Presentation Topics and Dates
Week 3: R 12.18
Dan Wolterbeek, Are Mental Illnesses Natural Kinds?
Chris Steves, Are There Emergent Properties?
Week 4: T 1.6
Elena Small, When Do Humans Become Conscious?
Alex Sojda, Can AI Replace Humans?
R 1.8
Trevor Blanarik, At What Level Does Natural Selection Operate?
Week 5: T 1.13
John Dean, The Many-Universes Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Eric Kisner, Is Consciousness a Brain Process?
Week 6: T 1.20
Greg Puleo, Uses and Misuses of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem
R 1.22
Mark Wallingford, Mike Brindak, & Greg Hrinda, The Topography of Time
Week 7: T 1.27
Dan Amos & Kyle Otto, The Chinese Room Problem and AI
Peter Talarico & Parker Doelger, Chaos Theory and Determinism
R 1.29
Tony Perrone, Are There Laws in the Social Sciences?
Carl Felice, Why Creationism Is Not a Science
Week 8: T 2.3
Ben Mielenhausen, Ethical Issues with Human Cloning
R 2.5
Jonathan Steffens, Cameron Harbold, & Chris Fischer, Physics and the Nature of Laws
Week 9: T 2.10
Matt Harrington, Does the Truth of Quantum Theory Matter to Most Physical Applications?
Bryce Carey, The Large Hadron Collider
R 2.12
Eban Ploof, Cryptozoology
Erik Lewis, Can We Measure Happiness, and Why Would We Want To?
Week 10: T 2.17
Alex Kern, Global Warming and Controversy
Tim Page, Problems with String Theory
Natan Lafontaine, Qualia
R 2.19
Chris Pinto, Sam Davis, Ryan Maier, and Connor Bennette, Various Case Studies in Science, Politics, and Ethics
