Monday, February 3, 2014

Welcome to Philosophy!!


1.  Why study philosophy?  Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons, explains.
2.  You will need to think outside of the box
3.  Aristotle in Three Minutes!!
3.  Ideas, people, events, etc ... the A-Z guide to philosophy.
4.  Your big questions.

For tonight and tomorrow at school . . . first of all you will NEED a Gmail account for this course - go and make one for yourself if you don't already have one.  Please make it as close to your first and last name as possible - mine is marktkovich@gmail.com.

Some assignments will be completed using googledocs (presentation, forms etc).

Everything else will be submitted through D2L (Desire to Learn) - more on that later.

HOMEWORK:

1.  Complete this Contact Information Form .

2.  Watch these three videos (you can see the text of these talks (subtitles) by clicking the button directly below the video indicating "27 Languages"):

Metaphysics 
Epistemology iPod Magic  Epistemology Illusions
Ethics

Write your impressions of each video; what you agreed with, what you question, how the main idea(s) fit in your life.  Be prepared to share and hand in your ideas tomorrow.

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