HNR 301-01/PHI 394-04

What's So Dangerious About Darwin's Idea?

Spring 2002

PHI 185 Class News

Welcome to the History of Modern Philosophy

We'll look at Meditations 2 and 3 on Wednesday.

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Darwin Links  

Links to Internet Resources:

*Searle, "The Problem of  Consciousness"
Searle, "Is the Brain a Digital Compuer?"
*Fodor, "The Trouble with Psychologial Darwinism"
Sutherland, Review of Fodor 's book

Search the internet for philosophy resources at Noesis
(http://noesis.evansville.edu/)
E.g., try "evolutionary epistemology" or "evolutionary ethics"

Some recent finds:

Evolution Library (from PBS)

NATURE: Inside the Animal Mind - Resources (from PBS)

Evolution in Boston Review (Reviews of Dennett, Pinker, Ridley, and others)

History of Science 176 (An interesting Harvard course on evolution and the mind)

9.00 Home Page, 2001 (Steven Pinker's Intro to PSY course; outline and notes)

Darwin and Evolution Overview

THE HUXLEY FILE

Memes

UK Memes Central

Some earlier links (some may be dead):

NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Search: "Evolution"
(http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/search.html)

Sulloway reviews Ridley
(http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19980409034R)

Smith reviews Dennett
(http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19951130046R)

Smith and Dennett exchange
(http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19930114043E)

Gould reviews Dennett, part 1
(http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19970612034F)

Gould reviews Dennett, part 2
(http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19970626047F)

Dennett replies to Gould
(http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19970814059E1)

R.C. LEWONTIN, Survival of the Nicest? NYRB 10/22/98
(http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19981022059R)


Works of Charles Darwin
(http://www.literature.org/Works/Charles-Darwin/)

Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
(http://www.literature.org/Works/Charles-Darwin/origin/index.html)

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
(http://www.zoo.uib.no/classics/descent.html)

Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
(http://www.literature.org/Works/Charles-Darw
in/voyage/)

Virtual Library: Evolution
(http://golgi.harvard.edu/biopages/evolution.html)

Evolution and Morality: Bibliography
(http://costello.cas.utk.edu/~asnyder1/bib.htm)

Snyder's "Evolution and Morality"
(http://costello.cas.utk.edu/~asnyder1/evolutio.htm)

Evolution and Epistemology
(http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/notebooks/evol-epistem.html)

Nick Gessler's Evolutionary Epistemology
(http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/gessler/evoepist.html)

Evolutionary Approach to Epistemology
(http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/EVOLEPIST.html)

Evolutionary Epistemology
(http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/zoodir/a-evolut/a-evolut.html)

Plantinga's Review of DDI
(http://id-www.ucsb.edu/fscf/library/plantinga/dennett.html)

Plantinga on Methodological Naturalism
(http://id-www.ucsb.edu/fscf/library/plantinga/mn/home.html)

Alvin Plantinga index page
(http://id-www.ucsb.edu/fscf/library/plantinga/index.html)

Enter Evolution:  Theory and History
(http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html)

Darwin and Evolution Overview
(http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/darwin/darwinov.html)

Evolution and Behavior
(http://ccp.uchicago.edu/~jyin/evolution.html)

Info on memes
(http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/hyper-weird/memetics.html)

Talk.Origins Archive: FAQ
(http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-evolution.html)

Talk.Origins: Evolution and Philosophy
(http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil.html)


Online Newshour:  Talking About Evolution (4/21/98)
(http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june98/creation_4-21.html)

Online Newshour: AN EVOLVING DEBATE Can Evolution and Creationism Coexist in the Science Classroom? May 8, 1998
(http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/april98/creation_4-28.html)

Online Newshour:  THE GREAT DEBATE (Scopes Trial)
(http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june98/larson_4-20.html)

Scientific American:  Evolution Evolving
(http://www.sciam.com/0997issue/0997infocus.html)

John Conway's Game of Life
(http://www.jsworld.com/scripts/games/game015.html)

The Weasel Applet
(http://home.pacbell.net/s-max/scott/weasel.html)

Bouncing Baby Biomorphs
(http://home.pacbell.net/s-max/scott/biobounce.html)

A Life at Twelve Point Rule
(http://alife.fusebox.com/alife.htm)

The Tree of Life Project
(http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html)

The Baldwin Effect
(http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/baldwin/bibliography.html)

Evolution: Science Says No
(http://www.evolutionisfalse.org/) 

The Darwin-L Listserv Archives
(http://rjohara.uncg.edu/darwin.html)

NYRB: Dennett and Searle Exchange on Consciousness (1995)
(http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19820624056E)

NYRB: Dennett and Searle Exchange on Consciousness (1982)
(http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?1982062456E)

NYRB: Searle "I Married a Computer" (1999)
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19990408034R

Daniel Dennett's Home Page
(http://www.tufts.edu/~ddennett/)

Center for Cognitive Studies
(http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/mainpage.htm)

Reviews of Darwin's Dangerous Idea
(http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/indiv/scctr/philosophy/dennett/A15_darwin.html#xtocid255)

Reviews of Kinds of Minds
(http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/indiv/scctr/philosophy/dennett/A20_kinds.html#xtocid260)

The Library of Babel, by Borges
(http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html)
 

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