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Questions Mar 16

Rawls, Turing & Searle, Singer-LH 38-40, FL 29-30, WGU -p.79.

Reports: #6 Carlos-Turing & Searle, Isaac W-Singer; #7 Tanner-Rawls, Kevin-Turing & Searle, Justin-Singer. If you missed your scheduled reporting date earlier due to illness, plan to report today.

LH

1. What did John Rawls call the thought experiment he believed would yield fair and just principles, and what was its primary device?

2. Under what circumstances would Rawls' theory permit huge inequalities of wealth between people?

3. What was the Imitation Game, and who devised a thought experiment to oppose it?

4. What, according to Searle, is involved in truly understanding something?

5. How do some philosophers think we might use computers to achieve immortality?

6. What does Peter Singer say we should sacrifice, to help stranger

7. Why did Singer first become famous?

8. How does Singer represent the best tradition in philosophy?

WGU

1. After Plato, the next philosopher to turn his attention to the details of child-rearing was who?

2. What's the first step of human reason, according to Kant?

3. If we have hope for moral progress, what do we want for the next generation?

4. What was Orwell's nightmare?

5. What "perfidious reversal leaves us permanently confused"?

6. What are you committed to, if you're committed to Enlightenment?

7. What is freedom, according to Rousseau and Kant?

8. What's the key to whether or not we grow up?

Discussion Questions
WGU
  • Should philosophers pay more attention to child-rearing and parenting? 36
  • What do you think Cicero meant by saying that philosophy is learning to die?
  • Do you feel fully empowered to "choose your life's journey"? If not, what obstacles prevent that? 37
  • In what ways do you think your parents' occupations influence the number of choices you'll be able to make in your life?
  • If you've read 1984 and Brave New World, which do you find the more "seductive dystopia"? 39
  • Are we confused about toys and dreams? 40
  • Do others make the most important decisions for you? 41
  • Do you "make a regular appointment with your body"? 42
  • Do you trust anyone over 30? 45
  • Is it "reasonable to expect justice and joy"? 49
  • Are you "committed to Enlightenment"? 51
  • Do the passions for glory and luxury make us wicked and miserable? 53
  • What does it mean to say there are no atheists in foxholes? Is it true? 54
  • Was Rousseau right about inequality and private property? 55
  • Should philosophy be taught to children, so as to become thinking adults? 57
  • Should children "yield to the commands of other people"? 61
  • Should parents "let the child wail"?
  • Are Rousseau and Kant right about the true definition of freedom? 62
  • Is Rousseau right about desire? 65
  • Did Rousseau's abandonment of his children discredit his thoughts on child-rearing? 69 Or show him to be a hypocrite for saying no task in the world is more important than raising a child properly? 72

5 comments:

  1. Nicholas Schionning

    LH2: If the money given to the super-rich would also benefit the poor.

    LH4:Being able to understand what it means.

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  2. Andrew Lacy (Sec #6)March 16, 2023 at 12:18 AM

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    LHP 1: He called the experiment “The Original Position”, and it’s primary device was to cause people to imagine a hypothetical way to rebuild and restructure a society, with the caveat that the person in charge would have no idea of where in this society they’d ultimately end up; the thought being that a reasonable person would try to make the most fair system possible, to minimize the risk of ending up with a bad lot in life.

    LHP 2: Rawls’ theory allowed for large inequalities in wealth between people ONLY if that wealth for the upper class directly factored back to the poorer classes, benefiting them in substantial ways

    LHP 3: “The Imitation Game” (or the “Turing Test”) was a thought experiment revolving around the subject giving and receiving answers to a screen of some kind, with no way of knowing whether that screen was feeding them answers from a real person, or a computer programmed to simulate answers. If the tester was unable to determine whether the responses they received were from a human or a computer, then the computer passed the Turing Test. John Searle however, devised the “Chinese Room” thought experiment to oppose it

    LHP 4: Searle believed that semantics were truly important in understanding something. To claim an “understanding” of something, the subject in questions can’t just receive input and give the correct output, but instead they need to be able to use logic and reasoning to absorb and process the information

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  3. Grant Rae section 6
    WGU
    11 I do think it takes courage to think and stand up for yourself and not just be a bot. Or a sheep just going with the pack because someone told you it was the right thing.
    13-16 I do think traveling significatly helps you to grow up and realize that we are just a small piece of this big world.

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  4. Felopater Melika #7

    LH

    1- He called it original position and called the primary device veil of ignorance
    2- If they were to benefit of the least advantaged member of society
    3- it was a test designed by Alan Turing to determine if a machine could exhibit intelligent behavior that isn't different from humans. John Searle devised the chinese room experiment to oppose it.
    4- conscious awareness
    5- by uploading a person's consciousness to a computer system
    6- some of our comfort and luxury
    7- because of his book animal liberation
    8- by emphasizing the importance of ethical reasoning and critical thinking

    WGU

    1- ability to take responsibility for oneself and actions and to be self sufficient and contribute to society
    2- because we are afraid of responsibility and love the comfort of immaturity
    3- because it allows us to make informed decisions and to take responsibility for the consequences of our actions.
    4- the belief that we can achieve complete freedom and autonomy without any limits or constraints
    5- to provide a framework for understanding the world

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  5. section 007
    LHP Q2. →If it would benefit the least advantaged member of society

    LHP Q4. → conscious awareness

    LHP Q6. →He says we should sacrifice our comfort and luxury

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