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Introduction
Elyse Purcell
Plato's Apology from Apology of Socrates
Plato
Book I in Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Chapter 2: The Great Happiness from The Works of Zhuangzi
Nanhua Zhenjing
Meditation I: Of the Things of Which We May Doubt from Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
Meditation II: Of the Nature of the Human Mind; and that it is More Easily Known than the Body from Meditations on First Philosophy
Chapter 15 in The Value of Philosophy from The Problem of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Chapter 2, "Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion from On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are
Michael Onyebuchi Eze
Chapters 1–7 from Prior Analytics, Book 1,
Section IV: “Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
Book 1: Aphorisms from Novum Organum
Francis Bacon
The Value of Philosophy – Chapter 15 from The Problem of Philosophy (link back to Chapter 1)
Heraclitus from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laërtius
Parmenides from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
The Analogy of the Sun and the Divided Line from The Republic
Allegory of the Cave from The Republic
Chapter 2 – The Four Causes from Metaphysics, Book V,
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (Chapters 1 and 2), the Katha Upanishad
Qiong Wang
Preface to the Natural History
Introduction from Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Daodejing
Laozi
The Depp Ecology Movement
Arne Naess
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (“Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way”)
Nāgārjuna
Protagoras from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Chapters 1-13 from Sextus Empiricus "outlines of Phyrrhonism"
Sextus Empiricus
Meditation I – Of the Things of Which We May Doubt from Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditation II – The Nature of the Human Mind, and How It Is Better Known Than the Body from Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditation III: of God: That He Exists from Meditations on First Philosophy
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
Section IV from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
Edmund Gettier
The Will to Believe
William James
The Epistemic Significance of #MeToo
Karyn L. Freedman
Epistemic Injustice
Rob Sinclair, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Meditation VI-On the Existence of Material Things, and the Real Distinction Between Mind and Body from Meditations on First Philosophy
The Hard Problem of Consciousness: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Thomas Nagel
The Ghost in the Machine: "The Concept of Mind"
Gilbert Ryle
Can Machines Think? "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Alan Turing
Minds, Brains, and Programs (The Chinese Room Argument)
John Searle
Ameliorating Algorithmic Bias, or Why Explainable AI Needs Feminist Philosophy
Supplemental Reading: The Problem with Reductionism
Supplemental Reading: What’s the Deal with Substance Dualism?
Discourse on Ritual from Xunzi
Xunzi
Émile, or On Education from Book 1
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chapter two- The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed from On the Rights of Women
Mary Wollstonecraft
Democracy and Education
John Dewey
Pedagogy of the Oppressed from
Paulo Freire
Stages of Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget
Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks
Supplementary Reading: Freire and hooks on Engaged Pedagogy
Ariel G. Mekler
Supplementary Reading: Does Dis/ability Now Sit at the Table(s) of Social Justice and Multicultural Education? - A Descriptive Survey of Three Recent Anthologies
Book 2 from The Republic
chapters 17-19
Chapter VIII: " Of the beginning of Political Societies" 2nd Treatise
A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among
Chapter 1: A Theory of Justice from Justice as Fairness
John Rawls
The Sexual Contract 30 Years on: A Conversation with Carole Pateman
Sharon Thompson; Lydia Hayes; Daniel Newman; and Carole Pateman
Chapter 1 The Racial Contract
Charles W. Mills
Transnationalising Disability Studies: Rights, Justice and Impairment
Karen Soldatic and Shaun Grech
Book IV (on the Soul and Justice) from Republic
Book VIII from Nicomachean Ethics
chapter 22 from Tao Te Ching
The Analects
Confucius
Book I, Part IV, Section VI, "Of Personal Identity" from A Treatise of Huaman Nature
A Sand County Almanac: The Land Ethic
Aldo Leopold
Queer Earth Mothering: Thinking Through the Biological Paradigm of Motherhood
Justin Morris
Book II from Nicomachean Ethics
Book X from Nicomachean Ethics
Epicurus- need to work on
The Four Noble Truths-look at author
The story of Good Brahmin
CHAPTER XV. THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY
Introduction: How do we know what we know
Meditation IV: Of Truth and Error
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
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Appendix
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