Because of the test on Wednesday, May 2, we will not have discussion sections May 2–7.
Today I sent the following e-mail message to all enrolled students:
From: Eggleston, Ben
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:13 AM
To: PHIL148 (66150) Sp07 - DL
Cc: Gillette, Brandon; 'Clark Sexton'; fritz33
Subject: Reason and Argument test on chapters 7-9 graded
Dear students in my Reason and Argument class,
I have just posted your grades for yesterday's test on Blackboard. I will post
the answer key on the course web site soon, and I will go over the test in class
next week. I hope you have a good weekend.
Best wishes,
Professor Eggleston
Today I sent the following e-mail message to all enrolled students:
From: Eggleston, Ben
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 12:26 PM
To: PHIL148 (66150) Sp07 - DL
Cc: Wiglesworth, Mackenzie; 'Derek Setter'; Brown, Louise; Gillette, Brandon;
'Clark Sexton'; fritz33
Subject: Reason and Argument - corrections to answer key for test in syllabus
Hi everybody,
I anticipate that many of you will be looking at last semester's test on
chapters 4-6 in preparation for this Wednesday's test on those chapters. It has
come to my attention that there are three questions whose answers I mis-typed in
the answer key for that test. On p. 25 of the syllabus, the answers to the
following questions should be listed as follows:
11. C
25. G
26. D
I apologize for these mistakes. If you have any questions about the practice
test, you are welcome to come by my office this afternoon, as well as during my
office hours tomorrow.
Best,
Professor Eggleston
Today I sent the following e-mail message to all enrolled students:
I sent the following e-mail message to all enrolled students:
If you are trying to add this course to your schedule and need a permission number, here is how that works. I have no problem with extra students being in the lecture. But to take this course, you also have to be in one of the twelve discussion sections, and having extra students in those discussion sections creates extra work for the GTAs. For this reason, I’m leaving it up to them to hand out permission numbers for extra students as they see fit. So, if you need a permission number, look on the syllabus and identify the discussion section that you want to be in, and then contact the GTA in charge of that discussion section. On the syllabus I’ve provided the GTAs’ contact information in the hope that requests for permission numbers can be communicated and answered fairly quickly.
On January 20, I sent the following e-mail message to all enrolled students:
From: Eggleston, Ben
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 1:29 PM
To: PHIL148 (66150) Sp07 - DL
Cc: fritz33; Gillette, Brandon; 'Clark Sexton'
Subject: Philosophy 148 discussion sections, web site, and book
Hello, and welcome to Philosophy 148, Reason and Argument. I'll be your
professor for this course, and I wanted to go ahead and send you not only a word
of welcome but also some information that you might find useful as you gear up
for the semester.
First, as you probably know, you have to be enrolled in one of our course's
twelve discussion sections as well as being enrolled in the lecture portion of
it. The discussion sections are scheduled for various times on Mondays,
Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Although yesterday was the first day of
classes, none of our discussion sections will meet until after the first
lectures of the course, this Monday at 10 and this Wednesday at 10. So, come to
the lecture on Monday and the lecture on Wednesday, and then start going to your
discussion section after that.
Second, I have set up a web site for the course, at http://web.ku.edu/~utile/courses/reason2.
There's nothing of substance there right now, but I plan to post the syllabus
there tomorrow, and I'll be posting other things there as the course progresses.
There won't be anything there that you'll be responsible for prior to our first
class, so you don't have to worry about it right away. I just wanted to go on
and give you the URL. I'll be using Blackboard for the online gradebook, but I
plan to use this non-Blackboard site for everything else.
Third, I want to mention the book we'll be using in our course. It's Brooke Noel
Moore and Richard Parker, _Critical Thinking_, 8th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2007). You
can buy it on campus (I ordered it as a textbook), or elsewhere, including
online. Be sure to get it soon, since we'll get started with it right after
Monday's class. You may find it sold bundled with something else, such as a CD
or a little booklet or something like that, but you won't need any of that other
stuff; you will just need the book itself. You can buy it used if you want -
just be sure that you get the 8th edition.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to e-mail me. Meanwhile, I'm
looking forward to seeing you this Monday at 10 in 3140 Wescoe Hall.
Best wishes,
Professor Eggleston
Ben Eggleston
eggleston@ku.edu
http://web.ku.edu/~utile
3070 Wescoe Hall
(785) 864-2332
mailing address:
Department of Philosophy
3090 Wescoe Hall
1445 Jayhawk Blvd.
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045