Technical Notes: I have made this lecture available in Streaming Audio format. You can either play it directly from the Web, or download it in six different files onto your own Hard Drive. To do either one, you will need to download the FREE RealPlayer 8.0. If you already have an earlier version, they will work fine, too. RealPlayer has come automatically with a download of NetScape for some time now, so you may already have it installed. If you don't, go to my Streaming Audio Instructions page, also linked on our Home Page. NOTE: BE SURE to look for the link to the RealPlayer 8 Basic. This is the FREE one. The link on the Streaming Audio Instructions page always works; this one here (two sentences earlier) changes from time to time, and may not work by the time you read this. Follow all the instructions carefully. If you are using earphones -- highly recommended, and essential in the computer labs, which do not have any speakers -- plug them into the computer's sound card, NOT into the jack in the CD-Rom drive. Because, of course, you are not playing a CD-Rom. You'd be surprised how many people make this mistake. (If your CD-Rom drive doesn't have an earphone jack, that's fine -- this is one mistake you can't make, right?) If you would prefer to download these rather large files, you may then play them back with the free RealPlayer, and the playback will be smooth and uninterrupted, no matter how busy the Internet is. However, you will have to download them first. Do this while you are washing dishes or something. Keep going back to download another file until you have all six. You can delete them from your hard drive when the course is finished. |
Here are the DOWNLOAD links for the six files that make up the lecture. Remember -- you can't "stream" the lecture from these links, and you can't "download" the lecture from the links on our Home Page. The former links are for downloading only; the latter, for streaming only. Got it?
PC Users: right-click on the following links to download. Note which folder you download the files to. You will need to know this when you play them back.
| TO PLAY BACK: "Streaming" - click on the link in your web browser. This will automatically bring up RealPlayer. "Downloaded": In RealPlayer, use File-Open File, and browse to the file on your Hard Drive. |
Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six.
To STREAM the lecture, use the links on our Home Page (lower right cell of the table).
Outline Price's argument carefully.
(Note that, with a Streaming Audio lecture, you can "pause", move backwards to replay, and do what you need to do in order to listen carefully and take good notes. Do this!)
Summarize his argument. Discuss two examples which Price uses as evidence.
Write 300-400 words. Email to me and to your group.
Come to class with one or two good questions/criticisms/comments about the lecture, which we can use for discussion.