Guy Axtell, Ph.D.

  Contact me:  guya@unr.edu

    My Education:  Ph.D.  Philosophy,  University of Hawai'i.

    My Primary Interests: Epistemology & Metaphysics;   
    Value Theory & the nature of normativity; American Philosophy (James, Dewey, Rorty); 
    Philosophy of   Religion,  Philosophy of Science,  Asian Traditions
    (India, China, and   Japan).  Personal Interests: skiing & boarding (winter), 
    windsurfing & tennis (summer).

 
       Current Courses

       Student Resources;

       Subject  Area Links

             My Research Page
         The JanusBlog
      Previous Courses   Philosophy Dept. Homepage   Religious Studies Minor Hmpage
 
  Core Humanities Hmpage


Current Courses

           PHIL210: World Religions 

                Axtell's World Religions PowerPoints: Taoism; Confucianism; HinduismJainism Sikhism; Buddhism;
                                                                JudaismChristianityIslamNew Religions
Fundamentalism


         CH 470: Senior
Capstone: Religion & Science

Science Sites:  New Scientist &  Scientific American   & Science Now  & Scientific Life 

                                             Other Science:  NASA's site on the WMAP Project           
                                             Sceptical Sites: Positive Atheism  &  Council for Secular Humanism
                                             Integrationism: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences: Papers
                                                                       Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences: Research
                                                                       Metanexus Institue: Papers Online
                                                                       Science & Theology News
                                                                       Zygon Center for Science & Theology
                                                                       CounterBalance Foundation
                                                                       Templeton Award Winners video discussion [video]                                                                       
                                                                       Universe and Meaning [videos]

     CH201: Ancient & Medieval Culture

                                                Old Weeks 1-5   Lecture Notes
                                                                        Old Weeks 6-11 Lecture Notes
                                                                        Old Weeks 11-16 Lecture Notes

                                                                       The Bedford Handbook: Online Interactive Grammar Exercises
                                                                      Western Civilizations  Vol. 1, 14th Edition (Dushkin Annual Editions)
                                                                      The Trial and Death of Socrates
                                                                       W. K. C. Guthrie, "The Reaction Towards Humanism" (“The Sophists and Socrates)"
                                                                       Greek Mythology
                                                                       More Classical Texts Online
                                                                       Perseus: Classical Texts Online
                                                                       Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
                                                                       Hesiod's Poems, Online
                                                                       The Murder of Hypatia: three contrasting accounts
                                                                       Joan of Arc, Biography
                                                                       The Condemnation of Joan of Arc, Section 14
 
 
          Student Resources--Favorite Philosophy Links
 Easy Reference:


Research Through On-line Encyclopedias:

 Directed Research: Philosophy-Specific Search Engines    Hippias     Noesis     SOSIG
 

                                                          SUBJECT AREAS

 Epistemology

 
 Eastern Philosophy & Religion:

 
  Pacific Rim Peoples and Cultures:

        Pacific Studies Initiative   and here:   University of Hawai'i Site

 
  Philosophy of Science

 

    Critical Thinking and Logic

 

    Applied Ethics:

 

Previous Courses

        PHIL440: Theory of Knowledge      [syllabus & course page]

     PHIL/HIST 480: Science, Technology & Society (Capstone Course)
Scientific American Scientific Life
NASA's Mars Landings

SHIPS homepage/papers 
Al Teich’s Technology and the Future Tool Kit

Douglass Allchin's homepage/papers
Nanotechnology: Congressional session overview and questions

House Committee on Science hearings &transcripts
Tracking  Military and Technological Revolutions

Foundations of Transhumanism (with papers)
Bioethics Resources on the Web

MSN Politics of Biotech Food Debate

Paper on Genetically Engineered Foods

GenetiX Snoball: Activist group against GM foods

                 
   PHIL316: American Philosophy

                                              CH203: The American Experience  [syllabus & course page]

                       Dushkin American History Vol. 1   support site

·  Dushkin American History, Vol. 2  support site
· Bedford Handbook for grammar exercises (for online self-quizzes #34-1, 34-2, and 35-1)
· American Studies supersite
· PropagandaCritic [film clips and shorts]
· American Religious Experience
· Sabin Americana (American studies search engine)
· U.S. Constitution  /  Nevada Constitution
·       Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
·       Ralph Waldo Emerson
·       Henry David Thoreau
·       William Jamesand here
·       Charles Sanders Peirce Project
·       John Dewey Center
        History of American Thought

Powerpoint Lectures: Week  1   2  3  4   5   6   7
                                                9  11  13  15