RobbBB comments on Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobbBB 05 December 2012 05:33:06PM *  7 points [-]

10 weeks is pretty short! Sounds like a good challenge. I was assuming 16 weeks while trying to lay out a simple curriculum last night, and I got the following structure:

I. The Problem of Doubt

  • Week 1: What are we doing here?
  • Week 2: Case studies in ignorance and error
  • Week 3: Case studies in irrationality and arbitrariness
  • Week 4: Evaluating arguments
  • Week 5: Descartes and certainty
  • Week 6: Reasoning with uncertainty

II. The Problem of Death

  • Week 7: Test case: The immortality of the soul
  • Week 8: How to want to change your mind
  • Week 9: Test case: The self
  • Week 10: Learning how to learn things

III. The Problem of Life

  • Week 11: Vagueness, ambiguity, and semantics
  • Week 12: Meta-ethical confusions
  • Week 13: Rationality and decision theory
  • Week 14: Existentialism, nihilism, and pragmatism
  • Week 15: "Know thyself" and discovering your values
  • Week 16: Saving the world