THE HUMANIST INSTITUTE
Class XI

Robert Tapp & guests, Mentors

1. Introduction to Modern Humanism

• John Dewey, A Common Faith
• Julian Huxley, Evolutionary Humanism
• Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not a Christian
• Edward Ericson, The humanist way: an introduction to ethical humanist religion
• Paul Kurtz, The Humanist Alternative
• Nicholas Walter, Humanism
• Howard Radest, The Devil & Secular Humanism
• Corliss Lamont, The Philosophy of Humanism

2. Humanist Histories and Organizations

• David Robinson, The Unitarians and the Universalists
• Mason Olds, Religious Humanism in American
• Gerald Larue, Freethought Across the Centuries
• Howard Radest, Toward Common Ground
• James Turner, Without God, Without Creed
• Sherwin Wine, Judaism Beyond God

3. Beliefs and Ideologies, Humanist and Non-Humanist

• Ninian Smart & Richard D. Hecht (eds), Sacred texts of the world: a universal anthology
• Daniel Pals, Seven Theories of Religion
• Michael Shermer, How We Believe
• Paul Kurtz, The Transcendental Temptation
• Keith Yandell, Philosophy of Religion

4. Ethical Theories and Problems

• Tom L. Beauchamp, Philosophical ethics: an introduction to moral philosophy
• Robert Grant, American Ethics and the Virtuous Citizen
• James Gouinlock (ed), The Moral Writings of John Dewey
• Jonathon Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

5. Gender, Sexuality, and Family Issues

• Mary Ann Mason, All Our Families
• Alice Rossi, Gender and the Life Course
• Carol Tavris, The Mismeasure of Woman
• Edward Stein, The mismeasure of desire: the science, theory and ethics of sexual orientation

6. Science, Postmodernism

• Brian Silver, The Ascent of Science
• Huston Smith, Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief
• Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
• Philip Kitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
• Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life
• Philip Appleman (ed), Darwin, 3rd ed
• P. C. W. Davies, God and the New Physics
• Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
• Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science

7. Ethical Problems, Economics, Government

• Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
• Jospeh Stigletz, Globalization and its Discontents
• Peter Mitchell & John Schoeffel, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
• Humanism Today, Vol 12
• Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club
• John Paul II, Centesimus Annus (download)
• John Burton, “Workplace Safety and Health Regulation”

8. "Race" Issues: Multiculturalism, Ethnicism, Racism, Oppression

• David Roediger, Colored White
• Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror
• Anthony Appiah & Amy Gutmann, Color Conscious
• Anthony Pinn, By These Hands
• Humanism Today, Vol 14

9. Aesthetics, Arts, Ceremonials, Rituals, Leadership

• Sherwin T. Wine, A Ceremonial and Philosophical Guide for Humanists and Humanistic Jews
• Khoren Arisian, The New Wedding: creating your own marriage ceremony
• Corliss Lamont, A Humanist Wedding
• Corliss Lamont, A Humanist Funeral
• Peter A. Angeles, Critiques of God: Making the Case Against the Belief in God
• John Dewey, Art as Experience
• Arthur Dobrin, Teaching Right from Wrong
• Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership: a journey into the nature of legitimate power and greatness
• Ronald A. Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers
• Edgar H. Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership
• Vincent B. Leitch, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism  (Kant, Woolstonecroft, Wordsworth, Arnold, Du Bois, Woolf, Heidegger, Benjamin, Lacan, Levi-Strauss, Austin, Frye, Lyotard, Foucault, White, Habermas, Achebe, Bourdieu, Derrida, Hall, Said, Butler)