Podcast de Julia Galef "Rationally Speaking" sur le libre arbitre:
"In this episode we tackle the never ending debate about free will, which
David Hume famously defined as “a power of acting or of not acting,
according to the determination of the will.” We do this with a couple
of twists. We begin by examining the concept of free will from the
standard philosophical perspective, then ask what — if anything — modern
neuroscience can tell us about it, and come back to the interface
between philosophy and science to explore how the two approaches may
complement each other."
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Quelques points relevés pendant l'épisode:
Comment définir le libre arbitre?
Comment gérer le déterminisme?
3 cas principaux:
- compatibilistes: l'univers est déterministe excepté pour la physique quantique.
- libertarian compatibiliste : L'univers n'est pas déterministe, mais s'il l'était il n'y aurait pas de libre arbitre.
- déterministe incompatibiliste : L’univers est déterministe, donc pas de libre arbitre.
Longue explication de l'experience de Libet
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mercredi 22 janvier 2020
[EN] Pourquoi s’intéresser aux sciences humaines
Podcast de Julia Galef "Rationally Speaking" sur les sciences humaines
"Universities all around the country are closing programs in the humanities, at least in part because of the increasing widespread attitude that higher education should be treated as a business, and that programs that bring in money in the form of high tuitions from students and external grants are to be prioritized. SUNY Albany, for example, announced in the Fall of 2010 that the departments of French, Italian, Classics, Russian and Theater Arts were being eliminated. So, what is the point of studying languages, literature, history or philosophy? Can we, and perhaps more importantly, should we quantify their value? Can we have universities that focus only on science and marketable skills?"
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Quelques points relevés pendant l'épisode:
"Universities all around the country are closing programs in the humanities, at least in part because of the increasing widespread attitude that higher education should be treated as a business, and that programs that bring in money in the form of high tuitions from students and external grants are to be prioritized. SUNY Albany, for example, announced in the Fall of 2010 that the departments of French, Italian, Classics, Russian and Theater Arts were being eliminated. So, what is the point of studying languages, literature, history or philosophy? Can we, and perhaps more importantly, should we quantify their value? Can we have universities that focus only on science and marketable skills?"
lien vers la page d'origine: ici
Quelques points relevés pendant l'épisode:
En quoi les sciences sont différentes des sciences humaines?
Les
sciences fondamentales apportent rarement des avancées technologiques
intéressantes (apprendre la photosynthèse au collège ne sert à rien,
etc).Ce qu'on y apprend n'est que de la culture générale scientifique :
peu de méthodes.
Ce n'est pas différent d'apprendre l'histoire, ou une langue étrangère.
L'art et la littérature permettent d'apprendre via le storytelling.
Selon
des tests les étudiants n'apprennent pas grand-chose pendant leurs
études (même en sciences), et la littérature permet un apprentissage
détourné.
Concernant l'enseignement de la
littérature: écrire correctement est un entraînement, pour bien écrire,
il est utile de faire de la littérature.
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