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Philosophy
Organizations and Resources
The American Philosophical Association professional organization for
philosophers
The Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy professional
organization for Continental Philosophy
Society for Women in Philosophy
a place to start to see the growing impact of women upon the western
philosophical tradition
Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
philosophical organization bringing together feminist philosophers and social
theorists
Radical Philosophy Association philosophical and practical resources
devoted to social transformation
The American Philosophical Society
resources related to philosophical, humanistic, and scientific interests
The
Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium Keep up with conferences and
related events in the region.
Online Papers in Philosophy
papers online by philosophy people, mainly in Analytic Philosophy
Philpapers Online a comprehensive directory of online philosophy
articles and books by academic philosophers. We monitor journals in many areas
of philosophy, as well as archives and personal pages. We also accept articles
directly from users, who can provide links or upload copies.
African Philosophy Resources
comprehensive site by Bruce Janz of The University of Central Florida
A Taoism Site
some great resources and directions for further study of Taoism
Buddhism
great site to aid study of the varieties of Buddhist thought and culture
The
Philosophers' Magazine
extensive philosophy related resources, including great philosophy related games
and challenges
Philosophy Minor
at Drexel Here are the official details.
Philosophy Major
at Drexel New! Starting September, 2009!
Why Study
Philosophy?
some reassuring news for those considering a Major in Philosophy (and their
parents)
The Drexel
Philosophy Club since 2002, the philosophy club has tried to
provide a place for students and faculty to talk about philosophy
and philosophical issues....
Thoughts On Writing A
Philosophy Paper some things to think about as you set out to write
assigned papers for philosophy classes
More Guides and Resources for Writing Philosophy a
comprehensive list maintained at erraticimpact.com
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PHIL105 Critical Reasoning
Syllabus for PHIL105 Section 002
Critical Reasoning, Winter, 2010 At this link you'll find the
syllabus for the course. Please read it carefully and bring it to
class on the first day so we can discuss it, clear up anything that
needs further explanation and start getting to know one another.
Syllabus for PHIL105 Section 005
Critical Reasoning, Winter, 2010 At this link you'll find the
syllabus for the course. Please read it carefully and bring it to
class on the first day so we can discuss it, clear up anything that
needs further explanation and start getting to know one another.
Syllabus for PHIL105 Section 014
Critical Reasoning, Winter, 2010 At this link you'll find the
syllabus for the course. Please read it carefully and bring it to
class on the first day so we can discuss it, clear up anything that
needs further explanation and start getting to know one another.
All Opinions Are Not Created Equal (This is the
Text for PHIL105 Critical Reasoning, Sections 002, 005, 014, Winter,
2010) This link
takes you to text for the course. Please let me know if you have any
questions or find any typos. During the first week of class you will
also be able to purchase a copy of this text at the Drexel Copy
Shop. A copy of this text will also be placed on reserve in the
Hagerty Library.
First Exercise Set This
assignment was sent via email in week two. Click on the appropriate
link for your section:
002;
005;
014
Second Exercise Set This
assignment was sent via email in week four. Click on the appropriate
link for your section:
002;
005;
014
Study Guide for the Midterm Exam
This
study guide was sent via email in week five. Click on the appropriate
link for your section:
002;
005;
014
FILM:
FRONTLINE: The Persuaders (2004) -
“...draws on a range
of experts and observers of the advertising/marketing world, to
examine how, in the words of one on-camera commentator, ‘the
principle of democracy yields to the practice of demography,’ as
highly customized messages are delivered to a smaller segment of the
market." The film "explores how the cultures of marketing
and advertising have come to influence not only what Americans buy,
but also how they view themselves and the world around them." You can
view this film by clicking on the title or clicking
here. A complete transcript of this
film can be found
here. Questions to consider as you watch the film can be found
here.
