The Fall semester officially starts tomorrow with the Fall Convocation - a meet and greet with the incoming class and their families. Next week will, like every first week, be chaos with teaching coupled with getting students back on track with their thesis research. As always, I can't decide whether I'm happy to be back teaching or not!
Teaching load this semester is as follows:
- HON 172: The Human Event (2 sections) - our freshman honors seminar. This semester I'm basically going with what I taught last semester though I've added a little more literature to keep the science-phobes happier. Students will read Galileo, Newton, Kant, Hume, Darwin, Huxley, Doestyevsky, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Dawkins, among others. All good fun.
- BIO 494/HPS 494: Darwin & Design - a small discussion seminar on intelligent design. We're starting with a month spent on the design argument, reading Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Newton, before a month of group work by the students, followed by a month examining aspects of the intelligent design movement. This class basically developed out of my regulat "Origins, Evolution & Creation" course in that I wanted to have students work on some of the more advanced scientific, legal, and philosophical aspects of the ID "controversy."
- I also have four students doing thesis and research work with me.
So that's about it. Things will probably be quiet for a while. Just saying.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
In the post below there is a lot of talk about genius that might rival Newton. I didn't throw down a list of criteria for why I esteem Newton, a lot of this is gestalt intuition anyway, and I'm probably not reflectively totally aware of why I feel the way I do. That being said, someone threw down…
I have not read this book, but I'm interested in finding out more about it. Has anyone out there had a shot at it?
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (Sather Classical Lectures)
Information from Amazon.com: Review
"Sedley's argument is subtle and expert. . . . The brilliance of this…
In an appalling act of bias, Judge Cherie Blair suspended the sentence of a man convicted of assaulting another and breaking his jaw because the assailant was a "religious man". Apparently just being a member of a particular cult is sufficient to get your criminal penalties reduced by a few years…
Reading You Are Dumb's take on Ben Stein and expelled, I found out they have a blog for the movie! I'm so excited, because it's clear that Ben Stein, in his introductory post, shows he's done his research and read the Crank HOWTO. Check it:
Some of the greatest scientists of all time, including…