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The Trolley Problem

December 31, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Philosophy

While the sessions of the American Philosophical Society I described yesterday covered work I hadn’t directly studied during my One Year BA (albeit by philosophers I had taken courses on), the last session I attended dealt directly with something first discovered through a MOOC course: The Trolley Problem. For those unfamiliar with it, the Trolley […]

Final Exam

December 30, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: College Credit, Degree of Freedom Project, Philosophy

I’m typing this on my way back home from the 2013 Eastern Division conference of the American Philosophical Association, a conclave where over a thousand philosophers (mostly professors and graduate students) gathered in Baltimore to ponder the universe, torture job-seekers and fret about funding for the field. Before the holidays, I argued that one method […]

The One Year BA! – The Defense

December 19, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Independent Learners, Philosophy

Before explaining why I think taking 32+ online courses in twelve months might be the equivalent of a four-year BA’s worth of learning, I’d first like to ask readers to take a blank sheet of paper and write down the names of every course you took while in college. Depending on your age and memory […]

The Pragmatic Maxim

December 4, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Online Learning, Philosophy

Time again to take a look at MOOC and other forms of free learning from the perspective of another one of the subjects I’m studying: Pragmatic philosophy. I’ve been learning about Pragmatism through a second attempt at a self-study course, one which is going much more smoothly than the first, probably because excellent resources are […]

Yes I Kant

October 10, 2013 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Degree of Freedom Project, Online Learning, Philosophy, Time

It’s been a few months since I tried my hand at applying some of the subject matter I’ve been studying to issues arising out of the existence of massive open online courses. I previously used course topics such as economics, utilitarianism and entropy as a springboard for discussion of meta-matters related to MOOCs, but today […]

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