Introduction to Philosophy:

Course Description:
An introduction to Philosophy through the practice of questioning, reflection & diaolouge. 

Possible topics: 

• What is Art?
• What is the Good?
• Appearance & Reality
• Sexual & Relatonal Ethics
• Survey peers for topics for last few meetings

Format:

• Work through some texts, offer help pro-actively & during set "office hours"
• Use online meetings to talk about texts
• Use online meetings to try and practice answering some philosophical questions
• Final project: short paper on a topic, distribute to other peers, use last meeting as a discussion on short paper topic
• Try to meet once a week via skype or web-conf
• Try to match texts to what can be reasonably done in a week

Questions:

• How much to try and do in a week?
• If going for 12 weeks, then maybe one topic for 2 weeks?  Don't want to bore, but don't want to overwork. Follow-up with people more in the know.
• How to offer feedback & help without being overwhelming.
• Who is this course for? Absolute beginners with advanced students might be a problem. Need to check how other people handle this.

Publicity:

• Talk it up on meetup reading group. Investigate if I can send info to other philosophy meetup groups.
• Twitter/Blog
• NYC pretty covered, need to figure out getting word out outside of NYC

Meta:

• Join New Course Orientation
• Find Open-Source Texts
• Figure out if I have time to adapt/start textbook if pickins are limited

Contact:

José Muniz
josemuniz.org
@PersonDetectors