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==1: SEP 2: Course Introduction==
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==11: OCT 6==
  
:*Welcome - personal introduction and welcome.
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===Assigned===
 
===About the Course (technical information and course management)===
 
:*Course Websites: Wiki & Courses.alfino.org (linked from alfino.org), Sharepoint site (link at main course wiki page).
 
:*Use of pseudonyms - Saints and animals
 
:*Use of peer review and peer evaluation
 
:*Student choice in work and grading scheme - Default grade scheme shows ranges for grade weights.  You will be able to choose optional assignments and assign them weight in your grading scheme.  (See courses.alfino.org)
 
:*Transparency in grade information.  Never give out your Saint name.  Customer service will never ask you for your Saint name. A friendly grade curve gives you good information about your performance while reducing grade stress. 
 
  
===About the Course (course content and research questions)===
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:*Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality" (17)
:*What's so exciting about studying food deeply at this time?  Start a list....
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:*Writing exercise: How WEIRD is Morality?
:*[[Philosophy of Food Course Research Questions]]
 
:*Disciplines represented in the course: gastronomy, food history, bio-history, evolutionary psych, economics, politics, nutrition, microbiology, soil agronomy, food ethics.
 
:*Major Course Topics (see reading list): Microbiome, Macronutrition, Dietary Guidelines, Western Industrial Diet, Gastronomy, Food philosophy, Food Histories, Plant Intelligence, Food and Animal Ethics, Environment and Agriculture, Food and Power, Food and Religion, Organic Diets.
 
  
===Succeeding in the Course and Assignments===
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===Brief Survey on Student Engagement in Hybrid course delivery===
:*Prep Cycle - Monitor time commitments and results early on. 
 
:*Keep Course Research Questions in Mind -
 
:*The best student writing shows the cumulative effect of deep reading, active critical thinking, and reflection.
 
  
*'''Required Assignments and Default Grade Weights for your Grading Scheme'''
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:*Please take the following anonymous [https://gonzaga.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3I98g1ecsTe59ZP survey].
:*Final Paper 10-30%
 
:*Final Essay 10-20%
 
:*Points 50-70%
 
  
*'''Points Assignments'''
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===Final Stage of Sapolsky Writing Assignment===
:*1. Student Food biographies (5) Assigned 9/1, due 9/9
 
:*2. USDGS and Me (10) Assigned 9/16, due 9/18
 
:*3. Carbohydrate Worksheet (10) Assigned 10/5
 
:*4. Culinary Cosmos Pantry Photos (5) Assigned and due 10/7
 
:*5. Assessing Agriculture 600 words (20) Peer reviewed: Assigned 10/21, writing due 10/23, reviews due 10/28, backevals due TBD
 
:*6. Fats Worksheet (10) Assigned and due 10/28
 
:*7. Ethics of Eating (20) 800 words Peer reviewed: Assigned 11/4, writing due 11/8, reviews due 11/15, backevals due TBD
 
:*8. Proteins Worksheet (10) Assigned and due 11/9
 
  
===Food Biographies - (Points, ungraded, short writing, reflection) ===
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:*'''Stage 4''': Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgKCYITDTSOOHcvC3TAVNK-EZDsP4jiiyPj-7jdpRoNUsLPA/viewform?usp=sf_link].  '''Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino.'''  Up to 10 points, in Points.
  
:*Please write a paragraph in answer to the following questions by '''September 9, 2020, 11:59pm.'''
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::*Back evaluations are due '''Thursday, October 8, 11:59pm'''.
  
::*Topic: What kind of eater are you? How would you describe your relationship to food?
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===Some samples from Henrich's, "The Weirdest People on Earth"===
  
:*Here are some prompts for you to consider as you prepare your food biographies:
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:*p. 25: "Who Am I?" task. Show charts
::*How would you describe your diet? What categories of foods will you eat or notOn principle or preference?
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:*p. 28: sociocentric vs. individualistic
::*Do you like foods related to your ethnicity?  Do you cook?
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:*p. 34: guilt vs. shame
::*How important or prominent is food in your memory as a child or your current life or both?
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:*p. 44: impersonal honesty research (recall Ariely).  
::*Do you engage in food related social media activity?
 
::*Are you a good cook?  Do you dance when you cook?
 
::*Did your parents or guardians cook from scratch for you?  Did they cook?  Did you learn to cook?
 
::*How knowledgeable are you about nutrition? Is your experience of food connected to concerns about nutrition and dietary disease or not so much?
 
  
:**[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZ4Tb0aeYnbRQ5bFHbq1kaHYRCj6vq_VW2fEhikmCgViXttQ/viewform?usp=sf_link Follow this link to a google form when you are ready to post].
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===Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality"===
  
===To Do List from 1st Day===
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====WEIRD Morality====
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:*WEIRD morality is the morality of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic cultures
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::*just as likely to be bothered by taboo violations, but more likely to set aside feelings of disgust and allow violations
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::*only group with majority allowing chicken story violation.
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::*"the weirder you are the more likely you are to see the world in terms of separate objects, rather than relationships"  "sociocentric" moralities vs. individualistic moralities; Enlightenment moralities of Kant and Mill are rationalist, individualist, and universalist. 
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::*survey data on East/West differences in sentence completion: "I am..."
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::*framed-line task 97
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:*Kantian and Millian ethical thought is rationalist, rule based, and universalist.  Just the ethical theory you would expect from the culture. 
  
