Exam Will Be Friday

The exam will be on Friday. Here is a study guide that will help you get a perfect score.

Know who these people are and what they did. They have all been mentioned in our book and in the movie.
Copernicus, Socrates, Plato, Leonardo Da Vinci, Johan Gutenberg, Robespierre, Soren Kierkegaard , George Berkley, Olympia De Gouges, Rene Descartes, Aristotle, Francis Bacon

Essay 1:

Describe Karl Pearson's Telephone Exchange thought experiment. Explain its significance.


Essay 2.

In The Matrix, the main character is shocked when he is taught that his whole life has been an illusion. The matrix in which his mind had been living was not physical reality, but only a simulation of it created by machines.
How do we know that the lives we are living are real? Can we be sure that we are not living inside of a similar matrix? Explain at length.

Essay 3.

In The Matrix, the main character is given a choice between two pills, a blue pill and a red pill. One pill will cause him to forget everything and go back to his comfortable life, the other pill offers to give him knowledge of the truth.
If you were given this option, which pill would you choose? Why? Explain the philosophical implications of your decision.