Midterm Report Presentations

Declare your date/topic preferences. If your first choice has already been taken in your section, or if there are already two reports scheduled in your section for the date you indicated, please choose again. 

Midterm Report Presentations  (each worth up to 25 points... UPDATE Jan 17: Our weather postponements have pushed the dates all back a week, at this point. We were going to start presentations on Feb. 1, we'll instead plan to start them on Feb. 8. Early volunteers encouraged.)

Indicate your topic & date preference in the comments space below (include your section #; don't request a topic someone else in your section as already selected, or a date that's been selected twice). 

In your presentation, summarize the information about your topic in our text(s), then tell us something interesting you've discovered about it in your research. Give us a discussion question or two, and lead the discussion. 

FL, HWT, and the other non-required texts are available for 3-day checkout at the library reserve desk. Check the philosophy stacks for relevant books. For online research a good place to start is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

 You don't have to post anything to accompany your midterm presentation (though you may); you will need to do a blog post accompanying the final presentation, more on that later. Plan to speak for a minimum of 10 minutes (plus discussion); maximum two (occasionally three, only if necessary) report presentations per class... so again, please don't request a date in your section that's already been selected twice.

FEB

1 8 H1-Hannah, Joseph Smith; Ryan, Augustine. H2-Will, Augustine. H3-Adriana, Augustine; Riley-Boethius

• Augustine (see LHP)
• Boethius (see LHP)
• Something discussed in FL 9-10 (The Great Awakening, Cane Ridge, Joseph Smith,...)  or HWT 9-10 (time, karma,...)

6 13 H1-Nat, Pythagoras; Emma-Hobbes. H2-Katelin, Machiavelli. H3-Shelby-Hobbes; Silas-Machiavelli

• Machiavelli (see LHP)
• Hobbes (see LHP)
• Something discussed in FL 11-12 (magical thinking, miracle cures, pseudoscience, get-rich-quick schemes,...) or HWT 11-13 (Japanese minimalism, Buddhism, naturalism, Taoism, unity in Islam,...)

15 H1-Mera, Descartes; Carly, early conspiracy theories. H2-Eliah, Descartes. Archer, early conspiracy theories. H3-Tessa, Descartes

• Montaigne (see Weiner 14)
• Descartes (see LHP)
• Something discussed in FL 13-14 (early conspiracy theories, civil war & secession fantasies,...)
• Something discussed in HWT 14-15 (scientific reductionism,...)

20  H1-Jocelyn, Buddhism and the self; Jake-Spinoza. H2-Keira, Suburban fantasies; JT-Locke. H3-Kendal, FL 15-16

• Spinoza (see LHP)
• Locke (see LHP)
• Something discussed in FL 15-16 (pastoral & suburban fantasies, P.T. Barnum, snake oil,...) or HWT 16-17 (Buddhism and the self,...)

22  H1-Jackson, Mill; Grace-Leibniz. H2-Nicholas, Rousseau

• Leibniz (see LHP)
• Hume (see LHP)
• Rousseau (see LHP, Weiner 3 & WGU...)

27  H1-Ani, Kant; Allison-Hegel. H2-Spencer, Kant.

• Kant (see LHP)
• Hegel(see LHP)
• Schopenhauer (see LHP & Weiner 5)

29  H1-Jaylin, Darwin; Madison, Marx. H3-Aj, Marx; Dyauni, Darwin. NOTE: This is exam day, we'll have reports if time allows. Otherwise, we'll do these after Spring Break. Or, we can double up on the 27th.

• Mill (see LHP)
• Darwin (see LHP & FL 18, with particular attention to the Scopes Trial)
• Kierkegaard (see LHP)
• Marx (see LHP)