Appropriating Hegel by Crawford Elder

This CD features the monograph "Appropriating Hegel" by Crawford Elder, professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, and also includes the complete text of dozens of classic works of philosophy. (See the complete table of contents below).

Professor Elder's work focuses on metaphysics and philosophy of the mind. His research interests center on defending the mind-independent reality of whatever is needed to make sense of scientific practice and the cognitive successes scored by ordinary people using common sense. The working hypothesis is that this includes at least some familiar medium-sized objects. So relevant topics include essential properties and natural kinds; properties and natural laws; composition and vagueness. Connected topics are externalism in philosophy of mind, and static versus dynamic conceptions of time.

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Appropriating Hegel ISBN 0931968798$29.00

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To practice what you can do with plain text on your hard drive, save that Iraq file as text and then experiment with the file on your hard drive. (That file is the Library of Congress Country Study of Iraq, from my CD "The Middle East: Context for Conflict". There's also a CD on Africa.)

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3) I actually find that I read about 50% faster this way.

4) These CDs come with sample text-to-voice software (ReadPlease). You can try it for a month to check the quality (which I found surprisingly good), and to see if your kids feel comfortable with it. Then if you like the software, you can get a license for it -- to read any text on your computer, not just the files on the CD -- for $49.95 (I believe). 5) If you travel long distances or frequently, it's a lot easier to take along a few CDs than boxes full of printed books.

All in all, it's a matter of personal taste and habit. If you think this might be for you, give it a try.

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Table of Contents

• Appropriating Hegel by Crawford Elder

• plain text
• word document
• html document
• Classic works of philosophy
• American
• John Dewey
• Democracy and Education
• George Fullerton
• Handbook of Ethical Theory
• William James
• The Meaning of Truth
• Pragmatism
• Varieties of Religious Experience
• Herbert Palmer
• The Nature of Goodness
• British
• George Berkeley
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
• Principles of Human Knowledge
• Three Dialogues
• David Hume
• Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Principles of Morals
• Treatise of Human Nature
• John Locke
• Two Treatises of Government
• St. George Stock
• Deductive Logic
• A Guide to Stoicism
• Chinese
• Confucianism
• Confucian classics (translated by James Legge)
• Shu King -- Book of Historical Records
• Shih King -- Book of Odes or Poetry
• Hsiao King -- Classic of Filial Piety
• Li Ki -- Book of Rites
• part 1
• part 2
• I Ching -- Book of Changes
• Analects of Confucius
• Taoism (translated by James Legge)
• Tao te Ching and first part of Chuang-tzu
• Second part of Chuang-tzu
• The Tao Teh King or The Tao and Its Characteristics by Lao-Tse
• Dutch
• Baruch Spinoza
• Ethics
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• On the Improvement of the Understanding
• Theologico-Political Treatise
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• French
• Rene Descartes
• Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
• Principles of Philosophy
• Emile Faguet
• Initiation into Philosophy, translated by Sir Homer Gordon
• German
• Ernst Haeckel
• Monism as Connecting Religion and Science, 1892
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Phaenomenologie des Geists, 1807, in German
• with accents
• without accents
• Rede zum Schuljaresabschluss, in German, short
• with accents
• without accents
• Wissenschaft der Logik
• part 1, in German
• with accents
• without accents
• part 2, in German, with accents
• Immanuel Kant
• Critique of Pure Reason, in English
• Kritik der Reinen Vernunft, first edition, 1781, in German
• with accents
• without accents
• Kritik der Reinen Vernunft, second edition, 1787, in German
• with accents
• without accents
• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
• The Metaphysical Element of Ethics
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Beyond Good and Evil (Jenseits von Gut und Bose)
• in German with accents
• in German without accents
• in English
• The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragoedie)
• in German with accents
• in German without accents
• Goetzen-Daemmerung
• in German with accents
• in German without accents
• Human All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches)
• in German with accents
• in German without accents
• Thoughts Out of Season, Part One
• Thus Spake Zarathustra
• Greek
• Aristotle
• The Categories, Translated by E. M. Edghill
• Ethics
• The Poetics, Translated by S.H. Butcher
• A Treatise on Government translated by William Ellis
• Epictetus
• Golden Sayings of Epictetus
• Plato, translated to English by Benjamin Jowett
• Alcibiades I
• Apology
• Charmides (and preface to the collection)
• Cratylus
• Critias
• Crito
• Euthyphro
• Euthydemus
• Gorgias
• Ion
• Laches
• Laws
• Lesser Hippias
• Lysis
• Menexus
• Meno
• Parmenides
• Phaedo
• Phaedrus
• Philebus
• Protagoras
• Republic
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Symposium
• Theaetetus
• Timaeus
• by unknown imitators of Plato
• Alcibiades II
• Eryxias
• about Plato
• Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
• Italian
• Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce, translated by Douglas Ainslie
• Roman
• Marcus Aurelius
• Meditations

"Talking" software included on this book CD

Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. (NB -- This version of the software is intended for Windows PCS, not Macs.) You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.

When the rapid, automatic 10 Mbyte installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows.

When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and tuype whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. You can listen to samples at their site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.