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 September 9: Arthur Schopenhauer (Pessimism and The Will to Life)
Week of September 16: Friedrich Nietzsche (Optimism and Living Creatively)
Week of September 23: Sigmund Freud (Civilization and Its Discontents, Subconscious)
Week of September 30:  Hannah Arendt (Banality of Evil and Moral Responsibility)
Week of October 7: John Rawls (Theory of Justice) 
Week of October 14: Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (Existentialism)
NO CLASSES (October 17 - 21) 
Week of October 21: Bertrand Russell (Logic and Russell's Paradox)
Week of October 28: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Logical Language and Language Games)
Week of November 4: American Pragmatism (William James & John Dewey)
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: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism and Individualism)
Week of December 8: Utilitarianism (Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill)
Week of December 15: Criticism of Utilitarianism 

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 
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