All Philosophy majors and minors, as well as other interested members of the SUNY Cortland community, are cordially invited to come and listen to this semester's graduating seniors defend their Senior Philosophy thesis. All Philosophy majors are required to undertake a work of significant philosophic interest in their final semester at Cortland. This is an excellent preparation for the rigour of graduate studies.
Our graduating seniors this semster are Matt Auble, Meaghan Connaire and Chris Boeres . Please come to their presentations and show your support for them, and take this opportunity to wish them well in their future endeavors.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SUNY Cortland
Old Main, Room 127
All Philosophy majors and minors, as well as other interested members of the SUNY Cortland community, are cordially invited to come and listen to this semester's graduating seniors defend their Senior Philosophy thesis. All Philosophy majors are required to undertake a work of significant philosophic interest in their final semester at Cortland. This is an excellent preparation for the rigour of graduate studies.
Our graduating seniors this semster are Karin Howe and Dave Warner. Please come to their presentations and show your support for them, and take this opportunity to wish them well in their future endeavors. Both students are planning on going on to graduate studies, Dave into law and Karin into graduate studies in logic.
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
SUNY Cortland
Old Main, Room 127
The title of my thesis is "Logic for Children Within a Play Paradigm." What that means in plain English is that I will be looking at ways of teaching logic to children through the use of media that people find intrinsically enjoyable, such as through the use of stories, puzzles and games. I will first present a philosophical defense of my goals and theories, and then switch to a more pragmatic approach and go through some examples of these media and explain how they could be used to further my goal of increasing the logical understanding of grade school age children.
My thesis is about social contract. The paper version discusses the history of contract including Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau as well as the trends of thought during their writing. This part will not be very prevalent in my presentation, however, and I will be spending the majority of my time discussing my theory which is a variation on the social contract as a more radical theory of government.
The presentation will include mostly just a brief sketch of my theory. I will be discussing the social contract as a theory that is relevant to both our time and all time, as an adaptable theory of government and society.[1]
[1]Text taken from email announcement of the presentations written by Dr. Kathy Russell, philosophy chair.
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