OK, here's a schedule with dates:

Week I - begins 12/8 - Varieties Lecture I, "Religion and Neurology" -- "The Present Dilemma in Philosophy" -- "What Pragmatism Means"

Week II - begins 12/15 - Varieties Lecure II, "Circumscription of the Topic" -- "The One and the Many" -- "What Makes a Life Significant"

Week III - begins 12/22 - Varieties Lecture III, "The Reality of the Unseen" -- "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth" -- "The Will to Believe"

Week IV - begins 12/29 - Varieties Lectures IV and V, "The Religion of Healthy Mindedness" -- "The Gospel of Relaxation"

Week V - begins 1/5 - Varieties Lectures VI and VII, "The Sick Soul" -- "Pragmatism and Religion" -- "The Absolute and the Strenuous Life"

Week VI - begins 1/12 - Varieties Lecture VIII, "The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification" -- "The Importance of Individuals"

Week VII - begins 1/19 - Varieties Lectures IX and X, "Conversion"

Week VIII - begins 1/26 - Varieties Lectures XI, XII, and XIII, "Saintliness"

Week IX - begins 2/2 - Varieties Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness" -- "The Moral Equivalent of War" -- "Great Men and Their Environment"

Week X - begins 2/9 - Varieties Lectures XVI and XVII, "Mysticism" -- "The Sentiment of Rationality"

Week XI - begins 2/16 - Varieties Lecture XVIII, "Philosophy" -- "On a Certain Blindness"

Week XII - begins 2/23 - Varieties Lecture XIX, "Other Characteristics"

Week XIII - begins 3/2 - Varieties Lecture XX, "Conclusions," plus postscripts

The beginning of each week is the time to *start* reading the selections; comments should be sent in before the beginning of the next week. Of course this is just to give us a common framework -- it's cool to comment even if you're "too late" according to this schedule.

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Clara Raubertas <clara.raubertas@gmail.com> wrote:

Could this be translated into dates for those of us who like to calendar?

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Jesse Raber <jesse.raber@gmail.com> wrote:

For those who just joined, here's our "syllabus":

Week I - Varieties Lecture I, "Religion and Neurology" -- "The Present Dilemma in Philosophy" -- "What Pragmatism Means"

Week II - Varieties Lecure II, "Circumscription of the Topic" -- "The One and the Many" -- "What Makes a Life Significant"

Week III - Varieties Lecture III, "The Reality of the Unseen" -- "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth" -- "The Will to Believe"

Week IV - Varieties Lectures IV and V, "The Religion of Healthy Mindedness" -- "The Gospel of Relaxation"
Week V - Varieties Lectures VI and VII, "The Sick Soul" -- "Pragmatism and Religion" -- "The Absolute and the Strenuous Life"
Week VI - Varieties Lecture VIII, "The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification" -- "The Importance of Individuals"
Week VII - Varieties Lectures IX and X, "Conversion"

Week VIII - Varieties Lectures XI, XII, and XIII, "Saintliness"
Week IX - Varieties Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness" -- "The Moral Equivalent of War" -- "Great Men and Their Environment"

Week X - Varieties Lectures XVI and XVII, "Mysticism" -- "The Sentiment of Rationality"
Week XI - Varieties Lecture XVIII, "Philosophy" -- "On a Certain Blindness"
Week XII - Varieties Lecture XIX, "Other Characteristics"

Week XIII - Varieties Lecture XX, "Conclusions," plus postscripts

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