book) that are available for very cheap -- $5 - $10 used on Amazon. Maybe that would be a better solution to my problem.<BR/><BR/>Thanks.Nathan Nobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287299803300142069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-46907540934782334052009-01-31T15:19:00.000-08:002009-01-31T15:19:00.000-08:00I'm not sure what your goal is, but if your goal i...I'm not sure what your goal is, but if your goal is to not require students to buy a textbook, you can use YahooGroups or Google Groups to post PDFs of scanned texts (of course, you'd have to get them scanned...). There are also a number of texts available for free online:<BR/><A HREF="http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/Online_Texts/" REL="nofollow">Online Texts</A> It seems you could use these to supplement one of the courses that don't contain readings.<BR/>Plus David Chalmers' new <A HREF="http://philpapers.org/" REL="nofollow">PhilPapers</A> for more contemporary pieces.<BR/><BR/>In a few minutes of poking around, I found some interesting online resources, but none quite fit your criteria.<BR/><BR/><B>online courses</B><BR/><A HREF="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Linguistics-and-Philosophy/24-01Spring-2006/CourseHome/index.htm" REL="nofollow">MIT Classics in Western Phil</A><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Historical_Introduction_to_Philosophy" REL="nofollow">Wikiversity Historical Introduction to Philosophy</A> (this one doesn't seem to really be what you want)<BR/><A HREF="http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2173" REL="nofollow">Openlearn Philosophy: the nature of persons</A> (not quite Intro, but does contain readings)<BR/><A HREF="http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/" REL="nofollow">This one from Oregon State</A> looks promising, but I didn't want to sign in to see what was going on.<BR/><BR/><B>online lectures</B><BR/><A HREF="http://broodsphilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/06/15/online-videos-of-philosophical-lectures/" REL="nofollow">Some philosophy lecture videos </A>(including some really interesting ones)<BR/><A HREF="http://webcast.berkeley.edu/" REL="nofollow">Berkeley webcasts</A> (if you poke through different semesters, there are some Intro to Phil courses on there.<BR/><BR/><B>Lists of resources</B><BR/><A HREF="http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html" REL="nofollow">Openware courses</A> There are some philosophy ones listed, but no Intro<BR/><A HREF="http://educhoices.org/articles/Ranking_of_Universities_that_Offer_Free_Courses_Online.html" REL="nofollow">Ranking of Universities with Online Courses</A> I didn't follow all of the links. Something useful might be found there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-58630306326200814992009-01-31T12:41:00.000-08:002009-01-31T12:41:00.000-08:00Nathan,Unfortunately they don't contain actual rea...Nathan,<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately they don't contain actual readings, and so maybe don't get at quite what you want, but MIT's OpenCourseWare project offers reading lists and lecture notes:<BR/><BR/>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Linguistics-and-Philosophy/index.htmAdam Potthasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00686426103984188017noreply@blogger.com