Thursday classes

For the morning Introduction to Philosophy today the quiz question is one of my favorites. It is the hypothetical situation where Jesus comes to your door, you know absolutely He is God and He asks you to sell all you have, give the money to the poor, and go follow Him. Would you go? Or would you argue with Him? Interesting. For my Ancient and Medieval Philosophy class the quiz question is to go ahead and look at the list here on the blog below and see if you can pick one that you might like to do your term paper on. Keep in mind you should use that philosopher to see how they throw light on the ancient and medieval traditions - if they do. I am not sure how this is going to work out! So you guys are breaking new territory here. For my evening Introduction to Philosophy class there are two quiz questions. First: what are the ten commandments. Two: the hypothetical situation where Jesus comes to your door, you know absolutely He is God and He asks you to sell all you have, give the money to the poor, and go follow Him. Would you go? Or would you argue with Him?

Philosophers for Term Papers

For Introduction to Philosophy and Ancient and Medieval Philosophy here is the list of philosophers I would prefer you consider for your term paper assignment. Keep in mind that you could use one of these to see how they interpret one of the ancient or medieval philosophers for the term paper in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Living Philosophers Charles Murray https://www.aei.org/scholar/charles-murray/ Thomas Metzinger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Metzinger Owen Flanagan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Flanagan Joseph Margolis http://www.cla.temple.edu/philosophy/faculty/joseph-margolis/ Peter Sloterdijk http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113387/peter-sloterdijks-philosophy-gives-reasons-living Jurgen Habermas http://www.egs.edu/library/juergen-habermas/biography/ Sam Harris http://www.samharris.org/ Charles Taylor http://www.thenation.com/article/162667/sentimentality-or-honesty-charles-taylor# Alister McGrath http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mcgrath/ Daniel Dennett http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/index.html Martha Nussbaum http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/nussbaum/ Slavoj Zizek http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/biography/ Alain Badiou http://www.egs.edu/faculty/alain-badiou/biography/ Peter Singer https://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/ David Chalmers http://consc.net/chalmers/ Judith Butler http://www.egs.edu/faculty/judith-butler/biography/ Fredric Jameson http://literature.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=812&subpage=profile A.C. Grayling http://www.acgrayling.com/ Anthony Kenny http://www.europaeum.org/europaeum/?q=node/1239 Philip Kitcher http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/philip-kitcher Frances Fukuyama http://fukuyama.stanford.edu/ Steven Pinker http://stevenpinker.com/ Mary Warnock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Warnock,_Baroness_Warnock Cornel West http://www.cornelwest.com/ Douglas Hofstadter http://www.soic.indiana.edu/people/profiles/hofstadter-douglas.shtml Susan Haack Tariq Ramadan Reza Aslan Bernard-Henri Levy Umberto Eco Patricia Churchland Paul Churchland Richard Dawkins Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) Alvin Carl Plantinga Hans Kung Alasdair MacIntyre Completely Dead but still relatively recent philosophers Hilary Putnam http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/putnam.html Michel Foucault Edward Said Vine Deloria Jr. C. S. Lewis Richard Rorty John Rawls Robert Nozick Ronald Dworkin Hans-Georg Gadamer

Wednesday Logic

Today the quiz question was what do you think is the main difference between men and women? If you are interested here is an interesting panel discussion on the topic: what next for feminism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dje0Dm7LLS4

Tuesday classes

Today for Introduction to Philosophy the quiz question was what are the ten commandments? For Ancient and Medieval Philosophy the quiz question was if you were Agamemnon would you have killed your daughter?

Introduction to Logic First lecture

Today I mostly introduced myself, the course, and some interesting aspects of Logic. The quiz question for today was: does the earth go around the sun or does the sun go around the earth? Email me your thoughts!

Ideas for Monday

These are my notes for Monday when I am going to meet with new AMCS students at the CERC. Things to cover are Typical topics for discussion include, but are not limited to: Time Management - stress time reading. Becoming fluent in subject vocabulary. Professionalism: Email communication, behavior, and first impressions Plagiarism Tutoring The Writing Process

Email change

As part of the changes being made by the University of Alaska system the email addresses are being changed to one G-Mail system. My email address is changed from wsjamison@uaa.alaska.edu to wsjamison@alaska.edu Notice I also have a regular G-Mail address that I used when starting this blog and it remains the address under which this blog is registered and shown. I do get email using both. As far as I can tell, apart from having to switch programs to run my email and learn to live with the differences, there is no other difference.