哲学と批判的思考：毎週継続中（8～13歳プレティーン）

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, vacation days, Dr. Appointments, etc. I try to be flexible to meet demand. 

Week of March 30: Francis Bacon (Science and Theory of the Idols) 
Week of April 6: Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan, Social Contract Theory)
Week of April 13: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Social Corruption by Civilization) 
Week of April 20: John Locke (Liberalism)
Week of April 27: Adam Smith
Week of May 4: Mary Wollstonecraft (Feminism)
Week of May 11: Rene Descartes (Mind-Body Problem)
Week of May 18: David Hume 
Week of May 25: Benedict de Spinoza
Week of June 1: Immanuel Kant 
Week of June 8: G.W.F. Hegel
Week of June 15: Karl Marx 
Week of June 22: Jeremy Bentham & J.S. Mill (Utilitarianism)
Week of June 29: Arthur Schopenhauer (Pessimism)
Week of July 6: Friedrich Nietzsche (Optimism)
Week of July 13: Bertrand Russell 
Week of July 20: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Week of July 27: Martin Heidegger (Authenticity & Being)
Week of August 3: Hannah Arendt (Banality of Evil, Justice)
Week of August 10: John Rawls (Theory of Justice as Fairness)
Week of August 17: Henri Bergson (Time and Free Will)
Week of August 24: Gilles Deleuze (Difference)
Week of August 31: William James (Pragmatism)
Week of September 7: W.E.B Du Bois (Double Consciousness and Racism)
Week of September 14: Simone de Beauvoir (Existentialism) 
Week of September 21: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism & Individualism)
Week of September 28: Judith Butler (Gender and The Force of Nonviolence) 
Week of October 5: Alan Turing and John Searle on AI 
Week of October 12: Jacques Derrida (Presence)
Week of October 19: Judith Jarvis Thomson (Ethics and the Trolley Problem)
Week of October 26: Robert Nozick (Experience Machine & Criticism of Hedonism) 
Week of November 2: Noam Chomsky (Linguistics and Anarcho-Syndicalism)
Week of November 9: Daniel Dennet (Free Will & Chmess)