Fall Courses:
 

Introduction to Philosophy	PHL 103	syllabus	Humanities Base Resources
Philosophy of Human Nature	PHL 304	syllabus
Philosophy and Cognitive Science	PHL 333	syllabus

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• by email (tibbetts@checkov.hm.udayton.edu)
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"Man is encapsulated.  By encapsulated I mean claiming to have the whole of truth when one has only part of it.  By encapsulated I mean looking at life partially and proceeding to make statements concerning the whole of life.  And by encapsulated I mean living partially because one's daily activities are based on a world-view or philosophy of life which is meager next to the larger meaning of existence."  - Joseph R. Royce

"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.  It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out of the widest vistas....No one of us can get along without the far-flashing beams of light it sends over the world's perspectives." - William James

"Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt-- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms." - Will Durant

"In trying to distinguish appearance from reality and lay bare the fundamental structure of the universe, science has had to transcend the 'rabble of the senses.'  But its highest edifices, Einstein has pointed out, have been 'purchased at the price of emptiness of content.'  A theoretical concept is emptied of content to the very degree that it is divorced from sensory experience.  For the only world man can truly know is the world created for him by his senses.  If he expunges all the impressions which they translate and memory stores, nothing is left....So paradoxically what the scientist and the philosopher call the world of appearance-- the world of light and color, of blue skies and green leaves, of sighing wind and murmuring water, the world designed by the physiology of human sense organs-- is the world in which finite man is incarcerated by his essential nature.  And what the scientist and the philosopher call the world of reality-- the colorless, soundless impalpable cosmos which lies like an iceberg beneath the place of man's perceptions-- is a skeleton structure of symbols."
    - Lincoln Barnett

"The last creature in the world to discover water would be the fish, precisely because he is always immersed in it!" - Ralph Linton

"There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies."
   -Ludwig Wittgenstein

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."
    - Marshall McLuhan

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail."
    - Abraham Maslow
 

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