Graduate Idea Forum Study Group

2003-04

September 19, 2003
Stephen Toulmin, Return to Reason
Carol Cleland, "Historical Science, Experimental Science and the Scientific Method," Geology November 2001 (29, 11): 987-990.

October 17
Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club

November 14
The Metaphysical Club, continued

December 12
3 articles from Michigan Journal of Community-Service Learning :
Goodwin Liu, "Knowlege, Foundations, and Discourse: Philosophical Support for Service-Learning," Fall 1995: 5-18.
Kenneth Richman, "Epistemology, Community and Experts," Fall 1996: 5-12.
Robert E. Tucker, "Biting the Pragmatist Bullet: Why Service-Learning Can Do Without Epistemology," Fall 1999: 5-14.

January 30, 1-2:45
Ray McDermott and Herve Varenne, "Culture as Disability"
Herve Varenne, "Extra Burdens in the Search for New Openings:
On the Inevitability of Cultural Disabilities"

February 20, 1:30-3
Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love (2003)

March 19, 1:30-3:30
Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure, continued

April 30, 1:00-3:00
Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness (1999)

June 4, 1:00-3:00
The Feeling of What Happens, continued

July 9, 4:00-6:00
Julie Mencher, "Intimacy in Lesbian Relationship: A Critical Reexamination of Fusion" (in Women's Growth in Diversity: More Writings from the Stone Center. Ed. J.V. Gordon. New York, Guilford, 1997. 311-330)

July 27, 1:00-3:00
Octavia Butler, Bloodchild