Philosophy 100W—Knowledge and
Reality
Summer 2018 (1184)
Dr Mc (a.k.a. Professor Jillian S.
McIntosh): jillmc at sfu
dot ca
Phone: 778-782-7088 or (to leave a message)
778-782-3343
WMC5606
We are NOT using Canvas
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Notices:
I am still
dealing with access issues to the syllabus.
In the meantime, I’ve put it at Coursys. https://coursys.sfu.ca/2018su-phil-100w-d1/pages/1184100WSyllabus
Most of the information linked here is for registered
students only. If you think you should
have access to something you don’t, please wait until after midnight that day
and refresh your browser. If you’re
still having difficulties, email me.
I will always put newer notices at the top, so you
don’t have to scroll down to check.
There are no tutorials
in the first week of term. They begin
the week of 14 May.
The syllabus
link above has important information about test dates and assignment due dates. It is behind a password, so available to
registered students only. The system
updates at 09.00 everyday, so check back.
If you have problems, email me.
In the meantime, start reading:
·
excerpt from Chapter 2 of Writing Philosophy (hence WP2 for 2nd
edition and WP1 for 1st edition) WP2=pp. 21-34.; WP1=pp. 22-36. Either edition is fine. (I do not expect this reading to be done
before the first lecture. But it should
be done right after it!)
·
start on Descartes’ first two
Meditations From the site www.earlymoderntexts.com
Start using your clicker
in lecture right away, whether or not you’ve registered it. I’ll start counting “for credit” as of
Wednesday 16 May. I will post at Gradebook whether or not your clicker is successfully
registered around 16 May, and will let you know when I have. The software is tracking responses even from
unregistered clickers.
To register
your clicker: go to http://www1.iclicker.com
and follow the directions. Your remote
ID is either on the back, or behind the battery, or on the display. Your student ID is your username (e.g., jillmc) NOT your student number. Use the short version (not jillian_mcintosh) and do not include “@sfu.ca”. Please indicate that we are NOT using a
LMS. (If you registered your clicker
recently, you likely will not need to re-register it. See above for how to tell whether or not it
seems registered to me.)
Sorry, but clicker
apps are not acceptable (e.g., for a phone or tablet). There are time lag and other problems. You may use either an i>clicker 1 or an i>clicker
2. You do not need to own the clicker
you use, but you should be able to bring it to every lecture, have it
registered to you, and not share it with somebody in the same class.
Recorded lectures should be available at
www.sfu.ca/~lectures.
Lecture notes (the week’s slides as pdfs nine to a sheet, with some clicker questions removed)
will be available at the “class pages” section of our Gradebook
after each week’s classes have been given.
If, during the term, you have any health problems for which you might seek accommodation, please have
your health care provider use the SFU standard
healthcare form (and get well quickly! J)
If you have a disability
that you would like accommodated, contact the Centre for Students with a
Disability and speak with me in a timely fashion if you would like to
request my assistance.
Any requests for accommodation on religious grounds are to be received by the end of the third week
of classes.
Any requests
for accommodation with respect to the Final Exam must conform to the
regulations listed here.
Please keep in mind that you are responsible for
reading all University email sent to you (so, from me and also from
Administration or Registrar’s). If your
SFU account is not your default account, have mail sent to it forwarded to your
usual account.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Version of
2018/05/07