Bentham's Principle of Utility

Quoted from Mica:

Hi!

I don't know where else to post this so I'm sorry if it's kind of out of place. Hehe. But whoever wants a digital copy of Bentham's Principle of Utility for their Midterm optional reading for Ph104 can message/email me at micapena@gmail.com! I will gladly sen it to you! :)

Thanks and Merry Christmas! :)

Mica Peña

Christmas Party!

Thanks to C. Aw and Gail for volunteering to organize our party. we await the three ph103 classes for their representatives.

Let us talk freely about what you may want to expect during the party.

Here are a few suggestions from me.

So that attendance to the party will not be a problem, we could make a rule that if at any point during the party 60% of current students enrolled this sem in my classes are present (take note that I need to count you guys myself!), we could make the denominator of your quiz average n-2 instead of the default n-1. If you guys can do 80% (that would set a record since that has not happened in the past), i'm willing to make it n-3.

Even my students in the past may attend.

The volunteers will plan stuff like venue, schedule, food, program. They will only plan. Everyone is expected to pitch in so as to execute the plans.

As I said in class, we need performers among us. Calling for musicians, dancers, singers, magicians, comedians, actors, etc to spice up the party. we'll find a way to provide a sound system and other needs you may have for your performance.

comment freely here for your suggestions etc.

let's hope we could still do this given that it is already december.

Magisterial Lectures by Antonette P. Angeles, PhD

Please be informed that we shall be holding three class sessions with Dr. Antonette Angeles where she will deliver keynote lectures on ethics. Dr. Angeles was recently the Academic Vice President for Ateneo. She has served in the past as chair of the Department of Philosophy. She teaches epistemology in the undergraduate and graduate levels of the Loyola Schools. She also teaches business ethics in the Ateneo Professional Schools.

The lectures shall take place at our classroom (Bel308) on these dates:

1. Wednesday December 1, 2010
2. Monday January 31, 2011
3. Monday February 14, 2011

The first session on Wednesday will take place during class time.
The other sessions will take place either during class time or 4:30-6pm. Please wait for further announcements.

Thank you.

Philosophy on cable TV not to push through

Hello friends!

For those of you who read or heard an announcement about my appearance at a documentary show, please be advised that ANC had to cancel the show at the last minute of production due to technical and administrative problems.

So the episode is now floating in production limbo. I'll let you know if any developments will occur in the future.

Thanks for your interest and support.

PJ Strebel

Changes in our schedule and other stuff

Good day to all of you.

I just need to inform you of the changes to our schedule since we won't meet on Tuesday, 5 October. This means that we only have one class session left before the finals.

About your finals week schedules:
You still need to submit those slips of paper on Tuesday, 5 October. You don't have to look for me. Just drop them into my mailbox/PH at 2/f de la Costa Hall near the stairs. Please submit them before 5pm.

For those who haven't done their repetitio:
Send me an email if you are still interested.
I'll also tell you what you need to do via email. I'll wait for you to contact me until 5pm on Tuesday.

About sign-ups:
Everyone will sign up on Thursday, 7 October.

For our last class session:
We'll just wrap up Marcel and do a review if time will allow it.

That will be all for now. Please take note that your thesis statements are already below in an earlier post. For questions und so weiter, please send me an email.
Thank you very much.

Mr. Strebel

Blasphemous Music

Hi guys!

While we were on The Problem of Unbelief, I thought of posting a few songs to help us reflect on points that we encountered with that essay. Unfortunately, I could not find a way to post them on this blog page. I finally decided to post them here:

biermannstrebel.tumblr.com

As of today, I have only posted one song since the page allows only one upload per day. So please do come back to it time and again for updates. I plan to post at most six songs.

Happy listening!

Welcome students in Ph 103.
Please leave a message if you have any concerns or questions.
I know the page is virtually empty. Imagine this as square one. Where we'll go will depend on your comments and questions.
You may also refer to this page for important announcements and reminders.

PJ Strebel