I’m soooo sorry. I had to hand in my philosophy paper today and realized a day earlier that I had to rewrite so stuff. Will you still have me if I catch up peers?

Hey, I even brough some muffins to make up for it:

Will you forgive me?

Greetings! I’m Dru Bhattacharya, an assistant professor of health law and policy at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois. My areas of research encompass health law, global health, international law, and health education, culture and behavior. Among my particular interests concern the intersection of law, medicine, public health and human rights as relates to women’s health.

Good evening fellow students,

To introduce myself; my name is Alasdair and I’m a final year law student at St Catharine’s College, Cambrige University. My interests lie in the intersection of law and emerging technology, especially in the effects and interactions of technology and human rights. Its great to meet such a diverse and accomplished set of class mates from across the world and I hope to look at with you at how we begin to create and regulate legal frameworks for complex and developing technologies.

When I am not being a student In my spare time I enjoy skiing, squash and playing internet spaceships You should follow me on twitter here and read my blog here.

Hello everyone.  My name is Hope May.  I am a professor of philosophy (specializing in ancient philosophy) and recently completed my J.D. degree.   I recently authored a book “Aristotle’s Ethics: Moral Development & Human Nature” in which I argue for an interpretation of Aristotle’s ethics that is compatible with a view of autonomy that one finds in a theory of motivation called “Self-Determination Theory”.   Put most simply, I am interested in the neurobiology of flourishing and optimal experience.  Deeply influenced by the ideas of Mihalyi Csikszentmihayi, I would like to understand what, neurobiologically, is beneath feelings of “flow”, “intrinsic motivation” and the feeling of knowing.  Aristotle claimed that the purpose of law is to promote human flourishing and I whole heartedly agree.  I think that human rights law should absolutely take into account the ideas of flourishing put forth by Aristotle and his modern voice, Csikszentmihalyi.  Anyway, I am interested in this class for the aforementioned reasons and also because I am interested in the potential of the internet to promote human flourishing — because you see, for both Aristotle and Csikszentmihayi, knowledge, mastery, and a fellowship of inquiry are essential components of flourishing.   P.S. I do an internet radio show everyweek with my students.  You can listen on the archives at itunes or live via blogtalk radio at 7pm EST.  Tonight we are doing a show on the ideas of Walter Ong.  If you do not know who he is, listen because he is very cool!  The website of the show is:

http://ethicstalk.cmich.edu

Hello everyone,

My name is Ken Daniszewski.  I work as an administrative staff member at UCSD in San Diego.  My background is mostly in accounting and education.  I am interested in understanding neuroethics as it might relate to research administration, and also I am interested in the Peer 2 Peer University model.   Also, I’ve read several articles lately about how popular neuroenhancing drugs are becoming, so I am interested in understanding how they might effect higher education in the future.  I look forward to learning about Neuroethics and participating in this course.

Hi everyone, I’m Xenia. I’ll just say a little bit about my ethnic and academic background. If you have any questions, feel free to ask

My mother is Croatian and my father is American of Haitian Creole- and Indo-Afro-American heritage. My stepfather, who raised me with my mom is a Muslim Bosnian, who fled to Germany during the war in the ’90. I live and grew up in Germany, where I currently study at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. I’m enrolled in two separate degree programs. Philosophy is my major in the ‘old program’ of which Magister is the associated degree. This used to be the common degree pursued by humanities students before the Bologna Process. The degree acquired hereby is equivalent to a master’s degree. My two minors in this course of study are Psychology and Zoology. I added Molecular Biology in form of a full-fledged bachelor program after my third semester. So in addition to philosophy as an advanced student (called Hauptstudium in German, which is equivalent to graduate studies)  I have to do the baby steps of undergraduate learning in a different field all over again

Please don’t feel irritated if I put up to many smileys I love smiling and do so often when I talk to people. It’s difficult for me to communicate without body-language and facial expression usually involved in vis-à-vis conversation.

After applying, I wrote a post on how excited I am to participate in this course.

By the way, how about collecting the papers we read for this course on Mendeley? I wrote a review on this program on Blogcritics, mentioning the possibilities it could have for projects as the P2PU.

Ahoy maties!

Captain Mohammed Bushra here, parroting the post format set by Kevin, and reminding ye all in good time that 19 September be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arrr!

Now that the most obvious of P2P stereotypes is out of the way, I shall leave you with a short introduction to me and my interest in this module. Very much looking forward to getting to know you all over the coming few weeks!

Mohammed

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Hello everyone,

I am very much looking forward to working with all of you and getting to know each of you over the course of the next few months. Below is a summary of my background and interests.

Best wishes and enjoy the course!

Kevin

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