Philosophy and Critical Thinking: Ongoing Weekly (13-18 Teens)

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:

Please message me with any questions on my schedule. Some classes are a little out of order due to parent requests. I try to be flexible and meet parental/student demands. 

Week of December 22: Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes) 
Week of December 29: Heraclitus (Flux and Opposition)
Week of January 5: Parmenides & Zeno 
Week of January 12:  Diotima, Aspasia, and Hipparchia 
Week of January 19:  Socrates (Intro) 
Week of January 26: Socrates/Plato (The Apology)
Week of February 2: Plato's Forms & Republic (Allegory of the Cave) 
Week of February 9: Aristotle's Virtue Ethics 
Week of February 16: Aristotle's Four Causes and Other Insights
Week of February 23: Epicurus's Hedonism 
Week of March 2: Ancient Skepticism
Week of March 9: Ancient Stoicism 
Week of March 16: Philosophy of Language (The Problem of Universals in Ancient Greece)
Week of March 23: Ancient Greek Cynicism
Week of March 30: Ancient Greek Theories of Freewill and Determinism 
Week of April 6: Augustine of Hippo 
Week of April 13: John Buridan
Week of April 20: Roger Bacon
Week of April 27: Francis Bacon (Science and Theory of the Idols)
Week of May 4: Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan, Social Contract Theory)
Week of May 11: John Locke (Liberalism)
Week of May 18: Mary Wollstonecraft (Feminism)
Week of May 25: Rene Descartes (Mind-Body Problem)
Week of June 1: More Descartes and Intro to Hume
Week of June 8:  David Hume 
Week of June 15: Benedict de Spinoza 
Week of June 22: Immanuel Kant 
Week of June 29: G.W.F. Hegel
Week of July 6: Karl Marx 
Week of July 13: Jeremy Bentham & J.S. Mill (Utilitarianism)
Week of July 20: Arthur Schopenhauer (Pessimism)
Week of July 27: Friedrich Nietzsche (Optimism) 
Week of August 3: Bertrand Russell 
Week of August 10: Ludwig Wittgenstein 
Week of August 17: Martin Heidegger (Authenticity & Being)
Week of August 24: Hannah Arendt (Banality of Evil, Justice)
Week of August 31: John Rawls (Theory of Justice as Fairness) 
Week of September 7: Henri Bergson (Time and Free Will)
Week of September 14: Gilles Deleuze (Difference) 
Week of September 21: William James (Pragmatism)
Week of September 28: W.E.B Du Bois (Double Consciousness and Racism)
Week of October 5: Simone de Beauvoir (Existentialism) 
Week of October 12: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism & Individualism)
Week of October 19: Judith Butler (Gender and The Force of Nonviolence) 
Week of October 26: Alan Turing and John Searle on AI 
Week of November 2: Jacques Derrida (Presence) 
Week of November 9: Judith Jarvis Thomson (Ethics and the Trolley Problem) 
Week of November 16: Robert Nozick (Experience Machine & Criticism of Hedonism) 
Week of November 23: Noam Chomsky (Linguistics and Anarcho-Syndicalism)
Week of November 30: Daniel Dennet (Free Will & Chmess)