Philosophy '09-10

September 2009
2
Wednesday
Computers, Caves & Oracles-Neo & Socrates
4
Friday
The Matrix Possibility
9
Wednesday
Seinfeld & Socrates-The Unexamined Life
9
Wednesday
The Presocratics Oral Presentation
11
Friday
The Death of Socrates & Christ
11
Friday
The Greeks Oral Presentation
14
Monday
Unit 1 Test: Introduction to Philosophy
15
Tuesday
Finding Platform 9 3/4 - The Idea of a Different Reality
16
Wednesday
Space, Time & Magic (Harry Potter)
18
Friday
Hume's Epistemology Oral Presentation
18
Friday
I Think I Disagree: Skepticism, Epistemology & the Beatles
21
Monday
Truthiness, Self-Deception, and Intuitive Knowledge
23
Wednesday
The Philosophy of Government Oral Presentation
23
Wednesday
Skepticism, Morality & the Matrix Article
25
Friday
Unit 2 Test: What Do We Really Know?
28
Monday
Why Be a Superhero? Why Be Moral?
29
Tuesday
Magic, Science & the Ethics of Technology (Harry Potter)
29
Tuesday
John Stuart Mill Oral Presentation
30
Wednesday
Kant's Ethics Oral Pres.
30
Wednesday
Virtue Ethics & TV's Seinfeld
October 2009
1
Thursday
Should Steroids Be Banned?
2
Friday
Bart Simpson - Nietzsche & the Virtues of Being Bad
5
Monday
The Moral Duties of the Super-Powerful and the Super-Heroic
6
Tuesday
The Simpsons and Morality - A Kantian Perspective Article;
7
Wednesday
Seinfeld & the Moral Life
9
Friday
Unit 3 Test: The Ultimate Moral Code;
12
Monday
Philosophy of Economics Oral Presentation
12
Monday
You Say You Want a Revolution: Marx & the Beatles
13
Tuesday
You Say You’ve Got Everything You Want: The Beatles & Critique of Consumer Culture
16
Friday
Ned Flanders & Neighborly Love
20
Tuesday
Geo. Wil. Friedrich Hegel Pres.
21
Wednesday
The Prophecy Driven Life - Fate & Freedom at Hogwarts (H. Potter)
22
Thursday
Fate, Freedom & Foreknowledge in the Matrix
23
Friday
The Mirror of Erised Article
26
Monday
Unit 4 Test: Free Will
27
Tuesday
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Presentation
28
Wednesday
Identity Questions: Is the Hulk the Same Person as Bruce Banner?
29
Thursday
Why Voldemart Won't Die Already – What Wizards Can Teach Us About Personal Identity
30
Friday
Machine-Made Ghost - Or, the Philosophy of the Mind, Matrix Style
November 2009
2
Monday
Getting Better: The Beatles & Virtue Ethics
4
Wednesday
Thomas More Oral Presentation
4
Wednesday
Homer Simpson & Aristotle
5
Thursday
Unit 5 Test: What is a Person?
6
Friday
All You Need is Love (Beatles): Hegel, Love & Community
9
Monday
Heaven, Hell & Harry Potter
10
Tuesday
Nihilism & The Matrix
12
Thursday
Thomas Aqunias Oral Presentation
17
Tuesday
William of Ockham Oral Presentation
19
Thursday
A Skewed Reflection - The Nature of Evil (Harry Potter)
20
Friday
Unit 6 Test: Death
23
Monday
Religion & The Matrix - The Problem of Pluralism
24
Tuesday
Mr. Burns, Satan & Happiness
30
Monday
Bertrand Russell Oral Presentation
December 2009
7
Monday
Seinfeld’s Cosmo Kramer & Kierkegaard
7
Monday
Soren Kierkegaard Oral Presenation
8
Tuesday
Friedrich Nietzsche Oral Presentation
9
Wednesday
The Final Episode of Seinfeld - Is Doing Nothing Something?
10
Thursday
Unit 7 Test: God & Religion
11
Friday
Eastern Philosophy Oral Pres.
11
Friday
Realizing It’s All W/I You: The Beatles - Surrogate Gurus of East. Phil.
14
Monday
Confucianism Oral Presentation
14
Monday
A Buddhist Mirror: There Is No Spoon
15
Tuesday
Why Maggie Simpson Matters
16
Wednesday
The Beatles as Nietzsche’s Music-Playing Socrates
17
Thursday
Existentialism Oral Presentation
17
Thursday
Existentialism in Monty Python
January 2010
5
Tuesday
Take a Sad Song & Make it Better: The Beatles & Pstmdrn. Thght.
12
Tuesday
My Philosophy on Life Project Presentations
13
Wednesday
My Philosophy on Life Project Presentations
14
Thursday
My Philosophy on Life Project Presentations
15
Friday
My Philosophy on Life Project Presentations
21
Thursday
My Philosophy on Life Project Presentations