Prometheus holds various undergraduate events; including an undergraduate forum that meets once every two weeks to discuss philosophical texts.

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

Fall 2011

Every meeting will be held 7:30pm – 9:00pm in Gilman 288 on the noted dates.

• Week 1 – The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory (09/12, Wednesday) (video)
• Week 2 – The Creation of New Creatures (10/12, Wednesday) (video)
• Week 3 – On Strange Beliefs (10/24, Monday) (video)
• Week 4 – Stoke of Insight (11/07, Monday) (video)
• Week 5 – Is Anatomy Destiny? (11/21, Monday) (video)

Fall 2010

• Week 1 – Is your iPhone part of your mind? (09/09)
• Week 2 – Is philosophy continuous with science? (09/23)
• Week 3 - What does it mean to be a philosopher? (10/07)
• Week 4 - How are mathematics and philosophy related? (10/21)
• Week 5 - What is the difference between human beings and animals? (11/04)

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)

Fall 2008

• Week 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)