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Freire and the Truman Show

Posted on March 28, 2015 by | 1 comment

While reading Paulo Freire’s, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, I couldn’t help but relate his depiction of the narrative style of education to the life of Jim Carrey’s character, Truman Burbank, in the satirical film, The Truman Show.  Continue reading →

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Posted in Contemporary Philosophy, Education, Experience, Identity, Knowledge, Perception, Pop Culture

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Perception of a Dress

Posted on February 27, 2015 by | 2 comments

A recent picture of a dress has taken the internet by storm. Someone posted a picture of a dress online and many people view the dress as blue and gold and a comparable amount of people view the dress as white and black. This simple dress sparked hot disputes all over the world. Although this discussion of the optical illusion dress seems totally irrelevant to our discussion of knowledge, as Megan Garber points out in her article in the Atlantic, it creates a point of discussion where people discuss where they fit into the world.  Continue reading →

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Posted in Ancient Philosophy, Education, Experience, Knowledge

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Heart of Darkness

Posted on February 21, 2015 by | 2 comments

My older brother and I had a discussion one night during Winter Break. Granted, I was ready to go to sleep and I was not ready to have a long discussion on philosophical matters. And what he said does not represent what we both thought at all. It was something that he thought was interesting and worth talking about, even though the topic itself was a little taboo.

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Immanuel Kant on Intellectual Property

Posted on February 18, 2015 by | 3 comments

I was warned that Kant is difficult to read, but I was skeptical of these claims. Turns out, the warnings were pretty well founded. Here’s what I got from reading the first few pages of his Critique of Pure Reason. Continue reading →

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