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A philosophy of loving bliss neurophysiology?

How might evolutionary biology richly influence analytic philosophy? Similarly, how might evolutionary biology richly influence yoga-related philosophies?

How to teach critical thinking? (Critical thinking, in its broadest sense has been described as "purposeful reflective judgment concerning what to believe or what to do." The list of core critical thinking skills includes interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation and meta-cognition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking)

In what ways could and have thinkers brought together the dialogue / conversation approach of Plato's Middle Dialogues with the improvisational approach of the Grateful Dead, to create new kinds of philosophical conversation, as well as texts? Both Rorty and Nehamas, for example, seem to create new approaches to philosophy.

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Lao Tzu. (Gia-Fu Feng, trans., and Jane English, photog). 1972. Tao Te Ching. Vintage.

Lao Tzu. (Stephen Mitchell, trans.). 1992. Tao Te Ching. Harper Perennial.

Rorty, Richard. 1989. Contingency, Irony and Solidarity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

de Waal, Frans. 2009. Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved. (Edited by Stephen Macedo & Josiah Ober). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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Dreyfus, Hubert. 2004. Recent Papers. Berkeley, CA: socrates.berkeley.edu.

Goucha, Moufida. 2002. Philosophy Day at UNESCO. unesco.org

Landsburg, Steve. 2010. Lord Russell’s Nightmare. December 20. Oberlin, OH: The Big Questions' Blog.

What is Wisdom?

Durant, Will. 1957. What is Wisdom?. Will Durant Foundation.

Wisdom. 2007. Wisdom. Stanford, CA: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Wisdom. 2007. Wisdom. CA: Wikipedia.

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Durant, Will. 1965? 1926?. Voltaire's Early Life with Will Durant. (From "The Story of Philosophy: From Plato to Voltaire and the French Enlightenment"). youtube.com.

Monty Python - The Philosophers' Song 2007. Monty Python - The Philosophers' Song. YouTube.com.

Moral Reasoning

Sandel, Michael. 2009. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Select Websites
Bourget, David and David Chalmers. 2011. PhilPapers: Online research in philosophy. (PhilPapers' purpose is to facilitate the exchange and development of philosophical research through the Internet. Our service gathers and organizes philosophical research on the Internet, and provides tools for philosophers to access, organize, and discuss this research). PhilPapers.

Philosophy Texts Online. 1998. Philosophy Texts Online. Boston, MA: people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/textsonline.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2010. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University.

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