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I love the analogy that philosophers ask questions “with the wonder of a child”. I think this perfectly describes the way the philosophers have to think in order to pursue knowledge that others often don’t or can’t consider. The ability that philosophers have to ask universal questions and think in such a broad sense requires an almost child-like perspective that anything is possible without the perceptual sets and limitations that we often develop throughout life and restrict our thinking.
Glad you like that analogy — I do too. But don’t forget about the second half, “with all of the precision of a lawyer.” That is the side of philosophy that many people have a hard time with, which seems like a legitimate thing to object to since sometimes philosophers seem to make too many fine distinctions. But on the other hand, I do appreciate that philosophers try to get beyond the kind of unschooled and sometimes vague questioning of children and try to see how much sense we can make of things if we really try to be careful with the way we use language.
I like how at the very end of the slideshow it has a philosophers toolkit to explain assumptions, implications, and distinctions to show the difference between all three. I also liked how they asked the question, “what can I know with any degree of certainty, when my senses so often mislead me” because it got me thinking about what happens when something misleads you, but all the facts are pointing to that answer being right. Overall I really liked how this slideshow broke down philosophy because to be honest I forgot a little bit about it and what it means.
A slide from the slide show that fascinated me was the one about science as organized skepticism. I like how it gave important and useful tips to not be persuaded so easily such as rejecting global doubts, resist theory meaning let the bigger picture emerge on it own and relying on public evidence. I was also interested in the ‘philosophers toolkit’ because it was informative on how to examine or question all of our assumptions.
i also like that slide as to me it just said if you don’t think about something long enough eventually it will make sense
This slide show interested me in the sense of how things would have been without phones every being invented. Everything else I have read about phones and their affect on people today has led to what they are like and how it is not normal but this opened my eyes to how it would be normal without phones and I enjoyed how it opened my eyes to that.
if we think about the philosophy of skepticism you see that it goes in-depth into the baisc thing we think about on a day to day basics, and it makes some propel live there life different, a skeptic person might live there life based on skeptic morals making them less likely to belaube most things told on things they might not trust. Some people are not like that worry about how a skeptic person is crazy based on what they think. So either way they both have skepticism ideologies. Just going off the fact that we can think for out own, will always cause people to have a skeptical point of view being there will always be a bias on everything, which would root skepticism as the most observed view in philosophy.
studying the basics of reality and nature is the opposite of figuring out or solving everyday problems. it requires you to look past many standards and limits set by us. As rdb1038 mentioned you have to pick up and adapt to a child like thinking without crashing of the rails due to too much imagination, which can definitely occur especially as a philosopher.
This is true! Although at times, as we will be seeing, when scientific ideas change radically, it often times requires a huge leap of imagination. Isaac Newton, for example realized that the moon orbiting the earth was actually continually FALLING towards the center of the earth in exactly the same way as an apple falls from a tree. The reason that it never moves closer is that this falling motion is exactly balanced by a motion perpendicular to the falling motion!
I really enjoyed the science as organized skepticism slide. The ideas presented on the slide made a lot of sense to me. I looked at a few of them and thought to myself hmm I kind of live my day-to-day life with those things in my head. Ones such as the resist theory. I fully believe that letting the big picture emerge on its own is the best way to go about something. Like a task you don’t want to complete or learning something from someone in your life. There are things around you that can influence and charge you for the better it is all part of one big picture. (reply to me if you think I’m incorrect but this is how I see it in my head)
The first thoughts that come to my mind right after viewing the seventeen slides is how it takes you through a philosophical timeline linking modern society and how over time we continue to question what is the best way of living, regardless of how much technology we have. The cell phone slide and then the last biblical slide really emphasize that where we are now with all of our technology and cultural changes, we still can not alter the fact that we continue to “think” just like our ancestors did all the way back then. The other thought I have when viewing these slides is that maybe it’s trying to show us that we have gone too far on technology and are the source of our own future failures. Weird for me to think this way but these topics really can get you a bit out of your comfort zone!
One slide that got me thinking is the one that said if it can not be repeated it can not be trusted. I thought of the how back in the day if you said the earth was not the center of the world than you went to prison. If we thought that way in how if it can’t be repeated it can’t be trusted we would still be thinking Earth is the center of the world.
This slideshow really brought together the ideas of the knowledge and doubts that have caused such positive impacts in the world. The way in which philosophers were bold enough to ask and try to answer universal questions is what leads to so many positive things coming forth for more organization in the world. An example of this I thought of immediately was all the impact Socrates had on our Criminal Justice System and how people started the action of policing and seeking justice.
Wow I think this “content” might be a). my favorite topic of the week’s content so far or b.) I find philosophy the uttermost interesting. These slides brought up some of the most boggling questions, “if everything is open to question how can we know anything at all?” That question led to the different types of philosophical questions. metaphysical, epistemological… All to answer assumptions, implications, and distinctions within the world of Philosophy in itself. The slides ended with a painting called “Anatomy Lesson” and after these slides, I could not help but look at it with all sorts of assumptions, implications, and distinctions.
I really enjoyed reading through this presentation. There were many questions and concepts of philosophy that I have not heard of but found very interesting. Philosophy gives you a different perspective on interpreting and analyzing the world around us. It makes you consistently question your own understandings, awareness and reality itself. I love the saying “If everything is open to question how can we know anything at all?” And “Is wisdom just knowing how little you know?” With these being said, it explains that essentially our reality is what, why, and how we perceive it to be. With science, philosophy, and skepticism combined. The Rene Descartes quote “What can I know with any degree of certainty, when my senses so often mislead me?” made me think of how as humans we can be so uncomfortable with such uncertainties in life. With that as stated in the section What Can I Know, the “limitations of knowledge.” We really only can know and understand so much in regards to science and the reality of things.