Welcome to the blog APU students!

The lectures for my classes are on the right.  I am in the process of updating my lectures to Office 2007.  If you have an older version of Office you can go to this site and download a file that will allow you to open up my version of powerpoint.  

SSPWT Conference 2008

I'm in Raleigh for the next couple of days at a conference. I'm presenting a paper on the cognitive science of religion, emergence, and top-down causation. If you went to the conference and are interested in having a copy of the paper, you can download it here.

Revised Phil 220 schedule for Spring 2008

Since I had to miss on Thursday, here is a copy of the revised schedule for the class.

Phil 220 Revised schedule

Feb 26 – Review – Outline #1 for analysis paper due
Feb 28 – Mid-Term – Reflection paper #1 due

Mar 6 – Extra Credit #1 due

Mar 13 – Analysis Paper #1 due


Reflection paper – 15 pts. – two full pages – double spaced – required assignment. Reflection/reaction paper to different philosophy topics or class discussions; things that have been challenging, enlightening, interesting, frustrating, fun, etc.

Extra credit paper – 15 pts. - two full pages – double spaced. Reaction to philosophical topics contained in a journal article, movie, or book chapter (not the class text). May not be a movie review, but must address relevant philosophical topics in a chosen movie. Articles and book chapters must be of a philosophical nature.

Lecture notes for Warren Brown's class

For students who are in Dr. Brown's class on Neuropsychology and Religion, you can download the lectures note from the class I taught here. The file in in powerpoint, let me know if you have any problems accesing the file. Hope that helps!!!

Welcome Spring 2008 APU Students!

Welcome to my blog, which is basically a place to post my powerpoint lectures so that students can download them. They are listed to the left under my philosophy and statistics class. You will need to have powerpoint to download them. I'll be changing some of them through the semester, but the basic class notes are there. Feel free to email me with any questions, but email me at my APU email address jvanslyke@apu.edu. Anyway, good luck this semester and feel free to leave me a note here anytime!