End of the semester

Another year, gone. And now it is time for me to award the House Cup....oops. No. Wrong movie. Instead I just turn in grades. They are done. If they are not what you were expecting email me to find out what gives. For the most part, grades were lowered because of missing words or missing work. Hopefully, you will be happy with the way things worked out. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. I plan on seeing many of you next semester - perhaps even all of you! It is a small world.

Tuesday classes

Okay, so for both classes now is the time to actually pick the movie we will watch for the final session. So please vote for a movie. Specify which class it is for! Plus today in History of Philosophy I, we are finishing the movie Luther.

Monday Logic

Notice that the syllabus has been updated and the Final is posted. Today's question was do you think modern media - TV and computer games - may skew young people's minds as they learn from cause and effect relationships?

History of Philosophy I from Tuesday

One student and I watched the first half of Luther. I don't think I came up with a question..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmcKlPyRxSM​

Holiday week

Because both the weather has been bad and half of the week is dedicated to a holiday celebration class attendance has been lower than usual (it almost always is this time of year!) But I was pleased we had so many at class this morning for Introduction to Philosophy! Terrific. We discussed Dewey and Wittgenstein. There were quite a few video clips that come in handy presenting these: Dewey on the Laboratory School (notice he speaks at the end of the short video.) For Wittgenstein we looked at several clips from the movie. The quiz question was what did Wittgenstein mean by Language Game? At the time that I am writing this I have no idea how many will make it to History of Philosophy I, but quite a few have emailed saying because of the roads they will not be here, but the topics I plan to cover are the same as listed for December 1: PCV2 to page 473. Lecture 26. Late Medieval Philosophy. John Duns Scotus William of Ockham Meister Eckhart since we have already "finished" with Aquinas. But it depends on who comes and how much we will do. But a quick quiz question is how did the Dunce Cap originate? Why is that ironic?

FMOOWMP

Very interesting video from ASU

Logic Wednesday

I do not recall asking a question today!