Philosophy 101 Unit 1

Here’s this week’s open thread. Some quick announcements:

1) I set up the avatar system, so you should be able to upload images so we can recognize who you are. For some brief instructions, go here. I left out a rating system, but I trust you guys to stay reasonably appropriate. 

2) We will be discussing Meditation 2 on Thursday, but you probably also want to read Meditation 3 to stay on top of the literature. My current schedule has us discussing Med. 2 on Thursday, and Med. 3-6 on Tuesday of next week, with hopefully enough room left over to have a small informal debate next Thursday. We won’t be going over the rest of the Meditations in as much detail, but I’ll be drawing from the rest of the text, so it might be a good idea to read ahead as much as possible. It is heavy reading, but it goes quickly. Pay particular attention to the proofs of God’s existence given in Med. 3 and 5. 

3) Again, post 1 is due this Thursday at 11:59pm. Also, to clear up any confusion, you have a weekly R&L thread due every Tuesday morning before class on the material from the previous week. 

4) Finally, I am about to start updating WordPress, so things might be a bit funky for a bit. Hang in there, the system will be back up shortly. When I am done I’ll start in on the grading. I’ll update the thread when I am done.

UPDATE: see comments below