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Anarchy
As my old supervisor, Dudley Knowles, used to say, the anarchist is not typically found skulking outside the Houses of Parliament with a bomb beneath her long, black coat – the philosophical anarchist is a gentle soul with a belief … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged anarchism, anarchy, Dudley Knowles, political philosophy
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Sapere Aude
In 1784 Kant asked a question: What is Enlightenment? His answer was that it was having the courage to use one’s own reason: Sapere Aude – dare to be wise. In order for this to happen, he said, we must be free … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Critical pedagogy, Philosophy
Tagged Kant, responsibility, sapere aude
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Uncomfortable thoughts
A philosophical problem has the form: “I don’t know my way about”. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, § 123 Philosophy makes my head hurt. It’s hard, and it makes me think, and it challenges me to justify my inchoate beliefs when I just … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Learning, Philosophy, Teaching, Wittgenstein
Tagged discomfort, learning, Wittgenstein
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Posh white boys
There’s a common assumption that there is a gender bias in STEM subjects in HE, but a recent study released in Science has discovered that this is not actually the real story, and that actually philosophy is among the five subjects with the … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Critical pedagogy, Philosophy, University
Tagged academia, gender bias, Philosophy
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On Creativity
This week in #rhizo14 we’re meant to be thinking about creativity. Some people are running with this and going and doing lots of lovely creative things, like this image on this, others are engaging with #ds106. I’ve been really busy catching … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Academia, D&G, Philosophy, Wedding, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, Bruffee, creativity, D&G, Dasein, Heidegger
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Reading, writing and forgetting
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.” Nietzsche, somewhere I often like to begin my writing with a quotation from a philosopher, and this one is particularly apt for this week’s #rhizo14 topic Is … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Philosophy, Reading, Wittgenstein, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, parrot sketch, Phaedrus, Plato, Tractatus, Wittgenstein
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Types of knowledge
If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false. Wittgenstein, On Certainty Section 205 There’s two rival epistemological theories which we teach to our first years: foundationalism and coherentism. I wonder if these might be helpful in … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, D&G, Philosophy, Rhizomes, Wittgenstein
Tagged #rhizo14, D&G, Descartes, epistemology, Quine
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I have the questions for all of your answers
Years ago (gosh, at least ten years, how shocking to realise), I ended up moderating a public Philosophy forum. It’s long gone now but I am still friends with many of my fellow moderators including the wonderful Andrew Jeffrey, who … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Academia, D&G, Learning, Philosophy, Plato, Rhizomes, Teaching, University
Tagged #rhizo14, HE, Nietzsche, Plato, uncertainty
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Duck-rabbit
I have a very talented friend called Katy, who studied Philosophy at Crichton campus and heard about Wittgenstein’s duck-rabbit. Here is it from the original Philosophical Investigations II, XI (p194). Wittgenstein is talking about the difference between “seeing”and “seeing as”, (or … Continue reading
Dichotomies
I like making lists, and I also like making tables. I know that the world’s not really black and white, but I taking an idea and looking at it in two ways – I like dichotomies. I’ve been playing around … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, MOOC, Philosophy, Rhizomes, Writing
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