Summer!

Well, summer has arrived. I am convinced. We have not put our plants in the ground yet but today or tomorrow we will start. I have been watering the "lawn". Only one course has started since one of my two online courses had low enrollment and so I elected to change it to a five week course starting the second session. So far it still has low enrollment so please encourage folks interested in taking Intro to Philosophy to sign up for section PHIL_A201_592_51962. I am also looking forward to moving my office to Eagle River this summer so I am ready for Fall courses at the UAA building in Eagle River. I will be teaching three sections for the Alaska Middle College School. This should also mean I will be walking to work! I will still have one section at UAA main campus on Monday evening. So far this summer I have been trying to catch up on my reading. All of those books I checked out this Spring I am going through bit by bit and posting my thoughts on my Amazon Vine page. So I split my time from reading in the office and reading on the back deck at home. My hope is to stay a fluent speaker of many disciplines.

As of this moment I have graded all papers in my inbox. If you have not received a response to something you sent me please email me back and check on it. If you have anything still left to do I will still take work through the 7th. Please do a good job with it but hurry! I will actually calculate the grades based on what I have on Wednesday evening when I enter them.

This morning in Truth Beauty Goodness the question was "what do you think motivated the brothers to attack at the Boston marathon?"

The quiz question for Intro to Philosophy this morning was: Have you ever been Saved? What does the expression "Saved" mean to you? (I discussed this in the context described by Josiah Royce in his book "The Sources of Religious Insight"). For Intro to Humanities II the quiz question today was for you to pick the animal that you would imagine as illustrative of your own personal characteristics. (This based on the description of the imagination we need to be successful in David Brooks TED talk on the Social Animal.)

For Truth Beauty Goodness the quiz question was to contrast your cognitive map with mine: http://wsjamison.uaa.alaska.edu/quest/cmap.htm Today the quiz question for Intro to Philosophy was concerned with the relationship between Wagner and Nietzsche, and what did you think of Wagner?

Today the quiz question for Intro to Philosophy was concerned with the relationship between Wagner and Nietzsche, and what did you think of Wagner? In Intro to Humanities II the quiz question concerned what you thought of Basile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57uH0lYIVe0

For Truth Beauty and Goodness today the quiz question was what is the metanarrative of CREAM?