http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:03:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Those interested in Aristotle’s four causes might be interested in this article on Aristotle’s theory of causation in the SEP. http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com/2008/10/20/aristotles-four-causes/ The Women’s History  Month Committee is sponsoring an essay contest on the theme of "Women & the Environment". The contest is open to all ACC students. Those who wish to participate can get a small amount of extra credit on the miscellaneous section of the portfolio by including a copy ... http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com/2008/10/20/womens-history-month-student-essay-contest/ Don’t forget the second Ethics Resource Center Event coming up on October 23.     Identity and Politics Thursday, October 23, 2008 EVC Room 8500, 7-9 pm In light of the upcoming elections, this panel will focus on how political identity is formed and how identity informs politics, especially race, gender, and their ... http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com/2008/10/16/erc-event/ Don’t forget the Ethics Resource Center Event coming up on October 9.   WHAT IS IDENTITY? Thursday, October 9, 2008, EVC, Room 8500, 7-9 pm Who are you? Come to the ERC’s kick-off event for the year and begin the process of finding out! A panel of ACC professors will ... http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com/2008/09/29/erc-event-on-october-9/ For Sommers notation we go back to the parts of the categorical proposition. (1) universe of discourse (2) judgment (which can be affirmative or negative) (3) quantity of subject (which can be universal or particular) (4) subject term (which can be positive, like ‘punished’, or negative, like ‘unpunished’) (5) quality of predication (which can be ... http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com/2008/09/22/sommers-notation-the-basics/ A good discussion (in mp3 format) on Socrates’ approach to philosophy at the "philosophy bites" podcast. http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com/2008/09/16/mm-mccabe-on-socratic-method/ Here are the steps to solving categorical syllogisms with triliteral diagrams. If you are drawing conclusions: (1) Define your universe of discourse. This is the background box. (2) Assign letters to your terms and divide your background box according to the letters. Put the middle term in the middle to simplify things. (3) Put ... http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com/2008/09/15/categorical-syllogism-the-basics/ We’ve begun categorical syllogisms. Don’t worry if you’re still not getting the whole thing; there are a lot of working parts, but once you start keeping track of them, they snap together beautifully. To diagram categorical propositions, we used biliteral diagrams, two-term diagrams. That makes sense: categorical propositions have a subject term ... http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com/2008/09/08/categorical-syllogisms/ You can read Lewis Carroll’s Symbolic Logic online at Google Book. And you can read his closely related work, The Game of Logic, in PDF at Internet Archive. Besides being enjoyable to read on their own, these are the sources for the logical diagrams that we will be working with this week. http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com/2008/09/03/lewis-carrolls-symbolic-logic/ (1) Decide what the universe of discourse is. Then draw a box to represent it. (2) Determine what the subject term and predicate term is. Then assign them letters. (3) Divide your universe of discourse using your subject term and predicate term. For instance, suppose that your subject term is ‘cat’ and your ... http://bwatsonfall08.blogsome.com/2008/09/03/how-to-diagram-categorical-propositions/