Day 1: Welcome!

1.  Why study philosophy?  Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons, explain.
2.  You will need to think outside of the box
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 amykovich@gmail.com.

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

HOMEWORK:

1.  Complete this 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
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.