Related:
Manufacturing Consent
(1992)
Fear and Favor in the Newsroom (1996;
extra password: AMATO105)
FRONTLINE: The Merchants of Cool (2001)
No Logo - Brands, Globalization & Resistance
(2003)
OutFoxed
(2006)
WHYY Radio Times: Stephen Baker talks about data-mining and the "Numerati"
Third Exercise Set This
assignment was sent via email in week four. Click on the appropriate
link for your section:
002;
005;
014
FILM:
Toxic Sludge is Good for You: The Public
Relations Industry Unspun (2002) -
"...tracks the development of the public relations industry from
early efforts to win popular American support for World War I to the
role of crisis management in controlling the damage to corporate
image. The video analyzes the tools public relations professionals
use to shift our perceptions including a look at the coordinated PR
campaign to slip genetically engineered produce past public
scrutiny." This film can be found online as streaming video
at Hagerty Library Course Reserves
here
or by clicking on the title above. In addition to your Drexel log-in, a password is required
for access. It is “AMATO105.” A
transcript can be found
here. In addition to
the Hagerty online streaming version, there are Flash versions of
the film online divided into chapters
here and
here. The film is also at Google Video
here. Questions to consider as you watch the film can be
found
here.
Related:
Weapons of Mass Deception
(2006)
Buying the War
(2007)
FRONTLINE: News War
(2007)
War Made Easy
(2007)
John Stauber Interview concerning his book “The Best War Ever”
"America! Meet Your Puppet Master!" by Fabian Marquez
(extra password: AMATO105)
"Message Machine--Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand" by
David Barstow
"Behind the Pentagon’s Propaganda Plan" by Rachel Coen
Fourth Exercise Set This
assignment was sent via email. Click on the appropriate
link for your section:
002;
005;
014
Study Guide for the Final Exam
This
study guide was sent via email in week ten. Click on the appropriate
link for your section:
Hagerty Library Course Reserves:
Books and Articles:
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Critical Reasoning Text, Amato (4 Hour Loan) required
text
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Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies, And The Public
Relations Industry,
Stauber (4 Hour Loan)
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Trust Us, We're Experts!: How Industry Manipulates Science And
Gambles With Your Future,
Rampton (2 Hr Loan)
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You Just Don't Understand: Women And Men In Conversation,
Tannen (2 Hour Loan)
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The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing In American Life, Dawson (2 Hour Loan)
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Culture Jam,
Kalle Lasn (2 Hour Loan)
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Nineteen Eighty Four,
George
Orwell (Overnight Loan)
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War Made Easy: How Presidents And Pundits Keep Spinning Us To
Death,
Norman Solomon (4 Hour Loan)
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"America! Meet Your Puppet Master," by Fabian Marquez
(electronic reserve, password: AMATO105)
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"Telling the Truth About Damned Lies and Statistics," by Joel
Best (electronic reserve, password: AMATO105)
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"What Makes Us Think," by Howard Gardner
(electronic reserve, password: AMATO105)
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"Some Professors Take Payments to Express Views," by Michael
Schroeder (electronic reserve, password:
AMATO105)
Hagerty Library Course Reserves:
Video:
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The Persuaders
(DVD Overnight Loan; available as streaming video
here)
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Fear & Favor In The Newsroom
(VHS 4 Hour Loan; also available as streaming video with password
AMATO105
here)
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Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: The Public Relations Industry
Unspun
(DVD 4 Hr Loan; streaming video with password AMATO105
here)
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Thank You for Smoking
(DVD Overnight Loan)
Additional articles and other
resources:
Mission: Critical, Critical
Thinking-Informal Logic Site and On-line Laboratory
This site is a great place to sharpen your logical skills, with readings,
exercises, logic games and activities. Click on the Home Page button to get
started.
FactCheck.org The
Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy
Center of the University of Pennsylvania. FactCheck is a nonpartisan,
nonprofit, consumer advocate for voters that aims to reduce the level of
deception and confusion in U.S. politics, monitoring the factual accuracy of
what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates,
speeches, interviews, and news releases. Their goal is to apply the best
practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public
knowledge and understanding. The APPC accepts no funding from business
corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying organizations or
individuals. It is funded primarily by an endowment from the Annenberg
Foundation.
PolitiFact “PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and
Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential
campaign. Every day, reporters and researchers from the Times and CQ will
analyze the candidates' speeches, TV ads and interviews and determine
whether the claims are accurate. PolitiFact is bolder than previous
journalistic fact-checking efforts because we’ll make a call, declaring
whether a claim is True, Mostly True, Half True, Barely True or False. We
even have a special category for the most ridiculous claims that we call
“Pants on Fire.” The St. Petersburg Times is Florida’s largest
newspaper and the winner of six Pulitzer Prizes. Washington-based
Congressional Quarterly is the authoritative news source for coverage of
Congress and politics. Congressional Quarterly and the Times
are affiliates of the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by the
Poynter Institute, a center for journalism education in St. Petersburg.”
