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Appendix A | Appendix B | Appendix C
Appendices: Related Resources
Appendix A: List of Relevant Courses
Basic Background Courses
Science, Philosophy, and Religion Surveys
Philosophical Cosmology and Philosophy of Nature Courses
Philosophy of Religion Courses
History of Philosophy Courses
Philosophy of Science Courses
History of Science Courses
Multidisciplinary Application Courses
Appendix B: Additional Resource: Reading List in the History of Philosophy
Appendix C: Additional Resource: Other Philosophy of Religion Material
Journals
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Abstracts, and Bibliographies
Introductory Texts and Sourcebooks
Websties, Including Texts and Discussion Groups
Appendix A: List of Relevant Courses
Basic Background Courses
- Core Texts and Motifs of World Religious Traditions (Berthrong, Lobel, Neville, Wegter-McNelly, Wildman; taught every second year)
- Lab Placement and Lab Placement Seminar (Wegter-McNelly, Wildman; taught as needed)
- Science Literacy (full-year course; Wildman and various university science faculty; taught every two years)
Science, Philosophy, and Religion Surveys
- SPR Proseminar (on S&R core literature; Wegter-McNelly, Wildman; taught every two years)
- Religious Faith and Scientific Understanding (Wegter-McNelly, Wildman; taught infrequently)
- R&S: Cosmology, Biology, and Self-Organization (Wegter-McNelly, Wildman; taught every two years)
- R&S: Cognitive Science, Bioethics, and Environment (Wegter-McNelly, Wildman; taught every two years)
Philosophical Cosmology and Philosophy of Nature Courses
- Philosophical Cosmology (Neville; taught most years in one form or another)
- Western Philosophy in Theological Perspective (Neville, Wegter-McNelly, Wildman; taught every year)
Philosophy of Religion Courses
- There is an enormous number of them; far too many to list
History of Philosophy Courses
- Again, there is an enormous number of them; far too many to list
Philosophy of Science Courses
- Philosophy of Science Survey (Bokulich; taught every year)
- Philosophy of Science Special Topics (Bokulich, Cao; taught every year)
History of Science Courses
- Christianity and Science, 1600-present (Roberts; taught almost every year)
- Religion and Evolution, Religion and Psychology (Roberts; taught periodically)
Multidisciplinary Application Courses
- Languages of Theology, Religion, and Mysticism (Wildman; taught every two years)
- Medical Ethics (Tauber; taught now and then)
- Multidisciplinary Approach to Religious Experience (Wildman; taught every two years)
Appendix
B: Additional Resource: Reading List in the History of Philosophy
(Compiled
by David Weininger, 1999)
Primary Works
Upanisads.
Plato.
Euthyphro, Laws, Meno, Parmenides,
Phaedo, Republic, Sophist,
Theaetetus. (In The Collected
Dialogues of Plato, ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns.
Aristotle.
Metaphysics, Nichomachean Ethics, On the
Heavens, On the Soul, Physics,
Prior and Posterior Analytics. (In The Collected Works of Aristotle, ed. Jonathan Barnes.)
Bhagavad-Gita.
Philo
of Alexandria. Works
(selections).
Chuang-Tzu.
The Complete Works.
Sextus
Empiricus. Outline of Scepticism.
Samkhyakarika.
Plotinus.
Enneads.
Augustine.
Confessions, On the Free Choice of the Will, City
of God.
Dharmakirti.
Vadanyaya.
Samkara.
Commentary on the Vedantasutras.
Jayanta.
Nyayamanjari.
Saadia.
Book of Beliefs and Opinions.
Anselm.
Proslogion.
Ramanuja.
Commentary on the Vedantasutras.
Al-Ghazali.
The Ninety-Nine Names of God, Tahafut
al-falasifa.
Maimonides.
The Guide of the Perplexed.
Ibn-Rushd.
Tahafut al-tahafut, On
the Harmony of Philosophy and Religion.
Aquinas.
Summa contra Gentiles, Summa
Theologiae (selections).
Madhva.
Commentary on the Vedantasutras.
Hobbes.
Leviathan.
Bacon.
Essays in the Advancement of
Learning.
Descartes.
Discourse on Method, Meditations.
Spinoza.
Ethics, Tractatus Theologico-Philosophicus.
Pascal.
Pensees.
Locke.
Essay Concerning Human Understanding,
The Reasonableness of Christianity.
Leibniz.
Discourse on Metaphysics, Theodicy.
Butler.
Analogy of Religion.
Berkeley.
Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge,
Three Dialogues.
Rousseau.
Second Discourse, Emile.
Hume.
Enquiries Concerning Human
Understanding and Morals, Dialogues
Concerning Natural Religion.
Diderot.
Selected Philosophical Writings.
Clarke.
Demonstration of the Being and
Attributes of Cod.
Mendelssohn.
Philosophical Writings.
Kant.
