“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

similar topics

• Hume's guillotine: can you build a bridge from 'is' to 'ought'? Can we derive how things should be from how they are in nature?
• Science can describe what happens in your brain when you see red, but nobody can measure the redness you actually experience. Maybe my red is your green, and we have used the same word all our lives without ever seeing the same thing. How would you prove otherwise?
• If there are infinitely many universes, countless copies of you are out there making every decision differently. Does that make your wrong choice in this universe trivial, since another you got it right somewhere else, or is this the only you that counts?
• The zombie argument: is a being physically identical to us but with no inner experience possible? If consciousness is just brain function, why can't we explain what it feels like from the inside?
• The Gettier problem: is a justified true belief really enough to count as knowledge? If a belief turns out to be true by sheer luck, should we call it knowledge at all?