FactCheck
and PolitiFact on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane
At this link you can listen to this WHYY radio program from
September 19, 2008 in which two researchers from these services are
interviewed primarily concerning the presidential election. "We examine
recent political attacks in the presidential campaign with Michael Delli
Carpini, Dean of University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for
Communication and Bill Adair, Editor of PolitiFact and Washington
Bureau Chief for The St. Petersburg Times."
The Committee of Concerned
Journalists "The Committee of Concerned Journalists is a consortium
of journalists, publishers, owners and academics worried about the future of
the profession. To secure journalism's future, the group believes that
journalists from all media, geography, rank and generation must be clear
about what sets our profession apart from other endeavors. To accomplish
this, the group is creating a national conversation among journalists about
principles."
Center for Media and Democracy
The Center for Media & Democracy is a nonprofit,
public interest organization funded by individuals and nonprofit foundations and
dedicated to investigative reporting about the public relations industry.
On The Media
Lively discussion, informative news, and insightful analysis of issues and
controversies regarding the media produced by WNYC, New York public radio. Airs
Sundays at 11:00 am on WHYY FM 91 in Philly.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Offers well-documented criticisms of the effects of corporate control on
reporting and defends journalists and the First Amendment when they are under
attack.
The Center for Public Integrity The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt
organization that conducts investigative research and reporting on public policy
issues in the United States and around the world. The Center was founded in 1989
by Charles Lewis following a successful 11-year career in network television
news. Through thorough, thoughtful and objective analyses, the Center hopes to
serve as an honest broker of information – and to inspire a better-informed
citizenry to demand a higher level of accountability from its government and
elected leaders.
MediaTank This is an organization devoted to democratizing the
media, with excellent programs designed to counter the negative effects of
corporate and political power on democratic public discourse.
Independent Media Center- Philadelphia
It's Independent; It's Media; It's Philly. Read, participate, contribute.
What Ever
Happened to Investigative Journalism? At this link you can listen to
the radio program "Shining a Light" done by On The Media August 15,
2008 which looks at the history and present state of investigative
journalism. There is also a transcript of the program.
Still Not
The News For an update on video news
releases, see this recent report from the Center for Media and Democracy.
The Final Word
is Hooray some of the most notable media comments
from the early days of the Iraq War, gathered by Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting
At the Frontiers of Spin recent article on new attitudes toward public
relations and politics in the Obama Era
The Center for Science in the Public Interest Confused about the multitude of competing claims made in the name of
science? Check CSPIN out. They've been working on these issues for years and
they'll help you put it in a reasonable perspective.
POGO Founded in 1981, the
Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is an independent nonprofit that
investigates and exposes corruption in order to achieve a more accountable
federal government.
The Project On Government
Oversight is committed to exposing waste, fraud and corruption in the following
areas: defense, energy & environment, contract oversight and open government.
Media Education Foundation
organization producing and making available video resources offering
intelligent, informed perspectives on events from the interpersonal to the
international
Project Implicit
Think you are already aware of all your assumptions and prejudices?
Check this out!
How Doctors Think an
intriguing discussion of the recent book by Dr. Jerome Groopman, in which
excellent examples of phenomena associated with critical reasoning and its
failures-- including confirmation bias and other confounding effects, are
illustrated
What
Makes Us Think?
This is a thought-provoking review by Howard Gardner of the book in
which a humanistic philosopher and neuroscientist consider the
nature and scope of mind and brain and the relationships between
science, philosophy, and the humanities in understanding experience.
Drug Rep
Radio Times conversation and article by Dr. Dan Carlat, an
expert formerly employed by the pharmaceutical industry to promote
sales, discusses these kinds of promotional practices.
