2014 Iowa Lyceum

June 10th - June 14th

 

This year's Lyceum focused on ethics and morality

Each participant received a copy of Professor Russ Shafer-Landau's The Fundamentals of Ethics and a custom design, camp t-shirt!

Professor Russ Shafer-Landau's: The Fundamentals of Ethics

2014 Official Iowa Lyceum Manual

Day 1

Welcome Session and Beyond!

9:30am  (1 hour)

Registration and Introductions*

10:30am (45 min.)

Session One* – Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking: What philosophy is and how to reason 

with Kristopher Phillips

11:15am (30 min.)

Lunch

11:45am (45 min.)

Session Two* - Intrinsic and Instrumental Value: Is pleasure really the only thing that's good? 

with Gregory Stoutenburg

12:30pm (45 min.)

Session Three* - What is a mind, and why does it matter?

 with Jessica Engelking

Day 2

9:30am (45 min.)

Session Four – Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking: Sharpening your 'ninja tools' so you can fight poor reasoning effectively

 with Professor Peter LeGrant

10:15am (45 min.)

Session Five – Understanding what a person is, and what makes them persist!

with Professor Diane Jeske

11:00am (30 min.)

Lunch

11:30am (45 min.)

Session Six – Moral Motivation: Why should we be good?

with Professor Richard Fumerton 

12:15pm (45 min.)

Session Seven – Intro to Metaethics: Does right and wrong depend on particular persons? 

with Brian Collins

Richard Fumerton's 2014 Presentation - Moral Motivation: Why should we be good?

Jessica Engelking's 2014 Presentation - Personal Identity and Punishment

Day 3

9:30am (45 min.)

Session Eight – Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking: Probability and non-deductive reasoning

with Professor Peter LeGrant

10:15am (45 min.)

Session Nine – Consequentialism: Do the Consequences of your actions make the action right? 

with Professors Diane Jeske and Richard Fumerton

11:00am (30 min.)

Lunch

11:30am (45 min.)

Session Ten – Ethics of Belief: Should You Believe Certain Things? 

with Kristopher Phillips 

12: 15pm (45 min.)

Session Eleven – Personal Identity and Punishment

with Jessica Engelking

Day 4

9:30am (45 min.)

Session Twelve – Applying critical reasoning to the sciences and superstition

with Professor Peter LeGrant

10:15am (45 min.)

Session Thirteen - Deontological Ethics: Kant and Ross

with Brian Collins

11:00am (30 min.)

Lunch

11:30am (45 min.)

Session Fourteen – Moral Disagreement and Rational Belief

with Gregory Stoutenburg

12:15pm (45 min.)

Session Fifteen – Tying it all together: epistemology, mind identity and ethics. How to make sense of it all.

with Gregory Stoutenburg and Kristopher Phillips 

Iowa Lyceum Participants 2014

Iowa Philosophy Lyceum T Shirt 2014 - Previous Lyceum Logo on a Light Blue T Shirt

Day 5

9:30am (1 hour, 45 minutes)

Time to Work on Group Project

11:15am (30 minutes)

Lunch

11:45am (~15 minutes)

Group 1 Presentation*

12:00pm (~15 minutes)

Group 2 Presentation*

12:15pm (~15 minutes)

Group 3 Presentation*

12: 30pm (~15 minutes)

Group 4 Presentation*

12:45pm (~20 minutes)

Panel Discussion—Wrap-up