Critique of Pure Reason, Critique
of Practical Reason, Critique of
Judgment, Religion Within the
Limits of Reason Alone.
Herder.
Against Pure Reason, Ideas
on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind.
Fichte.
Science of Knowledge, Critique
of All Revelation.
Schelling.
System of Transcendental Idealism,
Of Human Freedom.
Hegel.
Phenomenology of Spirit, Lectures
on the Philosophy of Religion (1827 edition).
Lessing.
Lessing’s Theological Writings.
Schleiermacher.
On Religion.
Comte.
Course in Positive Philosophy
(selections).
Kierkegaard.
Philosophical Fragments, Concluding
Unscientific Postscript.
Feuerbach.
Essence of Christianity, Principles
of the Philosophy of the Future.
Mill.
Utilitarianism, On Liberty.
Marx.
Early Writings (selections), The
German Ideology.
Schopenhauer.
The World as Will and Representation,
vol. 1.
Nietzsche.
Beyond Good and Evil, The
Genealogy of Morals, Thus Spoke
Zarathustra.
James.
The Will to Believe, Pragmatism,
The Varieties of Religious Experience.
Bradley.
Appearance and Reality.
Peirce.
Philosophical Writings
(selections).
McTaggart.
Nature of Existence, Some
Dogmas of Religion.
Husserl.
Ideas Pertaining to a Pure
Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, First Book.
Dewey.
Experience and Nature.
Cohen.
Religion of Reason out of the
Sources of Judaism.
Whitehead.
Process and Reality.
Royce.
The Sources of Religious Insight,
The Religious Aspect of Philosophy.
Santayana.
Scepticism and Animal Faith, Interpretations
of Poetry and Religion.
Rosenzweig.
The Star of Redemption.
Heidegger.
Being and Time.
Tillich.
Writings in the Philosophy of
Religion, Systematic Theology
(3 vols).
Buber.
I and Thou.
Wittgenstein.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Philosophical
Investigations.
Ryle.
The Concept of Mind.
Austin.
How to Do Things With Words.
Ayer.
Language, Truth and Logic.
Merleau-Ponty.
Phenomenology of Perception.
Gadamer.
Truth and Method.
Sourcebooks
Selections
from the following:
Chan,
Wing-Tsit, ed. Source Book in
Chinese Philosophy.
Gay,
Peter, ed. Deism: An Anthology.
Hyman,
Arthur, and Walsh, James, eds. Philosophy
in the Middle Ages.
Kirk,
G.S, and Raven, J.E, eds. The
Presocratic Philosophers.
Long,
A.A, ed. The Hellenistic
Philosophers, vol. 1.
Radhakrishnan,
Sarvepalli, and Moore, Charles eds. Sourcebook
in Indian Philosophy.
Appendix
C: Additional Resource: Other Philosophy of Religion Material
(Compiled
by David Weininger and Brad Herling, 1999)
Journals
American Journal of Theology and
Philosophy
American Philosophical Quarterly
Analysis
Ancient Philosophy
Arion
Asian Philosophy
Contemporary Philosophy
Critical Inquiry
Ethics
European Journal of Philosophy
Faith and Philosophy
Graduate Faculty Philosophy
Journal
History and Philosophy of Logic
Indian Journal of Philosophy
International Journal for the
Philosophy of Religion
Journal of the American Academy of
Religion
Journal of Applied Philosophy
Journal of Indian Philosophy
Journal of Philosophy
Journal of Philosophical Logic
Mind
Mind and Language
Modern Theology
The Monist
Philosophy East and West
Philosophical Quarterly
The Philosophical Review
Philosophy and Literature
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Philosophical Studies
Philosophy
Philosophy Today
Political Theory
Proceedings and Addresses of the
American Philosophical Association
Proceedings of the Boston Area
Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Ratio
Religious Studies
The Review of Metaphysics
Synthese
Zygon
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Abstracts, and Bibliographies
A Concise Dictionary of Indian
Philosophy, Ronald Grimes
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Macmillan and Free Press)
The HarperCollins Dictionary of
Religion
Routledge Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
Introductory Texts and Sourcebooks
Robin
Le Poidevin, Arguing for Atheism: An
Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.
Ben-Ami
Scharfstein, A Comparative History
of World Philosophy.
Websties, Including Texts and Discussion Groups
American
Philosophical Association
http://www.udel.edu/apa/
Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.utm.edu:80/research/iep/
Philosophy
in Cyberspace
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/
QandA List of Best Philosophy
Resources
http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/best-philosophy-resources-222838.html
Sean’s
One-Stop Philosophy Stop
http://www.cearley.com/philosophy/phil.html
Stanford
University Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/
University
of Chicago Philosophy Project
http://csmaclab-www.uchicago.edu/philosophyProject/philos.html
University
of Edinburgh Philosophy Survival Guide
http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/study_html/vade-mecum/index.html
Guide
to Philosophy on the Internet
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm
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