The Fix Is In,
This American Life Program #168: (RealAudio) Aired 9/15/2000
and 02/13/2004 “There are all sorts of situations in which we
suspect the fix is in, but we almost never find out for certain. On
today's show, for once, we find out. The whole program is devoted to
one story, in which we go inside the back rooms of one multinational
corporation and hear the intricate workings—recorded on tape—of how
they put the fix in. We hear from Kurt Eichenwald, whose book The
Informant is about the price fixing conspiracy at the food
company ADM, Archer Daniels Midland, and the executive who
cooperated with the FBI in recording over 250 hours of secret video
and audio tapes, probably the most remarkable videotapes ever made
of an American company in the middle of a criminal act. Screenwriter
Scott Burns heard this episode of the program and—with director
Steven Soderbergh—made it into a film [The Informant, 2009,
starring Matt Damon].”
Thank You for Smoking This link takes you to the listing at
Hagerty Library course reserves, at which you can find a DVD of this
film to watch in the library or borrow overnight. The film offers a
candid but humorous satire of public relations, its misleading
effects on consumers and its distorting effects on the lives (and
arguments) of practitioners.
Killing Us Softly
Feminist author Jean Kilbourne's site dealing with the impact of media and
advertising on our lives in various ways
Buying the War
This is a 90-minute documentary that explores the role of the press in the
lead-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. It "includes
interviews with Dan Rather, formerly of CBS; Tim Russert of Meet the Press; Bob
Simon of 60 Minutes; Walter Isaacson, former president of CNN; and John Walcott,
Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel of Knight Ridder newspapers, which was
acquired by The McClatchy Company in 2006...The program analyzes the stream of
unchecked information from administration sources and Iraqi defectors to the
mainstream print and broadcast press, which was then seized upon and amplified
by an army of pundits. While almost all the claims would eventually prove to be
false, the drumbeat of misinformation about WMDs went virtually unchallenged by
the media." For complete information, resources, and a complete transcript, go
to:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html. Watch online at these
links: Buying the War;
Chapter 1;
Chapter 2;
Chapter 3;
Chapter 4;
Chapter 5.
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PHIL241 Social &
Political Philosophy
Syllabus for PHIL241 Section 001 Social & Political Philosophy,
Winter 2009 At this link you'll find the syllabus for the
course. Please read it carefully and bring it to class on the first
day so we can discuss it, clear up anything that needs further
explanation and start getting to know one another.
Hagerty Library Course Reserves:
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Social and Political Philosophy
Readings From Plato to Gandhi, edited by Somerville and
Santoni, Doubleday, 1963
required text
Nineteen Eighty Four,
George Orwell (4 Hour Loan)
How Holocausts Happen, Doug
Porpora (4 Hour Loan:
please see Hagerty Reserve for my PHIL330 class)
War Made Easy: How
Presidents
And Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death,
Norman Solomon (4 Hour Loan: see
reserves for my PHIL105
class)
Required Readings for PHIL241 -
The readings linked in your syllabus for the class have all been
posted on electronic reserve
Additional articles and
other resources:
Democracy Then and Now - Changed Meaning of Democracy in Ancient
Athens and Now - from About.com: "Democracy is considered an
invention of the ancient Greeks. This page on Greek democracy brings
together articles on the stages democracy went through in Greece, as
well as the controversy Greek democracy caused, with passages from
period thinkers on the institution of democracy and its
alternatives."
The Last Days of Socrates
- This is an amazing site, with texts of the dialogues by Plato
directly concerned with Socrates' trial and death and illuminating
historical details, photographs and illustrations, produced and
maintained by the Philosophy Department at Clarke College in
Dubuque, Iowa: "This site is designed to help first year philosophy
students read the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito,
and the death scene from the Phaedo."
Early Modern Philosophers-
"Here are versions of some classics of early modern philosophy, and
a few from the 19th century, prepared with a view to making them
easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines,
and lines of thought." Compiled by Jonathon Bennett.
Karl Marx and Marxism
Resources - An incredible collection of wide-ranging online
resources on Marx, Marxism(s), and related philosophical and
political perspectives
A Brief Introduction to Marx's Economics -
Prepared by Dr. Roger McCain of Drexel's Economics Department. Dr.
McCain has also posted excerpts from works by great economists for
his History of Economic Ideas class
here.
