Prometheus holds various undergraduate events; including an undergraduate forum that meets once a week to discuss philosophical texts.

The group regularly invites faculty and graduate students to participate in these discussions..

Forum Readings & Events: Fall 2009

• Week 1 – Religious belief: hard-wired and harmful? (9/29/09)
• Week 2 – Social Intuitionism and Normative Ethics (10/12/09)
• Week 3 – The Ethics and Psychology of Hobbes’ Leviathan (10/27/09)

Forum Readings & Events: Fall 2008

• WTopics for this semester’s weekly forums will be announced shortly.eek 0 – Kieran Setiya “Does Moral Theory Corrupt Youth” (9/25/08) [Fall Colloquia]
• Week 1 – The epistemological worth of the skeptical method. (9/29/08) [Weekly Forum]
• Week 1 – Dan Sperber “Naturalizing Culture: Philosophical and Empirical Issues” (10/2/08
• Week 1 – Dan Sperber “Cultural Epidemiology: Ecological and Psychological Factors” (10/3/08)
• Week 2 – Will the data deluge make the scientific method obsolete? (10/6/08) [Weekly Forum]
• Week 4 – Art in the age of mechanical reproduction (10/20/08) [Weekly Forum]
  
• Week 4 – Kathryn Trevenen as Guest Speaker for the Political and Moral Thought Seminar (10/23/08) [Fall Colloquia]
• Week 5 – Are moral claims intelligible?  Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics (10/27/08) [Weekly Forum]
• Week 6 – “Does social contract theory imply utilitarianism?” (11/03/08) [Weekly Forum]
• Week 7 – Gary Ebbs “Carnap and Quine on Truth by Convention” (11/14/08) [Fall Colloquia]
• Week 7 – Objectivist ethics and consequences. (11/10/08) [Weekly Forum]
• Week 8 – “The significance of choice” and free will more generally. (11/17/08) [Weekly Forum]
• Week 9 – Thanksgiving dinner (11/24/08)
• Week 10 – Ann Blair as Guest Speaker for the Political and Moral Thought Seminar (12/4/08) [Fall Colloquia]

Fall 2006

• Week 1 – Plato’s “Meno” (9/8/06)
• Week 2 – Richard Bett’s “Le bon et le beau selon les Stoïciens” (9/15/06)
• Week 3 – Plato’s “Symposium” and the SEP article on Stoicism (9/22/06)
• Week 3.5 – Richard Bett’s “Le bon et le beau selon les Stoïciens” (w/ Richard Bett) (9/24/2006)
• Week 4 – Bernard Williams’ “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality.” (9/28/06)
• Week 5 – Bernard Williams’ “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality.” (w/ Steven Gross) (10/5/06)
• Week 6 – John M. Fischer’s “Epicureanism about Death and Immortality” (10/12/06)

Spring 2006

• Week 1 – Dennett’s “Breaking the Spell” (3/09/06)
• Week 2 – Gewirth’s “Ethical Universalism and Particularism” (3/16/06)
• Week 3 – “Gunk, Topology, and Measure” (3/30/06)
• Week 4 – Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” – Ch.4 (4/06/06)
• Week 5 – Bermudez’s “Normativity and Rationality in Delusional Disorders” (w/ Mark Jenkins) (4/13/06)
• Week 6 – Being and Becoming in Modern Physics (w/ Rob Rynasiewicz) (4/20/06)
• Week 7 – Schopenhauer’s “The Emptiness of Existence” (4/27/06)
• Week 8 – Williams’ “Why Contextualism is Not Relativism” (w/ Michael Williams) (5/04/06)