Majors Seminar Reading and Presentation Schedule

SEP 13

• Overbye, Dennis, "Don't Let Them Tell you You're Not at the Center of the Universe," [1]
• Stafford, William, "A Way of Writing"
• Dillard, Annie, "Living Like Weasels"

• Lakoff and Johnson, "How Philosophical Theories Work," from Philosophy in the Flesh
• Review article of Philosophy in the Flesh [2]
• Introduction to Philosophy in the Flesh with additional review [3]

• Baggini & Fosl, Table of Contents. Please Print this for class next week

• Crawford, Matthew, The World Beyond Your Head, "Introduction"

• Dennett, Daniel, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, "Introduction"

SEP 20

• News and Research Reports
• Alfino

• Scheduled Readings

• Crawford, Chs. 2-3
• Dennett, Ch2, Sections 1-6

SEP 27

• News and research reports

• Readings

• Crawford, Chapters 3 and 4
• Dennett, Chapter 2, Sections 7-12
• Pinker, Intro, Chapters 1 & 2

• Presentations

• Ally - Hadot
• Evan - Some initial finds on animal consciousness.

OCT 4

• News and research reports

• Readings

• Dennett, Chapter 3, sections 13-18
• Pinker, Chapter 3
• Crawford, Chapter 5

• Presentations

OCT 11

• News and research reports

• Westacott, The Wisdom of Frugality (a new book out by a friend)
• EWU conference
• Northwest conference this weekend
• Some data on superpowers
• Community member calls in with Happiness piece text from happiness email from retiree

• Read Smith, Chapter 1 "An Unsettling Question"

• Workshop on A Philosophic Case: Andrew Smith's argument in A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism
• let's look at both the writing style and argument structure in this overview chapter. I'll try fill in from the book.

• Elizabeth on Pet Abolitionists.

• Ali on Hermeneutics?

• Something on why theories of meaning matter.

• Read Crawford, "Brief History of Freedom" pp. 115-123

OCT 18

• News and research reports

• Rambo, Shelly. "Refiguring Wounds in the Afterlife (of Trauma)" (Presenter, Ali R)

• Back to Dennett

• context and summary - Alfino
• Section 19: Evan
• Section 20: Ali R
• Section 21: Elizabeth
• Section 22: Eric
• Section 23: Ally C

• Please try to present your section, but also connect it to the general point of view Dennett is suggesting.

• Crawford, Chapters 6 & 7 (Ali R)

• Also, please try to read the NYRB article by Jacob Weisberg, "They've Got You, Wherever You Are" [<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/facebook-advertising-wherever-you-are/>]

OCT 25

• News and research reports

• Crawford, Chapters 8, 9, 10

• Looking for volunteer presenters.

• Pinker, Chapter 4, "The Web, the Tree and the String" 1st 1/2 of the chapter

• The goal here is to come to class with one or two points from this reading that you found helpful.

• Dennett, pp. 107-150, Sections 24-27

• Section 24, "The Seven Secrets of Computer Power Revealed". On this section, I'd like to see if we can each write 1-3 sentences summarizing his point.
• Section 25, "Virtual Machines"
• Section 26, "Algorithms" Elizabeth
• Section 27, "Automating the Elevator"

• Volunteers needed for Sections 25-27.

NOV 1

• News and research reports

• Crawford, Chs 11 and 12
• Pinker, Chapter 4, "The Web, the Tree and the String" 1st 1/2 of the chapter

• The goal here is to come to class with one or two points from this reading that you found helpful.

• Shick and Vaughn, "The Laboratory of the Mind" (on thought experiments), or read Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on thought experiments.

• come to class with a thought experiment to share.

• Alfino, "Report of the Mission to Observe Colony B"

NOV 8

• News and research reports

NOV 15

• News and research reports

NOV 17

• News and research reports

NOV 22

• Thanksgiving Week: Optional Meeting Time

DEC 6

• News and research reports