Wednesday, August 31, 2016

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, August 30, 2016

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?

Monday, August 29, 2016

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!

Sunday, August 21, 2016

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