Pyotr Kropotkin Resources - Various political,
philosophical, and scientific works by the famous anarchist
Antonio Gramsci Resources - "Antonio Gramsci's political and
social writings occur in two periods, pre-prison (1910-1926) and
prison (1929-35). His pre-prison writings tend to be politically
specific, while his prison writings tend to be more historical and
theoretical...."
George
Orwell - Politics and the English Language - "I have not
here been considering the literary use of language, but merely
language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or
preventing thought...Political language-- and with variations this
is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists
-- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind...."
Postmodern Thought - Wonderful and wide range of various
resources in Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern
Thought, compiled by Martin Ryder
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PHIL330 Criminal Justice Ethics
Syllabus for
PHIL330 Section 001 Criminal Justice Ethics, Fall 2009
At this link you'll find the syllabus for the course. Please read it
carefully and bring it to class on the first day so we can discuss
it, clear up anything that needs further explanation and start
getting to know one another.
Before
Teaching Ethics, Stop Kidding Yourself This article by Gordon Marino is our first reading.
First Essay Assignment Here
are complete instructions and guidelines for your first
assignment, due October 28. Please let me know if you have any
questions.
Sketch of Notes for the First Two
Weeks of Class
What is
Ethics? Our third reading this term. Please bring this and
all readings to class when we're talking about them if you can.
Study Guide for First Midterm Exam Distributed via email in
week four. Our First Midterm Exam will be held Monday, October 19.
The Quest for a Code of Ethics This article by John Ladd
is our fifth reading for the class, available at Hagerty electronic reserve. The extra password is AMATO330.
Second Essay Assignment Here
are complete instructions and guidelines for your first
assignment, due December 2. Please let me know if you have any
questions.
Study Guide for Second Midterm Exam Distributed via email. Our
Second Midterm Exam will be held Friday, November 13.
Revised Syllabus and Questions for the film "To Kill or
to Cure" Distributed via email November 15. Please watch the film
for Monday, November 23.
Study Guide for the Final Exam
This study guide was sent via email in week ten. The Final Exam
will be held on Friday, December 11 from 10:30-12:30 in Lebow, room
135.
Hagerty Library Course Reserves:
Books/Articles:
required text
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get
Prison, Jeffrey Reiman (2 Hour Loan)
How Holocausts Happen, Doug
Porpora (4 Hour Loan)
Hagerty Library Course Reserves:
Video:
(DVD
4 Hr Loan; streaming video with password AMATO330
here)
To Kill or To Cure (streaming
video with password
AMATO330
here)
Real Justice (streaming video with password
AMATO330
Part 1;
Part 2)
Additional articles and other resources:
The
Prison‐Industrial Complex Article by Eric Schlosser
The American Prison
Nightmare Article by Jason DeParle
Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad? Article by Jeffery
Kluger
The Plea
"'The
real American justice system is unlike anything depicted on Law &
Order and Court TV,' says producer Ofra Bikel. 'I know I was stunned
when I realized that only about 5 percent of all felony convictions
result from jury trials. The rest are settled by plea bargains. And
these deals aren't always to the defendant's advantage.' The Plea
tells several stories--different people, different charges,
different parts of the country, all with one thing in common: the
difficult dilemma of confronting a plea. The program also interviews
experts on the criminal justice system."
A complete transcript of the film can be found
here.
The Legacy: Murder & Media, Politics and Prisons
This film documents the rise and results of mandatory sentencing
practices in California and their relationship to wider social and
political forces. The PBS website for the film can be found
here. Use your Drexel log-in and the
additional password AMATO330. A DVD can also be found at Hagerty
Library Reserve.
Industrialized Social Control This
piece by Paul Leighton is an informative critique of some
foundational aspects of criminal justice policy in the United
States. It is also available at his Criminal Justice Website, (http://paulsjusticepage.com/).
Institute
for Criminal Justice Ethics Resource Links "The Institute
for Criminal Justice Ethics, the only nonprofit, university-based
center of its kind in the United States, was established to foster
greater concern for ethical issues among practitioners and scholars
in the criminal justice field."
Penal Reform
International
"Penal Reform International is an international non-governmental
organisation working on penal and criminal justice reform
worldwide."
