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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

MIDTERM REPORT PRESENTATIONS

Declare your topic by Feb. 6, in a comment below this post. Indicate whether you're interested in collaborating with a classmate or prefer to do a solo report.

You can do a solo report or team up with a classmate. I suggest anchoring your report to a specific text, something we're not already reading as a class. 

Talk to us for about 10 minutes and lead discussion. Give us a short (3 or 4 questions) quiz over your report and a couple of discussion questions. Your quiz should cover the presentation and anything you'd care to post and have us look at in advance. Your quiz questions are eligible for inclusion on the first exam.

Feb 11 - Ed, "The Blackstone Sermon"

Feb 13 - Jamil - The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology

Feb 18 - Heather, Death & secular meaning/Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

Feb 20 - Crystal, Nietzsche

Feb 25 - Cooper, On Humanism. 
           -  Ben, Identifying parallels between social oppression and control by religious institutions with "Woke Culture".

[We're not meeting on Feb 27, I'll be at a conference]

Mar 3 - Jessica, Camus: Myth of Sisyphus/Sartre: Existentialism Is a Humanism.

Mar 5 - Makayla Barrett : Thoughts on Sadhguru 

Spring Break

Mar 17 - How An Atheist Finds Meaning, Sheala Carpenter

Mar 19 - Patricia Hummel: The Reason Revolution by Dan Dana

Mar 24 - Debria Tyler Can Creationism and science coexist? 

10 comments:

  1. I would like to do mine over Nietzsche on the 20th please

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  2. I would like to do my presentation on the Atheist/secular perspective on death and how that does or doesn't impact the meaning of one's life. I may use Mortality by Christopher Hitchens as an anchoring text.

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  3. Feb 13th - Jamil - The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology

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  4. March 3rd please--
    Either Camus: Myth of Sisyphus or Sartre: Existentialism Is a Humanism. I'll narrow it once I get into them.

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    1. Don't feel obliged to narrow entirely, the crosstalk between Camus and Sartre might be instructive.

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  5. I would like to do mine on Sadhguru on March 5th if possible.

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  6. Feb. 25 if it is still available :)
    I would like to discuss "On Humanism" by Richard Norman

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  7. I would like march 5th and my topic is about why evolution is false even without the bible.

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  8. I'm assuming we're allowed to choose a day someone else is also presenting on? If so - I would like to do a presentation on how Atheists find meaning using the text "Life Driven Purpose" by Dan Barker as an anchor.

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  9. Ben Trent, Feb. 25

    Identifying parallels between social oppression and control by religious institutions with "Woke Culture".

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