2018 Iowa Lyceum
June 11th - June 15th
Lyceum Theme: History of Philosophy
Each participant received a copy of W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folks, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, and a custom design, camp t-shirt.
Day 1
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9:00am (30 min.) |
Breakfast |
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9:30am (45 min.) |
Registration Introductory Philosophizing |
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10:15am (45 min.) |
Schedule for the week Session One* - Overview of areas of philosophy |
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11:00am (30 min.) |
Lunch |
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11:30am (1 hour & 30 min.) |
Session Two* - Does a Good Moral Argument Require a Good Moral Character? Charitable Interpretation and the Ad Hominem Fallacy in the History of Philosophy with Brady Hoback & Phillip Ricks |
Day 2
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9:00am (30 min.) |
Breakfast |
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9:30am (45 min.) |
Session Three* - Logic Session 1 with Laura Brown |
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10:15am (45 min.) |
Session Four* - Heraclitus and Parmendies on the Nature of Time with Katarina Perovic |
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11:00am (30 min.) |
Lunch |
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11:30am (45 min.) |
Session Five* - Who am I? Adi Śaṅkara on the Self with Emily Waddle |
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12:15pm (45 min.) |
Session Six* - Ibn Sina and Descartes on Self-Knowledge with Ali Hasan |
Day 3
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9:00am (30 min.) |
Breakfast |
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9:30am (45 min.) |
Session Seven* - Logic Session 2 with Laura Brown |
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10:15am (45 min.) |
Session Eight* - William of Ockham on God and Morality with David Redmond |
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11:00am (30 min.) |
Lunch |
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11:30am (1 hour & 30 min.) |
Session Nine* - Contract Theories of Political Obligations: Hobbes vs Locke with Diane Jeske |
Day 4
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9:00am (30 min.) |
Breakfast |
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9:30am (45 min.) |
Session Ten* - Logic Session 3 with Laura Brown |
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10:15am (45 min.) |
Session Eleven* - The gendered division of labor and John Stuart Mill with Asha Bhandary |
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11:00am (30 min.) |
Lunch |
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11:30am (45 min.) |
Session Twelve* - Augustine and Wittgenstein on Learning to Speak a Language with David Stern |
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12:15pm (45 min.) |
Session Thirteen* - Spelunking in Plato's Cave with Carrie Swanson |
Day 5
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9:00am (30 min.) |
Breakfast |
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9:30am (1 hour & 30 min.) |
Student Group Projects |
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11:00am (30 min.) |
Lunch (Parents Welcome!) |
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11:30am (1 hour & 30 mins.) |
Student Group Project Presentations (Parents Welcome!) |