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Dear Colleagues,

The annual Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement (URSA) Scholars Week is quickly approaching. Scholars Week 2014 will take place March 31 through April 3, 2014. I am emailing once again to solicit your help in recruiting students to participate. Students may orally present research at the Bill Daniel Student Center on Monday, March 31st or Tuesday, April 1st, or they may present research posters in the Baylor Sciences Building on Wednesday, April 2nd or Thursday, April 3rd. 

The 2014 Scholars Week online application is available at this link: http://www.baylor.edu/research/ursa/index.php?id=72075. This year, due to the new electronic submission system, students and mentors will load the abstracts into the link of the URSA website, and the documents will be automatically sent to the department chairs for approval.  The deadline to submit applications is February 26.

Please feel free to contact me or Donna Haberman, URSA Administrative Associate at Donna_Haberman@Baylor.edu or extension 7594, for more information about the event.

Thank you for your help ensuring that we have many excellent submissions!

Susan Bratton

Director, Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement

One Bear Place #97534

(254) 710-6566

Susan_Bratton@baylor.edu

MA thesis on Parmendies

This is a link to an  MA thesis on Parmenides that specifically addresses ways to teach him and his applicability to every day life.

Pretty impressive.


http://repository.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/5855/etd-tamu-2006A-EDCI-Yates.pdf?sequence=1

Fascinating book about ancient philosophy

 Here's a link to a  new book on Ancient Mediterrean thought.



http://www.bmcreview.org/2014/02/20140202.html

Class Plan For Tuesday

1.  Write the story of how the arche/ nature of reality  develops from  Thales through Heraclitus.

What do  Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Xenophanes, Pythagoras and Heraclitus each add to the story.

2.  Share your stories with your small group.

3. Write a group story.

4.  So what is the state of philosophy when Parmenides comes on the  scene?


Power point on  Parmenides and his Poem. 

Excellent Biography on Aristotle

For those of you thinking about writing on Aristotle,  or  those of you just interested in the life of Aristotle,  here's a link to a review of a book on his  life.  I read it myself over  Christmas  break and very much enjoyed it.


http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/45902-aristotle-his-life-and-school/

New Sappho Poems Found

 Hi All,  Thought you might find this discovery of interest.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/28/scholars-discover-new-poems-from-ancient-greek-poetess-sappho.html

Class Plan for the Week

Hi All,

We'll talk about Heraclitus  Tuesday.

1.  The name game.  Put chairs  in a circle and arrange yourselves alphabetically by first name.
2.  A  bit  about Heraclitus' person and personality.
3. The aphorism and the  history of philosophy.
4.  The Oracle  at Delphi
5.  Small group work.  Looking at the aphorisms  on    about the arche (metaphysics),  human understanding  (epistemology)   relationality   between logos and humans, between humans  (ethics)   Relationship to  philosophical past







No  class on  Thursday.    Your  assignment is to begin work on your presentation.  In that there is not  class and no  assignment,  this means that you have an  extra  2-3 hours in your  schedule.  I suggest that you take advantage of this time. Here's an assignment. 

1.  Decide what you are  presenting on if  you have not  already.
2.  Read the  aphorisms about your philosopher
3.  Read  Stanford Encyclopedia Article on  your philosopher
4.  Write some initial ideas about how you think you might present  

post a blog reporting what you've learned

This will count toward the  twenty points  in your class presentation on evidence of  preparation.  It will also  count as a blog  post.