We have our theme and topics after the 2nd Meeting

Our second meeting was nicely productive.

Our theme for the semester will be Ethics and Institutions. At our next meeting we will be discussing dominant viewpoints of Ethics (Nov 6th), including principles (Kant) vs. use (Mill). At the following meeting, we will be discussing institutions and bias (Nov 20th). The topics the group raised all seemed to circle these two themes.

I have opened up the ability to add comments so that anyone can post.

Proposed Topics for Discussion

Here is the run down on the topics proposed. Hopefully at our next meeting we can nail down what issue we will do each week. We can leave some topics for next semester.

Topics for Discussion

Psychology (Child Development & Piaget & Freud, How we think, relationships, mind/body problem)

Culture (Pop Culture, Afrocentrism, Institutions & trustable knowledge, law, the big thinkers of today, Art, Language, putting ideas into action)

Religion (Existence of God, Proofs of God, Asian Religion/Philosophy, Modern Society, Necessary, Good/Bad, meaning of life & existence, Spinoza)

Ethics (Free Will, Freedom of Speech, Utilitarianism, Race Gender & Class, Suicide & Euthanasia)

How much work?

No writing, not a lot of work

Read a few articles (2 or 3) per topic

Move chairs into a circle for better discussion

Our First Meeting

So we have had our first meeting (Friday, October 9th) and discussed what topics and issues we want to examine this semester. Our meetings will be every other Friday at 4 pm in room 315 of Berkeley City College.

The meeting schedule is:

October 23rd
November 6th
November 20th
December 4th
December 18th

I will post scheduled topics for each meeting once this is ironed out with the club at the next meeting (Oct 23).