Oral Presentations

Below are the choices available for oral presentations. Click on the "comment" link below this entry, then choose something that has not already been chosen by someone else.

Make sure you write your name in the body of the comment so that I know who you are; otherwise it's open game.

For choice 20, two people would be required, since it's a debate.

Here are the choices:

1. Plato - Apology (9)
2. Milgram - Obedience to authority (22)
3. Vihvelin - Time travel: the rules of the road (75)
4. Kolak - The man who mistook himself for the world (86)
5. Reid - Critique of Locke and Hume on behalf of common sense (117)
6. Martin - Personal Identity from Plato to Parfit (124)
7. Parascandola - Trans or me? (139)
8. Augustine - Freedom of the will (148)
9. Hume - Liberty and necessity (158)
10. James - The dilemma of determinism (169)
11. Moore - Free will (177)
12. Taylor - Freedom and determinism (183)
13. Russell - Perception, knowledge and induction (240)
14. Armstrong - The infinite regress of reasons (254)
15. Clifford - The ethics of belief (271)
16. James - The will to believe (277)
17. Hume - God and evil (283)
18. Adams - Must God create the best? (290)
19. Martin - The elusive Messiah (298)
20. Plantinga - Philosophy, the Bible, and God: a debate (requires two participants) (308)
21. Wiredu - Religion from an African perspective (325)
22. Rey - Does anyone really believe in god? (335)
23. Einstein - Considerations on the universe as a whole (361)
24. Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (365)
25. Nozick - Fiction (368)
26. Kolak - Quantum cosmology, the anthropic principle, and why there is something rather than nothing? (372)
27. Parfit - The puzzle of reality: why does the universe exist? (396)
28. Kant - Percepts and Concepts (422)
29. Dretske - How do you know you are not a zombie? (434)
30. Thomson and Turetzky - A simple guide to contemporary philosophy of mind (444)
31. Zuboff - The story of a brain (471)
32. Nagel - What is it like to be a bat? (477)
33. Plato - Death and immortality (498)
34. Hume - Of the immortality of the soul (506)
35. Martin - Survival of bodily death: a question of values (510)
36. Clark - Death, nothingness, and subjectivity (526)
37. Kolak - The wine is in the glass (535)
38. Tolstoy - My confession (540)
39. Camus - The myth of Sisyphus (546)
40. Taylor - Is life meaningful? (550)
41. Martin - A fast car and a good woman (556)
42. Bennett - The conscience of Huckleberry Finn (575)
43. Rees - Reclaiming the conscience of Huckleberry Finn (only available if 42 is already taken) (581)
44. De Silva - Buddhist ethics (592)
45. Kolak - Morality and the problem of the other: from Sidwick to Rawls and Parfit (604)
46. Moore - Intrinsic value (658)
47. Mill - On Liberty (665)
48. Marx - Alienation and the power of money (675)
49. Chandavarkar - Philosophy and economics: issues and questions (684)