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Tips for Understanding Philosophy
Why Study Philosophy?
Paper Writing Strategies for Introductory Philosophy Courses
You are invited to follow a series of links to pages that trace the stages of writing a philosophy paper.

Quizzes

Intro to Philosophy Quizzes
Sample quizzes with answers from Lander University.
More Intro to Philosophy Quizzes
Scroll to the bottom of this Introduction to Philosophy syllabus from Texas A&M University to find links to hundreds of example philosophy quiz questions.

Teach Philosophy 101

Teach Philosophy 101
This guide to open source materials created Professor John Immerwahr of Villanova University covers course planning, lectures, discussion, quizzes, papers, exercises, humor, and more.

Saylor Foundation

Saylor is a unique resource that can be used in a couple of different ways.

Anyone wanting to take a class and not get any credit can take a "course" at Saylor.
Resources that they use can be viewed to incorporate into your class.
Students can use this as supplemental material.

Introduction to Philosophy
"This course will introduce you to the major topics, problems, and methods of philosophy and surveys the writings of a number of major historical figures in the field."
Moral and Political Philosophy
Survey of the development and application of moral reasoning skills to contemporary social and political issues. Topics include: philosophical investigations of justice, the value of human life, the moral standing of the free market, fundamental human rights and the conditions for a moral community.
Existentialism
This course will examine the main focus that unites existentialists, "existence." Particularly, it will examine the concrete existence of individual human beings. Major figures or study will be, Blaise Pascal, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus.
Environmental Ethics, Justice, and World Views
An introduction to the concept of environmental ethics - a philosophy that extends the ethical concepts traditionally applied to human behavior to address the entire natural world.

Humanities Commons

Humanities Commons
This is a a nonprofit, open-access network designed to provide scholars, teachers, librarians and other humanists with a way to share their work and teaching materials and to network. Humanities Commons features a library-quality digital repository which also includes philosophy material.

Open Course Library

Open Course Library was developed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges and is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Washington State Legislature. This material is created under a Creative Commons license with the intent that you take it and make it your own.

PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy
"This high discussion online course confronts the big questions human beings have struggled with for millennia, and engages in dialog with some of the world’s greatest thinkers and seekers."
PHIL 120 – Symbolic Logic
An introduction to symbolic logic with an emphasis on formal logical languages and natural deduction systems of logical proof. Students learn how to translate reasoning into a symbolic logical language and how to prove arguments valid with the precision of mathematics using formal systems of proof.

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