Project Selector Interface - Dir. William Angelette MA, MS.

Angelette Adjunctive Health Services
92 Market Street
Balranald , NSW 2715

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You weren't born yesterday. You come to this course with all the wisdom and knowledge that your life has provided you. T his information is valuable and represents a significant portion of your contribution to the course. Lets find out where you stand and get a baseline of your appreciation of philosophy.

We begin the course considering Meta-philosophy; thinking through a suitable definition for Philosophy and examining our meta-cognitions of that process. We have a cursory glimpse at some early philosopher' attempts to consider the nature of reality through reason and experience apart from religion, myth, art or power. We label this branch of philosophy Meta-physics and it includes, among other studies, ontology-of what is, cosmology-of space time and objects, and mereology-of part to whole relations.

META-PHILOSOPHY

ANCIENT

One important measure of your progress in Philosophy is determined by the ability to examine and critique important philosophical arguments. You are required to master an outline form that provides a schemata for clearly presenting your ideas. Examine the following "Toy Journal Article" It's deliberately very bad. Check out the "Toy exegesis and critique." Look for something else wrong with the journal article and create your own analysis.

Measure your sucess according to the following:

Here again is that basic outline form more briefly - The Basic Points

Below we look at a more detailed version of this writing style:

Your going to need some basic tools of logic

Pearson provides us with the this heuristic.

LOGIC

Now we'll apply all this to a reading assignment: Plato's Theaetetus

We're shifting the focus.

Initially our exploration of ancient Philosophy focused on Meta-physics. Meta-physics is often contrasted with Epistemology. While Meta-physics is concerned with the furniture of the world, Epistemology deals with the nature and scope of knowledge.

We'll focus on a portion of this dialogue that considers and then rejects an identification of knowledge with perception.

Below is an example of line by line exegesis for that section.

Angelette Adjunctive Health Services
92 Market Street
Balranald , NSW 2715