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- Plato's cave and degrees of separation from the Real
- Who is Socrates?
- The Socratic method
- Socrates as midwife
- Indirect communication à la Soren Kierkegaard
- Dad and George
- A bit of Athenian history
- Outline of The Phaedrus
- The Phaedrus and The Eternal
- Introduction to the Hebrew wisdom literature
- Introduction to the Book of Proverbs
- Introduction to the Book of Job
- Introduction to the Book of Ecclesiastes
- The wisdom teachings of The Book of Proverbs
- What God likes about Job
- Stages on life's way
- Historical periods in western philosophy
- A few dates in the modern period
- Introduction to epistemology
- On Stuff
- Quantum physics
- My Dream
- Tulpas and Hinduism
- A Philosophical map
- The empiricist and rationalist philosophers
- Introduction to John Locke
- Introduction to George Berkeley
- Introduction to David Hume
- Introduction to Immanuel Kant
- A too-short outline of Immanuel Kant's epistemology
- A Philosophical map
- Introduction to Schopenhauer
- Introduction to Emmanuel Swedenborg
- Introduction to Martin Buber
Discussion questions
- Definition of "to discuss"
- The moral demands of good dialog
- Dad and George (indirect communication)
- Person A injures person B
- Civil disobedience
- The problem of evil
- Tolstoy's dream
- My Dream, or How Not to Tell What's Really Real
- Epistemology discussion questions
- Swedenborg & Schopenhauer: A discussion question
- To laugh or not to laugh
Philosophers
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- John Locke homepage
- Introduction to John Locke
- George Berkeley homepage
- Introduction to George Berkeley
- David Hume homepage
- Introduction to David Hume
- Immanuel Kant homepage
- Introduction to Immanuel Kant
- A too-short outline of Immanuel Kant's metaphysical question
- Arthur Schopenhauer homepage
- Emmanuel Swedenborg homepage
- Leo Tolstoy homepage
- Martin Buber homepage
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Books authored
- Ethical Issues in HIV Vaccine Trials (the book)
- Jenner On Trial: The Ethics of Vaccine Research in the Age of Smallpox and the Age of AIDS
- Environmentally
Induced Illnesses: Ethics, Risk Assessment, and Human Rights
Public lectures
- Ethical Quandaries in HIV Vaccine Trials (the lecture)
- Jenner On Trial
- Emerging Environmental Epidemics
- Perfumes & Pesticides
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