¿Qué facultad usamos para resolver la "Torre de Hanoi"?

Uno de los más clásicos pasatiempos lógico-matemáticos es la Torre de Hanoi. Resolverlo no es difícil, pero, ¿qué facultad usamos? ¿Percepción? ¿Memoria? ¿Imaginación? ¿Inteligencia? De entre las opciones que vemos en nuestra Unidad 2, ¿cuál o cuáles ponéis en juego?

Bueno, AQUÍ podéis practicar con más o menos discos y madurar una respuesta.

Encontraréis una explicación más amplia aquí.

Filosofía y ciencia: una intensa relación.

Sobre la cuestión de la relación entre la filosofía y la ciencia, que estamos viendo en la Unidad 1 de nuestras clases de Filosofía para 1º de Bachillerato, os propongo la lectura de un amplio y riguroso artículo sobre la cuestión. 

El texto ofrece la ventaja de tocar casi todos los aspectos relevantes de la cuestión: la naturaleza de sus respectivos problemas, su cercanía histórica, su actual complementariedad... Destaca especialmente la candente cuestión de si poner -y cuáles- límites éticos a la investigación científica.

Se agradecen comentarios.

ARTÍCULO

Unit 6: Philosophy and Human Being

As scheduled (well, as a matter of fact quite a few months later), here you'll find our new unit, Philosophy and Human Being to enlighten our classes.

UNIT 6

Language: A Practical Lesson

Here you have, dear disciples (!), the materials (with some interesting links inside) you'll need for our lesson on Thursday 21th. 

Language: A Practical Lesson.

Unit 5: Symbol and Language

Fresh from the oven! A bit larger than expected, here you have the complementary -even though absolutely necessary- materials regarding our fifth unit. Now you can proceed, dear pupils, to read, download, copy, study them or whatever you want (within certain limits).

UNIT 5


[This is the right link for the Exercise 11 on page 6: http://www.sltinfo.com/key-properties-of-language/ ]

Genes, memes and temes. The fascinating world of memetic.

Even coined by Richard Dawkins in his The Selfish Gene, back in 1976, the term meme (and its derivative memetic, among others), has been broadly spread by the British psychologist Susan Blackmore, especially in her book The Meme Machine (1999).

Memetic offers a new approach to the nature-nurture debate, which has been one of the main subjects in our Unit 4.

It is absolutely worth seeing this short lecture, given by Blackmore in California in 2008:

Other interesting sources could be the following:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un3ObVrDNxM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEIE3iifg1A
• http://www.desdeelexilio.com/2009/02/04/maquinas-de-memes-entrevista-a-susan-blackmore/

Nature and Culture

Here you have, dear students, the contents of our 4th UNIT.

The Experience Machine and some related issues.

Here you are, dear students, my proposals for our next session with Charlotte this coming Monday. 

Please try to produce as many ideas, answers or explanations as you can. 

I can't wait your wonderful performances!

CLASS GUIDE

Unit 3: The (main) Problems of Philosophy

Here it is! Still hot!

UNIT 3 

(Remember: you need to print out -or buy at the copy shop- pages 3-17)

A positivist worldview in Hard Times

At the very beginning of the Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times (1854, set in a fictitious industrial town in Northern England) we can see a remarkable example of a positivist point of view, that is a strong defence of the importance of being stuck to facts and avoid speculating.

We are going to read and coment this passage (see below) in class as an example of what a theoretical rationality must consider.

TEXT

And here is a fragment of a British TV series corresponding to the passage:

UNIT 1

Here you have the contents and exercises of the Unit 1.

Please remember your first homework: exercises 1 to 5 on page 6, referring to the definitions on the previous page.

UNIT 1