Thursday, October 16, 2008

Link-Tested, Keanu Approved

Now that we've finished going over A Rulebook for Arguments, we're ready to start diving into some philosophical topics in class. This means we're going to start reading some philosophers who are bad writers. Here is a guide to reading philosophy that might help you if you're having trouble understanding the assigned readings.

Our first topic is knowledge. Here are some links on knowledge and skepticism. The first is about the philosophical implications of the movie The Matrix.

u just bl3w my mind, dudeNext is an audio interview by a modern philosopher on the Descartes reading we're discussing in class.


The last link is a more advanced version of the Nick Bostrom article that we're reading for class on the likelihood that we're really in a computer simulation.


(A dinosaur comic on this issue is available here.) By the way, if you have any links you think I or others in class might find interesting, let me know. And feel free to comment on any of these posts.

apparently this cat believes certainty is a requirement for knowledge

2 comments:

JewelryByJaime said...

Someone said in class one day this or last week that you can't read in dreams and that's how you know you're dreaming and not awake....


Well I had a dream last night and I was reading things that were painted in a painting, I remember reading the word "Rage" and "don't make me tell you what I know" & "you will regret it"


Hmmm sounds kinda creepy....

Anywho, that theory is blown out of the water! Some people CAN read in their sleep! :-)

Sean Keegan-Landis said...

Nice! I agree. I think there is a lot more variety in dreams than many of us think.