23Sept14 Beyond Angkor: How lasers revealed a lost city
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29245289
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Current Events (Aug/Sept)
Please post and/or comment on relevant current events here.
23Sept14 Beyond Angkor: How lasers revealed a lost city
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29245289
23Sept14 Beyond Angkor: How lasers revealed a lost city
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29245289
Friday, August 15, 2014
What is science? Examples
Here are some examples of modern scientific research:
Mark Changizi 6.45min http://video.msnbc.msn.com/dylan-ratigan-show/47788068#47788068
https://www.ted.com/playlists/163/7_talks_to_make_you_love_scien
https://www.ted.com/talks/francis_collins_we_need_better_drugs_now?language=en
https://www.ted.com/playlists/163/7_talks_to_make_you_love_scien
https://www.ted.com/talks/francis_collins_we_need_better_drugs_now?language=en
Science Autobiographies
Dear Class,
Post your science autobiographies here, and please comment on at least two of your classmates' posts.
My science autobiography:
My dad was an engineering and helped me with my mathematics, which I really liked. In middle school we had field trips to biology field sites and really enjoyed what I learned in and outside the classroom. I took biology, anatomy & physiology, and physics in high school and really liked them. In college I took a natural science course that focused on evolution and the extinction of dinosaurs, but nothing more from the "hard sciences." But, I loved thinking about medicine and especially ethical issues in science and medicine and so I went to graduate school to study medical ethics. I ended up studying philosophy of science for my Ph.D. My dissertation looked at feminist criticism in philosophy of science, particularly in computer science. Here at Thomas More, I try to hang out with the scientists as much as possible and in my professional research and teaching I focus on medical ethics, research ethics, death & dying, and philosophy of science.
I love philosophy of science and cannot wait to delve more into this course material with you!
Post your science autobiographies here, and please comment on at least two of your classmates' posts.
My science autobiography:
My dad was an engineering and helped me with my mathematics, which I really liked. In middle school we had field trips to biology field sites and really enjoyed what I learned in and outside the classroom. I took biology, anatomy & physiology, and physics in high school and really liked them. In college I took a natural science course that focused on evolution and the extinction of dinosaurs, but nothing more from the "hard sciences." But, I loved thinking about medicine and especially ethical issues in science and medicine and so I went to graduate school to study medical ethics. I ended up studying philosophy of science for my Ph.D. My dissertation looked at feminist criticism in philosophy of science, particularly in computer science. Here at Thomas More, I try to hang out with the scientists as much as possible and in my professional research and teaching I focus on medical ethics, research ethics, death & dying, and philosophy of science.
I love philosophy of science and cannot wait to delve more into this course material with you!
Introductions & Expectations
Hello Young Philosophers! Welcome to the best class, ever! Who is a fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson?!
http://www.cosmosontv.com/clips/310562371604
http://www.cosmosontv.com/watch/272421443803
Watch at least from minute 6 to minute 15.
Woo hoo! Knowledge, science, philosophy -- what could be better?!
http://www.cosmosontv.com/clips/310562371604
http://www.cosmosontv.com/watch/272421443803
Watch at least from minute 6 to minute 15.
Woo hoo! Knowledge, science, philosophy -- what could be better?!
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