Institute Daily Schedule

Welcome:

Sunday, July 16th 

2:00 PM          Check-in to Brooks College

6:30 PM          Welcome Reception, Brooks College Quad

Week One:

The Nature of Wisdom Questions and the Development of Disputatio

Monday, July 17^th

9:00 AM          Welcome & Introduction to the Institute

• Reading:          Principles of Civility for NEH Seminars, Institutes, and Workshops. 

10:00 AM        Coffee Break

10:30 AM        The Nature of Wisdom Questions

• Reading:          Plato, Euthyphro
• Suggested: 
  • Todd Buras, “On the Nature of Wisdom Questions,” unpublished manuscript.
  • Ryan, Sharon, "Wisdom", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)   

12:00 PM        Lunch

1:00 PM          Orientation to Baylor University and its Resources

2:00 PM          Overview of Participant Projects—Disciplinary Small Group Meetings

3:30 PM          Break & Reading Time

5:00 PM          Evening Free for Relaxing and Informal Interactions

Tuesday, July 18^th

9:30 AM          The Socratic Approach to Wisdom Questions

• Reading:          
  • Plato, Apology
  • Plato, Meno (selection)
• Suggested: Nails, Debra, "Socrates", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

1:00 PM          The Limits of Socratic Approach

• Reading:          Plato, Republic, book 1

3:30 PM          Break & Reading Time

5:00 PM          Evening Free for Relaxing and Informal Interactions

Wednesday, July 19^th

9:30 AM          Alternatives to the Socratic Approach—Revelatory Poetics

• Reading: Plato, Republic, Book 1 (continued)
• Suggested:  Plato, Phaedrus Griswold, Charles L., "Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) 

12:00 PM        Lunch

1:00 PM          Alternatives to the Socratic Approach—Skepticism

• Reading: Epicurus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism (selection)
• Suggested: Vogt, Katja, "Ancient Skepticism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

3:30 PM          Break & Reading Time

5:00 PM          Evening Free for Relaxing and Informal Interactions

Thursday, July 20^th

9:30 AM          The Development of the Socratic Approach in Medieval Universities

• Reading:  Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, (selection)
• Suggested: McInerny, Ralph and O'Callaghan, John, "Saint Thomas Aquinas", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

12:00 PM        Lunch

1:00 PM          The Components of Disputatio

• Reading: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, (selection—continued)

3:30 PM          Break & Reading Time

5:00 PM          Evening Free for Relaxing and Informal Interactions

Friday, July 21^st

9:30 AM          Disputed Questions on the Virtues & the Virtues of Disputed Questions

• Reading: Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law (selection)

12:00 PM        Lunch

1:00 PM          Participant Project Planning Meetings—Disciplinary Small Groups

3:00 PM          Break & Reading Time

3:30 PM          A Primer on Logical Vocabulary and Forms (optional)

5:00 PM          Evening Free for Relaxing and Informal Interactions
 

Week Two:

Disputatio and the Pursuit of Wisdom in the Humanities

Monday, July 24^th

9:30 AM          A Rhetorical-Poetic Reading of Antigone                                                                                                                             

• Reading: Sophocles, Antigone
• Suggested:      
  • Kevin Hawthorne, “The Chorus as Rhetorical Audience:  a Sophoklean Agon Pattern,” American Journal of Philology 130 (2009): 25-26. 
  • Lukas van den Berge, “Sophocles’ Antigone and the Promise of Ethical Life:  Tragic Ambiguities and the Tragedy of Reason,” Law and Humanities 11 (2017): 205-227.

12:00 PM        Lunch

1:00 PM          Disputatio & the Pursuit of Wisdom in Antiogne

3:00 PM          Break

3:30 PM          Participant Project Time—Disciplinary Group Meetings

5:00 PM          Evening Free for Reading, Relaxing, and Informal Interactions

6:30 PM          Group Viewing of Hamlet (optional)

Tuesday, July 25^th

9:30 AM          A Rhetorical-Poetic Reading of Hamlet

• Reading:  Shakespeare, Hamlet
• Suggested:  
  • William Franke, “Prophesy Eclipsed:  Hamlet as Tragedy of Knowledge,” Secular Scriptures, The Ohio State University Press, 2016. 
  • Bernice W. Kilman, ed., Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Modern Languages Association of America, 2002. 

12:00 PM        Lunch

1:00 PM          Disputatio & the Pursuit of Wisdom in Hamlet

3:00 PM          Break

3:30 PM          Participant Project Time—One-on-one meetings with Project Team

5:00 PM          Evening Free for Reading, Relaxing, and Informal Interactions

Wednesday, July 26^th 

9:30 AM           A Close Reading of the Dubois-Washington Debate in Historical Contexts

• Reading: 
  • Booker T. Washington, “The Atlanta Exposition Address”
  • W.E.B. DuBois, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”
• Suggested: Robert Gooding-Williams, “The Du Bois-Washington Debate and the idea of Dignity,” in To Shape a New World:  Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., Brandon M. Terry and Tommie Shelby, eds., (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 2018) pp. 19-34. 

12:00 PM        Lunch

1:00 PM          Disputatio & the Pursuit of Wisdom in the Dubois-Washington Debate.

3:00 PM          Break

3:30 PM          Participant Project Time—One-on-one meetings with Project Team

5:00 PM          Evening Free for Reading, Relaxing, and Informal Interactions

Thursday, July 27^th

9:30 AM          A Close Reading of King’s Defense of Civil Disobedience in Context

• Reading:  
  • “Statement by Alabama Clergymen”
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”
  • Malcolm X, “Message to the Grass Roots”
•  Suggested:      
  • Plato, Crito  
  • John Rawls, “The Definition and Justification of Civil Disobedience”

12:00 PM        Lunch

1:00 PM          Disputatio & the Pursuit of Wisdom in the Civil Disobedience Debate

3:00 PM          Break

3:30 PM          Participant Project Time—Disciplinary Small Group Meetings

5:00 PM          Evening Free for Reading, Relaxing, and Informal Interactions

Friday, July 28^th

9:30 AM          Participant Project Presentations—Disciplinary Small Groups

12:00 PM        Lunch

1:00 PM          Participant Project Presentations—Mixed Discipline Small Groups

3:00 PM          Break

3:30 PM          Concluding Round Table

6:30 PM          Farewell Reception