Links for Informal Logic (PHL 312)
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Introductory
Leo
Groarke's
article on informal logic from the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
This article describes the recent history of informal logic.
It also provides useful bibliography and links to internet resources.
Classroom Exercises, Exams, Handouts, etc.
(Note: In this section, the most recent work is usually closer to
the top of the list.)
- Overview of The Gentle
Art of Verbal Self-Defense System from Suzette Haden Elgin's VERBAL
SELF-DEFENSE HOME PAGE (see http://adrr.com/aa/index.html)
- Sample
questions from 1998 midterm - these should be useful for preparing for
the spring 2005 exam.
- Notes
on secret
writng
- Planning
for Interviews:
Group Work for Informal Logic (Spring, 2000)
- Old
Final Exam
(Monday December 14, 1998) - Group
Work on
Elgin on lying, metaphors, sexual harassment
- In
class
writing
exercise: a midterm review
Methodological Issues
Janice Moulton's "A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method"
discusses some of the problems inherent in competitive approaches to
argument.
The article can be found in Discovering Reality: Feminist
Perspectives
on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
, edited by Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka (Boston : D. Reidel,
1983) pp. 149-164. This book is available in our library; the
call
number is HQ1154 .D538 1983.
Joyce Trebilcot's "Ethics of Method: Greasing the Machine and
Telling Stories" tells how she finds stories useful for
communicating
insights in a way that doesn't methodologically maintain the machinery
of dominant white western male capitalist culture. It can be
found
in Feminist Ethics, edited by Claudia Card (University Press of
Kansas, 1991), pp. 45-51).
Texts and Authors on line
Books
On-line
Complete List by Author (This is a large file; over 1,875,000
bytes)
Their links include:
Presocratics
Presocratic
Fragments and Testimonials (James Fieser, "adapted from passages in
John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy (1892)." See e.g., [HERACLITUS],
[PARMENIDES],
[ZENO],
[XENOPHANES}
Plato
Apology -
Jowett,
Benjamin, trans.
Euthydemus
HTML at Internet Classics (Benjamin Jowett, trans.)
Protagoras
HTML at Internet Classics (Benjamin Jowett, trans.)
Lamb,
Walter Rangeley Maitland, trans.: Protagoras, by Plato (HTML at Perseus)
Aristotle
Aristotle:
Topics, trans. by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge (HTML at Internet Classics)
Freese,
John Henry, trans.: Rhetoric, by Aristotle (HTML at Perseus)
Aristotle:
Rhetoric
Aristotle's
Poetics ((Loeb) HTML at Perseus)
Machiavelli
Machiavelli:
The Prince, translated by W. K. Marriott
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu:
The Art of War (with commentary) (Gutenberg text)
Elgin
Suzette
Haden Elgin's Page
World Verbal
Self-Defense
League Page
Other Links
Some
sources
of information for those considering law
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