Reason And Responsibility

Only class I had on Fri­day was Phi­los­o­phy, and I’m now at one for three in the not-​stuttering depart­ment. The pro­fes­sor seems pretty cool, actu­ally… elo­quent and funny. He likes to poke at phi­los­o­phy cliches.

Any­way, the book for the class is Rea­son and Respon­si­bil­ity, and I hear it’s a good but dense read. My first read­ing assign­ment is the text form of St. Anselm’s Onto­log­i­cal Argu­ment for the exis­tence of God. If you’re inter­ested, you can bor­row my book for the full text, or check out the mil­lions of sum­maries online, and we can dis­cuss it. It’s inter­est­ing to me that a lot of philo­soph­i­cal issues are bro­ken down into log­i­cal proofs, and that I can use my old ECS 20 skills on it. That’s two classes this quar­ter with a basis in dis­crete math! This will give me a lot of prac­tice with truth tables in case I do decide to take the LSAT.