General Discussion: Introduction to Philosophy

Logic is hard to incorporate into an intro course I think. A module on logic can’t really cover any technical material. Perhaps the way to go is to include logic in either metaphysics, in epistemology, or expand that part to logic & philosophy of science.

Personally, I tend to think that for an intro class it might be good to organize the chapters around questions. These of course will roughly align with existing topics. But questions are a good entry into the topics, and it’ll help us avoid the pitfall of just describing a bunch of theories rather than actually explaining what these are theories of and why one would subscribe to them. It will also make it easier to remix the book if it’s divided into smaller chunks focussing on questions. You could pick all the ethics and political phil questions for an ethics intro, or just one central question from each section for a general intro.

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