Discipline: Social Science - Philosophy

For Journal 8 please select one reading from Chapter 12 (‘What is Race? What is Gender?’).  Summarize-In your own words – the argument given in the reading and explain whether you agree or disagree and why. Please make sure your submission is at least 250 words. I HAVE ATTACHED THE READING

Please take this opportunity to start thinking about your final assignment for PHI 2010. Your final assignment will be submitted during Module 14. For your final assignment get ready to delve deeper into applied philosophy.  Please choose a disciplinary area that you could see yourself potentially working in one day (or that you would simply like to […]

Identity In this discussion board we focus on identity.  Please consider and reflect on the following questions: What is it that makes you you?  What is your identity?       ‘ In Chapter 11 Derek Parfit (“Personal Identity” page 520) describes a situation where he seems to be both on Earth and on Mars at […]

PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING IN 50 WORDS OR MORE: According to Parfit, the person on Mars is an extension of the first person who lived through teletransportation. But the person here on Earth is also an extension of someone who came from nothing. Neither can be the same as the original person. Parfit concludes […]

PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING IN 50 WORDS OR LESS: According to Bostrom’s three options for simulation hypothesis, the first one is that almost all of humanity goes extinct before reaching technological maturity, the second one is that the ancestors that are creating this simulation loose interest in continuing the simulation, and the third is […]

There is an important relationship between prudence and virtue in Aristotle’s ethics. To fully understand his conception of virtue, it is necessary to understand his conception of prudence and how it relates to virtue. Describe the relationship between prudence and virtue, according to Aristotle. Does Aristotle think that prudence is a necessary component of virtue?

 RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING IN 50 WORDS OR MORE: Hey Everyone, In Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument, he talks about the possibility that our universe might be a computer simulation created by a highly advanced civilization. The three possibilities are: 1. We are in many simulations 2. We are in the technological post human stage 3. […]

What is Aristotle’s general conception of prudence, as he describes it in Book VI, Chapters 1-7 ofNicomachean Ethics? How does deliberation and goal-directed action relate to prudence? What is the end to which prudence aims (i.e. what is its goal)? Contrast Aristotle’s general conception of prudence with his general conception of wisdom. Page 86-92

In preparation for the ‘halfway point’ of our class please take this time to reflect on what we’ve covered so far in class. What has had the most impact so far? Why?   Please make sure your submission is academic, grammatically sound, and at least 250 words. THIS IS FOR PHILOSOPHY-USE SOME OF THE ASSIGNMENTS YOU […]

Are Things as They Appear? The philosopher Nick Bostrom gives us three possibilities in “Are We Living In a Computer Simulation”.  Please read this inclusion in Chapter 9 (page 442) and review the following video: Nick Bostrom’s Simulation ArgumentLinks to an external site. Which of the 3 options presented by Bostrom seems most plausible to […]