Today I sent the following e-mail message to all enrolled students:
From: Eggleston, Ben
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 5:27 PM
To: PHIL148 (26257) Fa07 - DL
Cc: 'Clifton Phillips'; mtrexler; 'Micah Baize'
Subject: Reason and Argument test scores posted
Dear students,
I wanted to let you know that I've posted the scores for today's test on the
online gradebook on the Blackboard site for our course. Many thanks to our
teaching assistants - Meredith, Cliff, and Micah - for working on the tests so
quickly this afternoon, and enabling me to get the scores posted today.
Please let me know if you have any questions. I'll see you on Wednesday.
Best,
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
Cliff Phillips’s office hours on Fridays will not be from 1:10 to 2:00, as indicated on the syllabus. Instead, his office hours on Fridays will be from 11:10 to 12:00. His office hours on Mondays (1:30–2:30) remain unchanged.
Today I sent the following e-mail message to all enrolled students:
From: Eggleston, Ben
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 4:06 PM
To: PHIL148 (26257) Fa07 - DL
Cc: Baize, Micah J; Phillips, Clifton Guy; mtrexler; Hodges, Cindi
Subject: Philosophy 148 welcome message
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 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 Thursday, August 16, is the first
day of the semester, none of our discussion sections will meet until after the
first lectures of the course, Monday, August 20, and Wednesday, August 22. So,
come to the lectures on the 20th and 22nd, and then start going to your
discussion section after that.
Second, you'll need to buy two things for this course. One is the syllabus,
which you can buy for $5 in the main office of the Department of Philosophy
(3090 Wescoe Hall - right inside the main door if you enter Wescoe as if you
were coming from Watson Library). The department office is open Monday through
Friday, from 8:30 to 4:30, and you can just tell them that you need to buy the
syllabus for Professor Eggleston's course, and they'll give you what you need.
They may need you to pay with exact change.
The other thing you need to buy is the textbook we'll be using in our course.
It's _Critical Thinking_, 8th ed., by Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker
(McGraw-Hill, 2007). You can buy it at a campus bookstore (I ordered it as a
textbook), or elsewhere, including online. (But it is not sold in the Department
of Philosophy office with the syllabus.) Be sure to get it soon, since we'll get
started with it right after the first 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 (ISBN
0-07-312625-X).
Finally, I have set up a web site for the course, at http://web.ku.edu/~utile/courses/reason3.
The syllabus is posted there, in case you ever need to refer to it when you
don't have your hard copy handy. (I've had copies printed and bound, and put on
sale for you, because I assume you'll find the syallabus's 92 pages inconvenient
to print and bind or staple yourself.) Also, I'll be posting other things on the
course web site 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.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to e-mail me. Meanwhile, I'm
looking forward to seeing you on Monday, August 20, in 3139 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
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 having extra students 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 TAs. 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 TA in charge of that discussion section. On the syllabus I’ve provided the TAs’ contact information in the hope that requests for permission numbers can be communicated and answered fairly quickly.