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Unit Outline

1. Knowledge
1. Simon Blackburn - "Knowledge" 
2. The School of Life - Rene Descartes (YouTube)
3. Allegory of the Cave (Assignment)  (Reading)
4. Epistemology Notes (PowerPoint)
1. Optional: 8-Bit Philosophy - Plato (YouTube)
2. Optional: 8-Bit Philosophy - Descartes (YouTube)
5. Reading Quiz on Blackburn
6. Descartes Meditations  (Discussion)
1. Optional: Thunk - Cartesian Dualism and the Mind (YouTube)
7. "What Is True" Packet
1. Optional: Thunk - The Matrix & Artificial Reality (YouTube)
2. Mind
1. Mind Notes (PowerPoint)
2. The Divided Mind
1. Jonathan Haidt - Happiness Hypothesis Chapter 1
2. Optional: Thunk - How Emotions Make You More Rational (YouTube)
3. Thunk - Black Lives Matter & Dual Process Theory (YouTube)
4. CGP Grey - This Video Will Make You Angry (YouTube)
3. Consciousness
1. V-Sauce - What is Consciousness (YouTube)
2. Dollhouse - S1E4 - "Man on the Street"
4. Artificial Intelligence
1. Battlestar Galactica (?)
2. Crash Course - Artificial Intelligence & Personhood (YouTube)
5. Determinism vs. Free Will 
1. Community - S3E4 - Remedial Chaos Theory
2. Crash Course - Determinism vs. Free Will (YouTube)
3. Discussion
4. Optional: Thunk - Do We Have Free Will?  (YouTube)

Vocabulary / Names

• Rationalism vs. Empiricism
• Schools of Philosophy:
• Epistemology
• Metaphysics
• Logic
• Ethics
• Aesthetic
• Political Philosophy
• Plato
• Forms
• The Republic  / Allegory of the Cave
• The Apology
• The Symposium
• Rene Descartes
• Meditations on First Philosophy
• Cogito Ergo Sum
• The Evil Demon
• Ball of Wax
• Ship of Thesus Problem
• A Priori
• Nick Bostrom
• The Simulation Argument
• Solipsism
• Qualia
• Theory of Mind
• The Sally-Anne Test
• Zombies & Mutants
• Dualism vs. Monism
• Consciousness
• Memory, Personality, and "Ghost"
• Determinism vs. Free Will