This blog is doomed. This blog is doomed. I've been told that it's only faculty blog hosted in this was by a KSU server. Even if I'm not violating any policies, my time at KSU is limited. Thus, the future of this blog is rather limited. As such, I won't be contributing anything more to it. For anyone who's interested, I will be maintaining my other blogger blog, Free the Turtles and I've started a new blog on wordpress, and then what? , which is no longer anonymous.  ¶ #

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  Argument Diagramming Principles of Thinking People, just in time for us to move on to a new chapter, I've started getting some solid ideas about how to teach argument diagramming.

In case anyone is interested in being able to refine their diagramming skills, say to do well on the final, I'm going to be constructing a list interesting and useful web resources in this post. (I'll revise it in the future.) For those who are really interested in argument diagramming, the next series of posts in this blog will be devoted to my reflections on how to teach this stuff.

Argument Mapping  ¶ #

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  Another member of my 20th C. Philosophy class has been publishing a blog. Linda has been publishing a chronicle (http://furtilground.blogspot.com/) the weeks she spent studying art in Italy this past summer.  ¶ #

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  Jewel Of The Kingdom Another student has set up a blog, Jewel Of The Kingdom,
in this case, Jake will be chronicling his year plus on active duty in Bosnia.

This looks to be a very promising read.  ¶ #

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  the girl who did not believe in rain I once knew a girl who did not believe in rain.

She never wore a rain coat or carried an umbrella. If you were walking with her in the rain and asked her "Aren't you getting wet?" or "Is water falling on your head?", she would answer "no".

She acknowledged that plants needed water to thrive, but claimed to be as ignorant of where that water came from as she was of the details of photosynthesis.

"Yes," she might say "Plants need water, but I'm only vaguely aware of how plants work, so I'm not going to pretend otherwise."

She was however smart enough that if someone started a longish rant about chlorophyll, she'd be able to trip them up, though I never saw her talk to a botanist. She thought that meteorologists were all too insane to talk to, so trying to explain weather patterns to her was about as useful as explaining the details of the global alien conspiracy to me.

The person I really knew would acknowledge the rain whenever it made her feel as if she were in a Jane Austen novel. The stance was a game, an affectation, albeit one that often required becoming uncomfortably wet. Though it was really quite charming, it would be more interesting to consider the character of the Girl Who Does Not Believe in Rain.

Can she ever be caught on the horns of a dilemma?
Is there a way to play the game against her? (and let's be clear this is a game and GWNBR, ok call her Gwen, is playing.)

Postscript:

My meditations on Gwen are inspired both by conversations in my Introduction to Philosophy class, as well as my recent discovery of the online comic strip 1/0.  ¶ #

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  Zach's Thru-hike 2006 May I present Zach's Thru-hike 2006, yet another member of the Twentieth Century Philosophy class who has chosen to pursue adventure as far from Kent as practical?

If not, well it's too late now, isn't it?  ¶ #

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  Mark Smolinski, who was in my Twentieth Century Philosophy class last year, is documenting his European travels on his blog. Since the most common visitors to this site seem to be people who were enrolled in that class, I thought it might be of significant interest.  ¶ #

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