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: Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (Existentialism)
Week of October 14:  Bertrand Russell (Logic and Russell's Paradox)
NO CLASSES (October 17 - 21) 
Week of October 21: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Logical Language and Language Games)
Week of October 28: John Rawls (Theory of Justice) 
Week of November 4: Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition)
Week of November 11: Henri Bergson (Time and Free Will)
Week of November 18: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism and Individualism)
 
Class Loop Resets!

Week of November 25: Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Thales, Anaximander, Anaxigoras) 
Week of December 1: Heraclitus (Flux and Opposition)
Week of December 8: Parmenides (Monism)
Week of December 15: Socrates (Intro)
Week of December 22: Socrates/Plato (The Apology)
Week of December 29: Plato's Republic