By Monday March 1, please read pages 21-23.
You may stop reading when you arrive near the bottom of page 23 at Chapter III.
NOTICE!!!!
On Monday we will be having our first test. The test will not be too difficult for those students who have both read the book and stayed awake during the movie. Those students who have not been reading, and those students who used the movie time to copy work for other classes may be exposed.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sophie's World
Please post any questions that you have about Sophie's World.
Include your initials so that I know who you are. Posting well thought out questions and responses is a form of class participation. Participation, positive and negative, will be taken into account when grades are calculated.
Include your initials so that I know who you are. Posting well thought out questions and responses is a form of class participation. Participation, positive and negative, will be taken into account when grades are calculated.
Reading Assignment, Monday Feb. 22
Please read pages 14-16 before Tuesday's class.
We will continue with Sophie's World in class, but it is important for you to keep up with the assigned readings. You are responsible for the information contained in the pages that are assigned. You will be tested on this information.
If you have questions about information from these pages, make a comment under the associated post. For example, if you have a question about page 15, post the question in the comments under this post. If you have a question about page 13, post your question under the post where page 13 was assigned.
I will address questions in class more effectively this way.
We will continue with Sophie's World in class, but it is important for you to keep up with the assigned readings. You are responsible for the information contained in the pages that are assigned. You will be tested on this information.
If you have questions about information from these pages, make a comment under the associated post. For example, if you have a question about page 15, post the question in the comments under this post. If you have a question about page 13, post your question under the post where page 13 was assigned.
I will address questions in class more effectively this way.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
First Day of Class
For Friday, please read pages 10-13 of Fullerton's book(a link to the book can be found in the post below). Stop reading when you arrive at:
Bacon holds that philosophy has for its objects God, man, and nature, and he regards it as within his province to treat of "_philosophia prima_" (a sort of metaphysics, though he does not call it by this name), of logic, of physics and astronomy, of anthropology, in which he includes psychology, of ethics, and of politics. In short, he attempts to map out the whole field of human knowledge, and to tell those who work in this corner of it or in that how they should set about their task.
As for Descartes, he writes of the trustworthiness of human knowledge, of the existence of God, of the existence of an external world, of the human soul and its nature, of mathematics, physics, cosmology, physiology, and, in short, of nearly everything discussed by the men of his day. No man can accuse this extraordinary Frenchman of a lack of appreciation of the special sciences which were growing up. No one in his time had a better right to be called a scientist in the modern sense of the term. But it was not enough for him to be a mere mathematician, or even a worker in the physical sciences generally. He must be all that has been mentioned above.
Bacon holds that philosophy has for its objects God, man, and nature, and he regards it as within his province to treat of "_philosophia prima_" (a sort of metaphysics, though he does not call it by this name), of logic, of physics and astronomy, of anthropology, in which he includes psychology, of ethics, and of politics. In short, he attempts to map out the whole field of human knowledge, and to tell those who work in this corner of it or in that how they should set about their task.
As for Descartes, he writes of the trustworthiness of human knowledge, of the existence of God, of the existence of an external world, of the human soul and its nature, of mathematics, physics, cosmology, physiology, and, in short, of nearly everything discussed by the men of his day. No man can accuse this extraordinary Frenchman of a lack of appreciation of the special sciences which were growing up. No one in his time had a better right to be called a scientist in the modern sense of the term. But it was not enough for him to be a mere mathematician, or even a worker in the physical sciences generally. He must be all that has been mentioned above.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Fullerton, An Introduction to Philosophy
Download An Introduction to Philosophy, by George Stuart Fullerton and save it on your computer.
Go to:
www.manybooks.net
Search for the title I have listed above and it will appear.
You could also try to copy and paste this link:
http://manybooks.net/titles/fullertonge16401640616406-8.html
Go to:
www.manybooks.net
Search for the title I have listed above and it will appear.
You could also try to copy and paste this link:
http://manybooks.net/titles/fullertonge16401640616406-8.html
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