7:13 - Announcements
- bring up money for T-shirts ($5 dollars)
- 3rd Event Proposals due today
- next meeting is last meeting
- stay after meeting if you want/need event credit: break down
- Fundraising and Academic meet with E-Board
- Social
- March 5th @ 8:00 p.m. (next week after meeting): "Frolicking in the Field"
- team building activities
- form Intramural team
- next Friday, March 8th: Root Beer Pong
- Community Service
- textbook drive
- donate books in boxes in UU
- can also bring to meeting
- dropping off book = 1 event credit
- look on FB page
- Habitat for Humanity later in quarter or next quarter
- Fundraising
- Marketing
- rebranding HSB
- logo design competition
- submitting logos = 1 event credit
- email to hsbmarketing1@gmail.com
- winner gets prize!
- working on newsletter
- Academic
- reserving fish bowls for dead week/finals week
- Philosophy professor and HSB advisor
- take his class next quarter!
- C2 GE class
- PHIL 231
- Spring: MW 2:00-4:00 p.m.
- Fall: MW 10:00-12:00 (tentatively)
- asks 3 questions
- how do I live well?
- what is the right thing for me to do?
- why care about morality at all?
- also teaching PHIL 314 C4 GE on early modern empiricism (MW)
- investigates 17th and 18th century theories of the mind
- teaching Ancient Greek Philosophy class in Fall
- Christopher Langan
- Bouncer in Long Island Bar
- his IQ = 195-210
- "smartest man in the world"
- Interviewer: Errol Morris = NY Times Blogger
- TV Series: First Person (on YouTube)
- www.ctmu.org
- buy his book: "The Art of Knowing" ($10 dollars)
- learn about his theory
- sounds like Spinoza
- if this interests you, take PHIL 313 with Dr. Brown
- why does he still work at a bar?
- no education beyond high school
- wife is professor
- what is the value of an IQ test?
- IQ and age
- IQ may not have as much precedence as people give it
- athletes and IQ, does it test every kind of intelligence?
- Socrates was willing to acknowledge that he didn't know things
- perspective on knowledge
- intellect as part of self
- Langan thinks he is his intellect in a body
- His theory
- what is he doing with it?
- website hasn't been updated
- he could rule the world?
- he hasn't done much
- media interest starting in late 1990's
- game show 1 vs 100 - walked away with $250,000 dollars (2007)
- many people don't know about him
- what bothered people?
- standardized values
- acts like his ideas are new (Plato's Republic, Brave New World, etc.)
- immune to criticism
- never considered another human being's intelligence
- thinks he's far wittier than he is
- thinks in black and white
- has he ever seen a psychologist?
- abuse and criticism as child
- cannot reason through that abuse
- lacking social skills?
- makes up for that with intellect
- values vs facts/truths
- "cannot derive "ought" from "is"
- making assumptions
- lives in intellectual vacuum
- no feedback or criticism
- never encounters "peers" in his opinion
- aware of the world's problems, but not self-aware
- lesson:
- Brown hopes we don't psychologically isolate ourselves like Langan
- Honors program puts you in community with large variety of people
- are highly educated people the most respected?
- college education serves same function as high school education used to
- almost need college education to get a respected job
- Langan seems suspicious of those with trained education
- he may not thrive in academic environment
- hasn't had to overcome intellectual resistance
- another Errol Morris interview from Dr. Brown
