Faculty Webpages
| Name: | Robert (Bob) Johnson |
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| Title: | Philosophy Faculty | |
| School/Location: | Alameda | |
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| E-mail: | rjohnson@peralta.edu | |
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Introduction:
Bob Johnson teaches Intro to Philosophy; Logic, Phil 010; Philosophy of Religion at the College of Alameda. He also teaches Intro to Philosophy and Intro to World Religions at the College of San Mateo.
Quotables:
The unexamined life is not worth living… according to Socrates. If the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten… according to Chuang Tzu. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe… says Albert Einstein.
Materials:
- Syllabus for Phil 100 -Sp 2014 at CSM
- Syllabus, Intro to Phil 1, Spring-2014, C of A
- Weekly topics & readings
- Intro-to-Philosophy, Power Point
- Krishnamurti Quotations and page numbers
- Krishnamurti outline of K’s main ideas regarding the urgency of change
- From Bertrand Russell’s POLITICAL IDEALS
- Krishnamurti biography
- Study Guide for first exam, Includes Krishnamurti
- Anaximander’s words
- Heraclitus
- Bertrand Russell: math and matter
- Study guide, Cosmological Philosophers
- Euthyphro … outline and comments
- Euthyphro: wrong in prosecuting his father
- Study Guide: Sophists, and Plato
- Study guide-Sophists & Socrates
- Plato: Arguments for the Forms
- The Republic : the cave
- Aristotle-brief lecture
- Cyrenaics… Hedonism
- EPICURUS
- The Handbook, Epictetus, p 1, notes
- The Handbook, Epictetus, p 2 notes
- Study list, Plato, Aristotle, the Hedonists
- Jeremy Bentham and Utilitarianism
- John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
- Mill- On Liberty notes
- Epicurus and Stoic philosophy compared
- Study Guide- Taoism
- Study for final exam, Intro to Phil
- Essays and Aphorisms
- Syllabus, Phil of Religion, Phil 4, Sp 2013
- Paul Tillich, Symbols, Myths, and Ultimate Concern
- Tillich: Symbols of Faith: outline
- Dynamics of Faith: outline
- Tillich, UC, short notes
- (for workbook) David Hume: Argument from Design
- (for workbook) Does the existence of God matter?
- (for workbook) from the play, JB: If God is God
- (for workbook) Leibniz questions
- (for workbook) Euthyphro Dilemma
- (for workbook) Mark Twain’s God
- Philo’s Objections to the Argument from Design by Hume
- Argument from Design, by William Paley, part I
- ANSELM
- Ontological argument, by Vlach
- Pascal’s Wager (betting on God)
- Study list for test 1, Phil 4
- Four Aspects of God
- Euthyphro… outline of the dialogue
- Outline of Hinduism
- Outline of Buddhism
- (for workbook) Mark Twain’s God
- Taoism … Study Guide
- Study list for ex 2, Phil 4
EXTRA READINGS AND RESOURCES
- Syllabus for Logic, Phil 10, Sp of 2014
- Logic Topics
- 2.0 Logic Words
- 2.1 LOGIC PROBLEMS Chapter One
- 2.2 Logic practice set for Chpt 1
- 2.25 Study List, Exam 1
- 2.3 an example of semantic ambiguity
- 2.4 Semantic Ambiguity example
- 2.5 DEFINITIONS, Rules for good definitions
- 4.0 Slanters Rhetorical Devices
- 4.1 Practice quiz over Slanters Rhetorical Devices
- 5.1 Fallacies List
- 5.3 Genetic Fallacies5.4 Three Fallacies
- 5.5 Smoke screen McGuire
- 5.6 Quiz over fallacies in Chapter 6
- 9 A Huffington arg by anaology example
- Benefits of drinking beer arg by analogy
- House
- Mind Over Matter
- Why Logic Should Be Taught
- Chapter 3 notes, Moore and Parker
- Chapter 4, exercise on Credibility
- Study Guide- Logic ex 2
- Fallacy practice, Ch 6 & 7 of Moore & Parker
- Deductive forms
- Diagram practice
- Euthyphro: wrong in prosecuting his father
- Argument by analogy
- Essays and Aphorisms
Syllabus and Materials:
BIBLICAL RELIGIONS: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Paul Tillich &Ultimate Concern
- Symbols of Faith, Paul Tillich
- Judaism- Chronology of Sacred Events
- Outline of Judaism, from Harry Tiebout’s COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS
- Four Aspects of God, (Harry Tiebout
- The-Prophetic-Interpretation-of-History
- Judaism and Christianity compared
- Christianity… summary of Tiebout’s chapter
- The Fundamentals of Islam
- Study Guide-Biblical Religions
HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM
- Hinduism Study Guide
- Heinrich Zimmer… on Philosophies of India
- Outline of Buddhism
- Buddhism Study Guide
CHINESE RELIGION