Prompt: Alphabet Inc. (Google’s parent company) has engineered a teleportation device that allows users to travel across the galaxy in nanoseconds. The teleportation device works by perfectly replicating your physical composition, atom by atom. Questions have been raised regarding whether one’s “soul” also gets replicated. According to congressional representative Anita Herndandez, “There is more to […]
What philosophical meaning does ‘truth’ have for Nietzsche? How does this compare to Descartes’ understanding, and/or that of Socrates?
The Conflicted Truth What philosophical meaning does ‘truth’ have for Nietzsche? How does this compare to Descartes’ understanding, and/or that of Socrates?
Briefly describe their two positions on these matters, with emphases on the roles these accounts play in their larger respective projects and arguments.
Plato (in the Phaedo) and Descartes (in the Meditations) In our readings, both Plato (in the Phaedo) and Descartes (in the Meditations) challenge the everyday assumption that our bodily senses should be our primary means for understanding ourselves, the world, and our relation to it. a) Briefly describe their two positions on these matters, with […]
Why does Descartes, in Meditation 1, provide the Dream Argument to show that he cannot trust the deliverances of his senses if he already has established that his senses sometimes deceive him?
Descartes Answer this questions Why does Descartes, in Meditation 1, need the Dream Argument to show that he cannot trust the deliverances of his senses if he already has established that his senses sometimes deceive him?
Is Descartes just proving what we already know, or have we discovered something important on this journey from doubt to absolute certainty?
Descartes Meditations So Descartes spends the whole time in this book, which you’ve now finished reading, trying to prove two simple things and one not-so-simple (rather huge) thing. But at the end of the day, do you think that Descartes achieves his goals? Is Descartes just proving what we already know, or have we discovered […]
Explain Edmund Gettier’s argument from his article? Present an argument either in defense or against Edmund Gettier’s objections to the justified-true-belief notion of knowledge.
Argument 1) Explain Edmund Gettier’s argument from his article, Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Present an argument either in defense or against Edmund Gettier’s objections to the justified-true-belief notion of knowledge. 2) Explain Peter Unger’s argument from his piece, An Argument for Skepticism. Do you think Peter Unger is correct to claim that certainty is […]
What sorts of thing(s) might we know beyond all possible doubt? What sort of thing(s) might we know despite having doubts? Explain.
Descartes Descartes thinks that only propositions that are beyond all doubt can be considered knowledge. Do you agree with this? What sorts of thing(s) might we know beyond all possible doubt? What sort of thing(s) might we know despite having doubts? Explain.
In your view, are the criteria of justification, truth, and conviction necessary and sufficient conditions for having knowledge?
Philosophy 1010: Introduction to Philosophy Summer 2022 1. Knowledge & Knowing In the Mediations, Descartes was concerned to find knowledge that was true, certain, and well-justified. Three centuries later, A. J. Ayer wrote that to know something is have a justified true belief about it. Gettier objected to Ayer’s characterization of knowledge by offering a […]
Drawing on the readings covered in class (Descartes, Leder, Schiebinger, Foucault) give an account of each of these registers. Given your account, do you think they can or should be ultimately understood as separate?
BODY IN PHILOSOPHY In Discipline and Punish Foucault distinguishes two registers of the modern machine- body: the “anatomico-metaphysical” and the “technico-political.” Drawing on the readings covered in class (Descartes, Leder, Schiebinger, Foucault) give an account of each of these registers. Given your account, do you think they can or should be ultimately understood as separate? […]
Explain Descartes method in his Meditations on First Philosophy and how does his doubt lead to the certainty of “cogito ergo sum.”
Focused Questions: Only choice one 1.Compare and contrast Plato and Aristotle on the nature of form and matter. How does Aristotle reconcile Platonic dualism in his view of the unification of essences within material reality? (Use primary source quotations from both philosophers.) 2.Explain Descartes method in his Meditations on First Philosophy. How does does his […]