Doomsday Clock skeptics attempt to ask non-threatening questions:
Skype conversation with John Mecklin: Group: Armando Dollero, Ousmane Sow, Oscar Fossum What questions did we ask? What inputs do you consider in calculating the time until midnight? About this idea of “misperception”: what happens if [...]
Doomsday Questions
Terminality Notes click this here
Linear Time, Telos, and Extinction
Group: Raphael Barnes, Claire Paterson, Jack Plants An essential facet of the modern, disenchanted, secular world is the conception of time as linear, unceasing, and perpetual. In a discussion of the problems faced in the [...]
Politics of Conservation
Group 1: Elsie, Meredith, Dani G, Dani D What is human intervention? Destruction vs conservation http://www.endangered.org/10-easy-things-you-can-do-to-save-endangered-species/ (conservation) What is the quality of life of species in captivity? This opinion piece in The [...]
Conceptualizing Biodiversity
first group paper click it
why should we care about extinction? a running thesis
Group: Armando Dollero, Ousmane Sow, Oscar Fossum Our group was interested in understanding extinction from a philosophical standpoint. For example, what is the significance of extinction to humans (subjectively), and is there any significance [...]