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October 2018
Technology and the Self, Technology and Ourselves
A discussion group around select readings for students, faculty, and others in the university community, led by Todd Best and Tim Schubert. See https://techandhuman.wordpress.com/ for materials. Open to everyone.
Find out more »Director’s Class: “On (thinking about) Being Human”
Led by Richard Horner. For students and alumni, lunch is provided. We have a hard time thinking about being human these days. We tend to think of ourselves as members of groups, but this move distances us from the humanity we share with others and even obscures our individuality. How, then, shall we think about being human?
Find out more »How to Think
A reading group on Alan Jacobs’s How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds (Currency, 2017). Jacobs draws on a wide variety of sources, and his writing is both readable and thought-provoking. Led by Richard Horner.
Find out more »Are the Twenties the New Teens?
Ernesto Escoto, PhD, Director, Counseling and Wellness Center, University of Florida
Find out more »Director’s Class: “On (thinking about) Being Human”
Led by Richard Horner. For students and alumni, lunch is provided. We have a hard time thinking about being human these days. We tend to think of ourselves as members of groups, but this move distances us from the humanity we share with others and even obscures our individuality. How, then, shall we think about being human?
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