Midterm report presentations

Here's the sign-up sheet. We're scheduled to begin presentations on Feb.13 but if anyone would like to volunteer to go earlier (the 6th or the 11th) that would be great. Might even earn you a base or two on the scorecard.

Indicate your date/topic preference(s) in the comments' space below (include your section #); select from the listed philosophers or from something in one of the recommended texts on reserve at the library circulation desk--Fantasyland (FL), How the World Thinks (HWT), Question Everything (QE). They, and other recommended texts, are on reserve at the circulation desk. You can check them out. Select a topic not already selected by a classmate in your section.

Your presentation should be about ten minutes, plus discussion. You can do a powerpoint if you wish, you can show a short video clip, OR NOT. If you're comfortable speaking from notes, from an outline or a prepared text, OR just extemporaneously, that's fine. (But just in case it's a fine day when you're scheduled to present, be prepared to take the class outside. Don't tie yourself too tightly to powerpoint etc. Have a Plan B.)

Give us a discussion question or two, and lead the discussion. We'll schedule no more than three presentations per class (so if three requests in your section have already been placed, on a given date, select another). 

You can record your presentation in the library's MakerSpace if you wish, and show us the recording... but you will still need to be present to answer questions and lead discussion on your assigned presentation day. 

And you can use the MakerSpace practice booth to prepare, as well. 

Also: consider making an appointment with the Writing Center for help in smoothing your presentation. And remember that your personal librarian (Rachel.Kirk@mtsu.edu) is standing by to assist.

"Rubric"--give us ten good minutes of relevant talk about your subject, beginning from the premise that your audience knows only what we've been assigned to read about it in our required texts. Do a bit of additional research to tell us something we wouldn't have read there. If you do that, and get us talking, you'll get all 25 available points.

This should be a fun assignment. Learning in general should be fun. If it's not, you're doing it wrong.

FEB

6 Marcus Aurelius - #6 Tyler R.

Augustine-

Boethius-

Aquinas-

FL 9-10 or HWT 9-10-

11 Machiavelli - #5 Aaron M. #6 Josh S.

Hobbes- #6 Jessica L.

FL 11-12 or HWT 11-13-

Something in QE Part I - What does it mean to be human?-

13 Montaigne-

Descartes- #7 Nate G.

Pascal-

FL 13-14 or HWT 14-15-

18 Spinoza-

Locke-

FL 15-16 or HWT 16-17-

Something in QE Part I - What does it mean to be human?-

20 Berkeley-

Leibniz-

Hume-

Rousseau-

FL 17-18 or HWT 18-19-

25 Kant-

Bentham-

Hegel-

Schopenhauer-

FL 19-20 or HWT 20-22-

27 J.S. Mill- #6 Patrick S.

Charles Darwin & evolution- #7 Jonathan Dopp

Kierkegaard-

Karl Marx and revolutionary socialism- #6 Holland K. #7 Claire M.

FL 21-22 or HWT 23-24-

MAR

4 William James-

Nietzsche-

FL 23-24 or HWT 25-26-

Something in QE Part III - Can we believe our eyes?-

Spring Break

18 Russell-

Sartre-

Simone de Beauvoir-

Camus-

FL 25-26 or HWT 27-28-

20 Wittgenstein-

Hannah Arendt-

FL 27-28-

Something in QE Part IV - Should speech be free?-

Something in QE Part V - What is happiness?-

25 John Rawls-

Alan Turing-

Peter Singer-

FL 29-32-