I do not believe we selected an author last class so if anyone wants to get there comment done this will be up. We had a large discussion with Dr. Oliver for the main bulk of our discussion and touched on many of the realist ideas brought up in Dr. Oliver's discussion.
Factual question:
Who stated that one cannot "deduce values from facts"?
Answer: Hilary Putnam
Philosophical question:
Does Richard Rorty seem (from our limited view of him) to despise Americans?
Alternately what seems to be the goal of pragmatism as a school of philosophical study?
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
Factual: Who attempted to disprove Berkeley's theory of object permanence by kicking a stone? (Samuel Johnson)
ReplyDeleteDiscussion: do you agree with Berkeley's thought that if we cannot see something it does not exist?
Comments: I liked our discussion of Spinoza
Links: http://www.iep.utm.edu/berkeley/
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Factual question: what philosopher had the theory of immaterialism? (Berkeley)
ReplyDeleteDiscussion question: could our reality really be in our heads rather than really there?
Comment: I loved our discussion on Spinoza and the many side thoughts that came along with it.
Link: here is a link to an article about Berkeley
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61987/George-Berkeley