Reducing the Costs of Incarceration "Most incarcerated
people are eventually released into the community. Programs that
offer inmates and youthful offenders assistance with rehabilitation
and transition back into the community can reduce crime and
recidivism. Thus, in an effort to increase public safety and reduce
the high rates of incarceration in Baltimore, the Criminal Justice
Program plans to concentrate its resources on two program
priorities: the successful transition of ex-offenders into the
community; and alternatives to incarceration for juveniles..."
Restorative
Justice Online
"Restorative justice is a theory of justice that emphasizes
repairing the harm caused or revealed by criminal behaviour. It is
best accomplished through cooperative processes that include all
stakeholders..."
Families To Amend California's Three Strikes "Over
24,500 nonviolent Strikers are serving life sentences, or at least
double and triple what they would serve without the punitive
character of California’s Three Strikes Law. These strikers are
costing taxpayers over $1 billion dollars each year. California’s
the only state where a nonviolent crime can trigger a life sentence
and California’s the only state where the prison population has
expanded to almost 200% of its capacity..."
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PHIL399-002
Philosophy & Technology
Syllabus for
PHIL399-002 Philosophy & Technology, Fall 2009
At this link you'll find the syllabus for the course. Please read it
carefully and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
"Dikes and Dams, Thick with Politics"
by Wiebe Bijker
Notes on Heilbroner and Jonas
Term Paper Assignment The Term
Paper for this class is due Tuesday, December 8.
"Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?" by Thomas
Pynchon
"Preface to Questioning Technology" by
Andrew Feenberg
"The Story of
Technology" by David Kaplan
"The
Philosophy-Science Continuum" by Howard Gardner
"Useful Invention or Absolute Truth- What is
Math?" by George Johnson
"A Contrarian Future for Minds and
Machines" by Selmer Bringsjord
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Other Sites
of Interest
Senior Privilege,
Senior Exemption ancient mysteries of the universe explained
Drexel University
official university information and resources
Drexel University Television
a resource with eye-opening, thought-provoking programming
WKDU Drexel Radio
"Because we are a free format radio station, the content of our shows is not
pre-programmed. Nobody is told what to play. The music played is at the
discretion of the on air DJ. We encourage our DJs to play at least 1/3 new
music, but beyond that, it is up to them. If it is not being heard on another
radio station in the area, then there is a chance we will play it." Cool.
WPEB,
88.1 FM, "Radio Volta, the audio working group of the Philadelphia IMC, is an
outgrowth of the webcast team that broadcasted over the Internet waves during
the 2000 Republican National Convention...."
Drexel Community
Social Awareness & Political Action Page
resources, announcements, and activism information
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Race
"Most variation is within, not between, “races.” Of the small amount of total
human variation, 85% exists within any local population. About 94% can be found
within any continent. That means, for example, that two random Koreans may be as
genetically different as a Korean and an Italian....."
Dark Legacy "While researching the Italian-American experience, filmmaker Heather
Hartley stumbled onto one of the uglier episodes in American history: the
lynching of 11 Italians in New Orleans in March of 1891...."
Essential Information
extremely informative resources geared toward activism promoting informed and
intelligent social choices
Commondreams.org At this
highly recommended site you will find wide-ranging resources to help you keep up
with world events.
Democracy Now!
a national, listener-sponsored public radio and TV show
Working for Change
great information and resources website associated with Working Assets
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign
Philadelphia's Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Co-op America socially-responsible opportunities for investors
Wooden Shoe Books the
intellectual and activist traditions of anarchism, alive and well and living in
Philly
Adbusters
challenges to consumerism
John Perkins
Interview author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, from WNYC
Radio, New York, November 8, 2004, (scroll down for link).
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change Stephen
Kinzer has reported from more than 50 countries and served as
The New York Times bureau chief in Turkey, Germany and
Nicaragua. He employs that far-flung perspective to examine
America's history of regime change in his recent book,
Overthrow.
David Barrett on the Bay of Pigs invasion
Recently discovered CIA documents suggest some intelligence
analysts had strong doubts about the Bay of Pigs invasion plan.
David Barrett is a professor of Political Science at Villanova
University. He is the first historian to bring to light a CIA
report on how the planning for Cuban invasion evolved.
Real Audio.
Colonialism and History A short article with insight into
the brutal reality of colonialism, and our tendency to minimize and
forget it.
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