Midterm report presentations

If your name is not here and you don't have a preference (or if your preferences were already taken), I'll assign your report topic & date by Monday the 16th.

Everyone will do a midterm report presentation (and later a final report presentation.)

We'll do two or three 10 minute presentations per class (each followed by a few minutes of discussion). Tell us something about your topic that we won't have read in our assigned texts, and prompt us with a discussion question or two. Indicate your first and second choices in the comments space below, beginning Sep 10. 

Fantasyland (FL), How the World Thinks, (HWT), Question Everything (QE), and Night Vision (NV) are available for 3-day checkout at the Walker Library circulation desk. Also, many of the QE essays are available online at the NYTimes.

First come, first served.

If you're presenting on a nice Fall day, consider taking us outside. Try not to rely on powerpoint (etc.)  technology (but if you do, post a link to the presentation on our site in advance.)

SEP 19

• Montaigne
• Something in FL ch 13-14 or HWT 14-15 - #H1 Coven Gallers
• Something in QE Part I - What does it mean to be human? - #H2 Maheswari Ramesh; #H3 Braden Clapper
• Marcus Aurelius - #H2 Aidin Card

SEP 24

• Spinoza - #H1 Christian; #H2 Aidan Taylor; #H3 Evan B.
• Something in FL 15-16 or HWT 16-17 - #H2 Maria Lassiter
• Something in QE Part II - Is Democracy Possible - #H3 Floris O.

SEP 26

• David Hume - #H1 Makayla; #H2 Alan Hernandez; #H3 Andrew Brooks
• Something in FL 17-18 or HWT 18-19 - #H3 Roman Phillips 
• Something in QE Part III - Can we believe our eyes? - #H1 Thad Whitfield; #H2 Erick Martínez

OCT 1

• Arthur Schopenhauer - #H2 Bryant Kelly; #H3 Quinny VanDerSlik
• Something in FL 19-20 or HWT 20-22
• Something in QE Part IV - Should speech be free? - #H2 Kat Woodland

OCT 3

• Charles Darwin & evolution - #H1 Zoe Kuhn; #H2 Sawyer Crain; #H3 Andrew Griffith
• Something in FL 21-22 or HWT 23-24
• NV last chapter, on Kierkegaard
• Karl Marx & Socialism - #H1 Faith Carbonari; #H2 Haley Gauda; #H3 Traden Davis

OCT 8

• William James - #H1 Kenji Matsumura; #H2 Elloise Layus
• Friedrich Nietzsche - #H2 Gavin Cooley; #H3 Bobby Goodroe
• Something in FL 23-24 or HWT 25-26
• Something in QE Part V - What is happiness? - #H1 Ella Helms; #H2 Will Stout

OCT 17

• Bertrand Russell - #H1 Hunter Dickson;  #H2 Nick Luse; #H3 Daniel Chera
• Existentialism - #H1 Mai Gibbons; #H2 Sage Robinson; #H3 hadleigh Flowers
• Something in FL 25-26 or HWT 27-28 - #H1 Karim Al-Amin
• Something in QE Part VI - Does life have meaning? - #H1 Amelie; #H2 Liam Conran; #H3 John Owens

OCT 22

• Ludwig Wittgenstein - #H1 John Wise
• Hannah Arendt - #H2 Gino Palilla; #H3 Talan Lynch
• Something from FL 27-28 - #H1 Kayla
• Something in QE Part VII - Why can't we all just get along? - #H1 Ally Brumfield; #H2 Samwaeil Boules

OCT 24

• John Rawls
• Artificial Intelligence - #H1 John Pardue; #H2 Annlee Head; #H3 Jairo Perdomo
• Peter Singer - #H1 Hayden Dye; #H3 Brooke Hale
• Something in QE Part VIII - What is the difference between right and wrong? - #H1 Alayna Frazier; #H3 Hunter Clouthier