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The Academy
February 16, 2018 “The Skeptical World”
Reading #1 E.P. Brandon (2002) Michael Williams and The Hypothetical World
November 3, 2017 “Born This Way”
Reading #1 Saray Ayala (2017) Sexual Orientation and Choice
October 6, 2017 “Testimony and Epistemology”
Reading #1 Robert Audi (2006) Testimony as an A Priori Basis of Acceptance: Problems and Prospects
September 27, 2017 “What is Philosophy Good For?”
Presentation Tim Cowan (Lone Star College Cy-Fair)
March 31, 2017 “Feminist Philosophy”
Reading #1 Lucy Irigaray (1977) The Sex Which is Not One (Chapter 2)
Reading #2 Joreen (1968) The Bitch Manifesto
February 24, 2017 “Feminist Issues”
Reading #1 Simone De Beauvoir (1949) The Second Sex (Introduction)
December 7, 2016 “Failure”
The Academy Presents the 4th Annual QandA
November 16, 2016 “Consciousness”
Reading #1 Thomas Nagel (1971) Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness
October 14, 2016 “Cognition and Moral Status”
Reading #1 Peter Singer (2009) Speciesism and Moral Status
April 27, 2016 “WHY_______?”
The Academy Presents the 9th Annual Symposium
March 25, 2016 “The Tyranny of Guilt”
Reading #1 Pascal Bruckner (2010) Shades of Modesty {chapter 3}
February 26, 2016 “The Tyranny of Guilt”
Reading #1 Pascal Bruckner (2010) Guild Peddlers {chapter 1}
December 2, 2015 “The Meaning of Life”
The Academy Presents the 3rd Annual QandA
October 28, 2015 “Experimental Philosophy”
Reading #1 Joshua Knobe (2010) Person as a Scientist, Person as a Moralist
September 30, 2015 “AI”
Reading #1 Nick Bostrom (2014) The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Reading #2Nick Bostrom (2005) Ethical Principles in the Creation of Artificial Minds
April 27, 2015 “Passion”
The Academy presents The 7th Annual Symposium
March 6, 2015 “Females Reign”
Reading #1 Martha Nussbaum (2003) Beyond the Social Contract: Capabilities and Social Justice
February 18, 2015 “Special Engagement Presentation”
John Corvino “What’s Wrong With Homosexuality?” (Guest Panel to Follow)
February 6, 2015 “Females Reign”
Reading #1 Rosalind Hursthouse (1996) Normative Virtue Ethics
SPRING 2015
Fyodor Dostoesky (1864) Notes From the Underground
December 12, 2014 “The 3rd Night”
Reading #1 John Perry (1978) A Dialogue on Personal Identity
December 3, 2014 “Heroes and Villains”
The Academy Presents The 2nd Annual QandA
October 31, 2014 “The 2nd Night”
Reading #1 John Perry (1978) A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
September 23, 2014 “The 1st Night”
Reading #1 John Perry (1978) A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
April 23, 2014 “Success: Notions of Nirvana”
The Academy Presents the 6th Annual Symposium
March 21, 2014 “Superstition”
February 21, 2014 “Perspective”
Reading #1 Thomas Nagel (1979) Subjective and Objective
January 31, 2014 “America”
Reading #1 David Simon (2013) There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show.
December 6, 2013 “Meme Theory”
Reading #1 Daniel Dennett (2005) The Selfish Gene As A Philosophical Essay
October 23, 2013 “The Future of Humanity”
The Academy Presents The 1st Annual QandA
October 18, 2013 “Courage”
Reading #1 Plato (416 BCE) Laches
September 20, 2013 “The Future of Humanity”
Reading #1 Nick Bostrom (2013) Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority
May 1, 2013 “The Last Lecture”
The Academy Presents the 5th Annual Symposium
April 19, 2013 “Applied Ethics: Education”
Reading #1 Kenneth Bernstein (2013) Warnings from the Trenches
March 22, 2013 “Philosophy of Sex”
Reading #1 Greta Christina (1992) Are We Having Sex Now or What?
Reading #2 Alan Goldman (1977) Plain Sex
February 15, 2013 “Perception”
Reading #1 Casey O’Callaghan (2008) Seeing What You Hear: Cross-Modal Illusions and Perception
December 7, 2012 “Time”
Reading #1 Michael J. Loux (1998) Concrete Particulars II Persistence Through Time
November 30, 2012 “Honors presentations”
(presenter #1) Matt W. 2012, ” A Desconstruction of Aristotle’s Categories”
November 2, 2012 “Language”
Reading #1 Donald Davidson (1996) The Folly of Trying to Define Truth
Reading #2 Kristin Andrews (2002) Interpreting Autism: A Critique of Davidson on Thought and Language
October 10, 2012 “Sci-fi”
Reading #1 Daniel Dennett (1994) Consciousness in Human and Robot Minds
Reading #2 Mary Clayton Coleman (2006) Conscious Fiction
April 25, 2012 “Love”
The Academy Presents the 4th annual symposium.
March 28, 2012 “Death”
(Reading #1) Thomas Nagel (1970) Death
(Reading #2) Bernard Williams (1972) The Marcropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality
March 2, 2012 “Fear”
(Reading #1) Christine Tappolet (2010) Emotion, Motivation, and Action: The Case of Fear
(Reading #2) Alex Neill (1993) Fiction and the Emotions
December 9, 2011 “Honors Presentations”
(Presenter #1) Rosa G. (2011), “Getting out of the Dark”
(Presenter #2) Matt W. (2011), “Wittgenstein and the Blah Blah Blah of Morality”
November 30, 2011 “The Feminist Approach”
(Reading #1) Susan Bordo (1988), “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy”
(Reading #2) Sally Haslanger (1999), “What Knowledge Is and What It Ought to Be: Feminist Values and Normative Epistemology”
October 26, 2011 “ZOMBIES”
(Reading #1) David Chalmers (1993), “Self-ascription without qualia: A case-study”
(Reading #2) Daniel Dennett (1999), “The zombic hunch: Extinction of an intuition?”
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By: ticowan on March 28, 2013
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