Discussion Questions

-William James

When does any object have a truth value for you?

When does any object have a truth value for William James?

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-Arthur Eddington

How far is Eddington’s theory, which is based on philosophy of science, from Plato’s theory of the forms from the allegory of the cave?

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-John Rawls 

If you knew nothing about your talents, gender, race, economic standing, or education, then what type of society would you want to live in?

1. If it was up to you, what type of society would you construct?

2. What would Rawls say about your society?

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Nagel

What does it mean to have structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view, and how does this help with the understanding of Nagel's phenomenological approach of what it is like to be a bat?

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