I am quite sure that this is how undergraduates in philosophy see the whole thing:
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What's the deal with the Chevy Volt? Well, obviously, it is a cool car. A plug-in hybrid. The problem is in how to quantify its efficiency. Normal hybrids (the non-plug in type) have only one type of energy input, gasoline. The Volt can take gasoline or electricity input.
First, don't play with fire. Fire is dangerous. You can get hurt. Here is a video of two guys trying to (presumably) make the Miami Heat flaming basketball.
This just in:
Biofuels produced from switchgrass and post-harvest corn waste could significantly reduce the emissions that contribute to climate change, according to an analysis by EWG and University of California biofuels experts.
This has been mentioned elsewhere - like on the Machinist blog on Salon (where I first saw it) - but I can't resist saying something about it myself.
That's it. I'm becoming a radical skeptic. There's nothing we can know or do. :)
AHAHAHA!!! that is classic. i love it. I get it all! I received my Master's in computer science, but always had a fondness for Phil classes. This is just perfect.
I like it!
I seem to recall, vaguely, a lengthy all-text example along that line. Something about brains in jars on moving trains, perhaps ...? I can't seem to find a link to it now. (I didn't know there would be a quiz!) Oh, well, I should get back to work in the chinese room.
Gee, unlike Dennett's list of philosophical neologisms, I actually understood most of the references. Perhaps there's hope for me yet....
This is probably what #3 is referring to:
http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/Tissues.htm
Wots undergrads got tuh do with it!
This is wot filosofi is about ain it?
Well I didn't want to criticise academics who aren't philosophers, but that is how a lot of them see it, too.
This is the most awesome comic I've seen in the last year.
Aren't all academics philosophers? Or don't they, at least, think they have the right, as academics, to philosophize?
Yes.They just don't think that their philosophizing is philosophizing.
This is an especially common attitude amongst academics in the natural sciences.
Highly amusing.
I sincerely wish that my undergrad philosophy profs had been nearly that clever.
Rt
"Philosophy" is probably something that anyone with any intelligence has a natural inclination to engage in. And everyone thinks they're an expert. Kinda like politics. Forget Searle and Hauser - maybe there's even a philosophy gene ;) I haven't checked - is philosophy defined in the basic concepts list? Might be interesting.
I kinda remember this -- those shadows on the wall of the cave were explaining the length of the flagpole, iirc, but I just don't remember where the flagpole was with respect to the train tracks!
This is a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing it. Though it is deplorable they left the "brain in a vat" issue.
The comics did put my brain on fire. (Now, where did I put that vat...)
That is excellent. It's right up there with this comic, which I loved because it combined a former embarrassing dorky pastime, role playing games, with my current one, philosophy.
http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_031.htm