welcome all.
my classes are a bit unorthodox.
for example, the class rudiments: homework revision, strict. "home," not 10 minute-before-triff-class. "work," give it time. be patient.
class participartion: mandatory. talk or die. you're never wrong, students are young by definition (a 60 y old student is young in my book). let's put it this way. you're lucky: if there is a time to be wrong this is the time. i'm with you.
from the git-go you need to learn to build arguments and debate them.
why? beliefs work in synch with structural propositions. you do what you think. we have to get into the thinking to modify the doing.
what's an argument? a nugget, a treasure. you have to learn how to build it.
in class we analyze arguments and proceed to take them apart. this is what i call problematizing.
philosophy is a problematizing activity.