:*Make sure you can find the three course websites and that you understand what information and tools each provides.
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====A 3 channel moral matrix====
:*Fill out the first day food survey (on main course wiki page)
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:*Schweder's anthropology: ethics of autonomy, community, divinity 99-100 - gloss each...
:*Fill out "Roster Information" form (on main course wiki page)
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::*claims Schweder's theory predicts responses on taboo violation tests, is descriptively accurate.
:*Browse the top 8 links on the main course wiki page
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::*ethic of divinity: body as temple vs. playground
:*Look out for readings attached to an emailYou will need these for our next class
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::*vertical dimension to values.  explains reactions to flag desecration, piss Christ, thought exp: desecration of liberal icons.  (Note connection to contemporary conflicts, such as the Charlie Hebdot massacre.)
:*Email me if you would like to attend class in person next time.
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:*Keep an eye out for Food News!
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====Making Sense of Moral/Cultural Difference====
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:*'''Haidt's Bhubaneswar experience''': diverse (intense) continua of moral values related to purity. (opposite of disgust). Confusing at first, but notice that he started to like his hosts (elephant) and then started to think about how their values might work.  Stop and think about how a mind might create this.  Detail about airline passenger.
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:*Theorizing with Paul Rozin on the right model for thinking about moral foundations: "Our theory, in brief" (103)
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:*American politics often about sense of "sacrilege", not just about defining rights (autonomy).  Not just harm, but types of moral disgust.
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:*'''Stepping out of the Matrix''':  H's metaphor for seeing his own cultural moral values as more "contingent" than before, when it felt like the natural advocacy of what seem true and right.  Reports growing self awareness of liberal orientation of intellectual culture in relation to Shweder's viewSocial conservatives made more sense to him after studying in India.
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===Small Group Discussion===
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:*Discussion questions:
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::*Does it make sense to talk about "stepping out of a matrix"?  Is this a temporary thing?  What value might it have in your experience?
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::*Do you have a parallel story to Haidt's?  (Mention travel experiences.)

Latest revision as of 19:51, 6 October 2020

11: OCT 6

Assigned

  • Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality" (17)
  • Writing exercise: How WEIRD is Morality?

Brief Survey on Student Engagement in Hybrid course delivery

  • Please take the following anonymous survey.

Final Stage of Sapolsky Writing Assignment

  • Stage 4: Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [1]. Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino. Up to 10 points, in Points.
  • Back evaluations are due Thursday, October 8, 11:59pm.

Some samples from Henrich's, "The Weirdest People on Earth"

  • p. 25: "Who Am I?" task. Show charts
  • p. 28: sociocentric vs. individualistic
  • p. 34: guilt vs. shame
  • p. 44: impersonal honesty research (recall Ariely).

Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality"

WEIRD Morality

  • WEIRD morality is the morality of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic cultures
  • just as likely to be bothered by taboo violations, but more likely to set aside feelings of disgust and allow violations
  • only group with majority allowing chicken story violation.
  • "the weirder you are the more likely you are to see the world in terms of separate objects, rather than relationships" "sociocentric" moralities vs. individualistic moralities; Enlightenment moralities of Kant and Mill are rationalist, individualist, and universalist.
  • survey data on East/West differences in sentence completion: "I am..."
  • framed-line task 97
  • Kantian and Millian ethical thought is rationalist, rule based, and universalist. Just the ethical theory you would expect from the culture.

A 3 channel moral matrix

  • Schweder's anthropology: ethics of autonomy, community, divinity 99-100 - gloss each...
  • claims Schweder's theory predicts responses on taboo violation tests, is descriptively accurate.
  • ethic of divinity: body as temple vs. playground
  • vertical dimension to values. explains reactions to flag desecration, piss Christ, thought exp: desecration of liberal icons. (Note connection to contemporary conflicts, such as the Charlie Hebdot massacre.)

Making Sense of Moral/Cultural Difference

  • Haidt's Bhubaneswar experience: diverse (intense) continua of moral values related to purity. (opposite of disgust). Confusing at first, but notice that he started to like his hosts (elephant) and then started to think about how their values might work. Stop and think about how a mind might create this. Detail about airline passenger.
  • Theorizing with Paul Rozin on the right model for thinking about moral foundations: "Our theory, in brief" (103)
  • American politics often about sense of "sacrilege", not just about defining rights (autonomy). Not just harm, but types of moral disgust.
  • Stepping out of the Matrix: H's metaphor for seeing his own cultural moral values as more "contingent" than before, when it felt like the natural advocacy of what seem true and right. Reports growing self awareness of liberal orientation of intellectual culture in relation to Shweder's view. Social conservatives made more sense to him after studying in India.

Small Group Discussion

  • Discussion questions:
  • Does it make sense to talk about "stepping out of a matrix"? Is this a temporary thing? What value might it have in your experience?
  • Do you have a parallel story to Haidt's? (Mention travel experiences.)