Each week I will present on a unique philosophical topic and then have the students discuss the topic of the week. We will cover topics including current events, logic, ethics, history of philosophy, debate, fallacies, and more. My primary teaching method uses PowerPoint slides along with questions meant to encourage engagement from the students. I also ask that the students come up with their own arguments in order to practice using logic to be convincing. I am open to any suggestions from students regarding the topic that we will discuss each week. Here is what the current schedule looks like:

 
Week of November 11: W.E.B Du Bois (Double Consciousness & Race)
Week of November 18: Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition)
Week of November 25: Henri Bergson (Time and Free Will)
Week of December 1: John Searle and Alan Turing (Philosophy of AI) 
Week of December 8: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism and Individualism)
Week of December 15: Judith Butler (Gender and The Force of Peace)

Class Resets! Return to Ancient Philosophy 

Week of December 22: Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Thales, Anaximander, Anaxigoras) 
Week of December 29: Heraclitus (Flux and Opposition)
Week of January 5: Parmenides (Monism)
Week of January 12: Socrates (Intro)
Week of January 19: Socrates/Plato (The Apology)
Week of January 26: Plato's Republic & Euthyphro (Justice and The State)
Week of February 2: Aristotle's Virtue Ethics 
Week of February 9: Aristotle's Four Causes and Other Insights 
Week of February 16: Epicurus's Hedonism 
Week of February 23: Ancient Stoicism 
Week of March 2: Pyrrhonian Skepticism