Final Paper Instructions For your final paper, you must select a novel, poem, st

Final Paper Instructions
For your final paper, you must select a novel, poem, story, television show or film and present a detailed analysis of it using ideas from the course.
Essentially, this is an expanded version of the midterm task and you may wish to develop your midterm paper. For example, it is possible to present a paper which considers the text which you wrote about in the midterm alongside one or more additional texts.
Please note that you can re-use ideas and quotations from your midterm paper but you must not copy chunks of text from the midterm.
As with the midterm, you might wish to consider one of the following areas:
How do the texts destabalise the border between humans and animals/aliens/robots/machines/cyborgs etc?
How do the texts question humanism or the humanist tradition?
Limits of rationality
Limits of human perception
Contamination of humanism
Ethical shortcomings of humanism
Issues concerning anthropocentrism
How do the texts explore what happens when human-nonhuman boundaries begin to come undone?
How do the texts deal with/represent non-human subjectivity?
How do the texts demonstrate the continuities between humanism and transhumanism?
How do the texts engage with the ethics of posthumanism?
How do the texts explore the connections between posthumanism and feminism?
Seminar papers are 5000-6500 words.
Referat papers are 3750 words.
Note that all Liberal Arts and Dual Degree students must submit a seminar paper for their major and their minor tracks.
The paper will account for 60% of the final grade.
It is due on 01.05.22 at 13:00
It should be submitted as an MS Word document via Moodle.
As with the midterm, you should include a one paragraph summary of each primary text.

Final Paper Instructions For your final paper, you must select a novel, poem, st

Final Paper Instructions
For your final paper, you must select a novel, poem, story, television show or film and present a detailed analysis of it using ideas from the course.
Essentially, this is an expanded version of the midterm task and you may wish to develop your midterm paper. For example, it is possible to present a paper which considers the text which you wrote about in the midterm alongside one or more additional texts.
Please note that you can re-use ideas and quotations from your midterm paper but you must not copy chunks of text from the midterm.
As with the midterm, you might wish to consider one of the following areas:
How do the texts destabalise the border between humans and animals/aliens/robots/machines/cyborgs etc?
How do the texts question humanism or the humanist tradition?
Limits of rationality
Limits of human perception
Contamination of humanism
Ethical shortcomings of humanism
Issues concerning anthropocentrism
How do the texts explore what happens when human-nonhuman boundaries begin to come undone?
How do the texts deal with/represent non-human subjectivity?
How do the texts demonstrate the continuities between humanism and transhumanism?
How do the texts engage with the ethics of posthumanism?
How do the texts explore the connections between posthumanism and feminism?
Seminar papers are 5000-6500 words.
Referat papers are 3750 words.
Note that all Liberal Arts and Dual Degree students must submit a seminar paper for their major and their minor tracks.
The paper will account for 60% of the final grade.
It is due on 01.05.22 at 13:00
It should be submitted as an MS Word document via Moodle.
As with the midterm, you should include a one paragraph summary of each primary text.

Can Computers think and understand? Some have thought that if a computer can pa

Can Computers think and understand?
Some have thought that if a computer can pass the Turing test, then it has thoughts and can understand language. What is the Turning test? And is passing the Turing test sufficient for showing that a computer can think?  Explain and discuss the Mayan room argument, and discuss its relation to the Turing test. If computers do have thoughts and understanding should we be worried?
Make sure the ideas are fully developed and simply explained. Also, make sure the citations include the pages numbers. Make sure to include at least a couple quotes from your source(s), and make sure the quotes are introduced and explained. Use the first person. Make your first sentence engaging. Present your thesis in a way that makes your reader want to find out what you have to say about it. Provide reasons or evidence to support your view. Write for a reader who has not studied philosophy. Have a descriptive title, one that wouldn’t work just as well for anyone writing on the topic.

FOR THE DISCUSSION Your Response Post (approximately 500 words) should be based

FOR THE DISCUSSION
Your Response Post (approximately 500 words) should be based on a key idea from one of your classmate’s Initial Posts.
Read through the Discussion Thread for the Week’s Initial Posts and select one post that presents an interpretation of the readings that is different from yours or a new idea that deepens or opens out the meaning of the readings. In this Response Post be sure to include:
1. The name of the student whose post you are referencing; (please put the student’s name in Bold for easier referencing)
2. A summary of the interpretation or new idea that caught your attention;
3. Your reflection on the importance of that insight.

Reading for the Essay Alain de Botton: What is Art For? or paste this URL.  http

Reading for the Essay
Alain de Botton: What is Art For?
or paste this URL.  https://youtu.be/ZVlQOytFCRI
Introduction for the Essay
Finally, for the Essay, I will have you read a short article by the contemporary British philosopher and popular author, Alain de Botton, who argues that Art is and always has functioned as a medicine cabinet for what ails society: whatever you’ve got too much or too little of, Art can provide a balance for you and enrich your life. In this, Botton echoes some of what Nietzsche claimed the Greeks did with their tragedy. It will be up to you to decide if either of them has proved their case to your satisfaction, and to give your own philosophical account of the purpose of Art.

3.    Write a paper in which you discuss your beliefs in terms of the four philo

3.    Write a paper in which you discuss your beliefs in terms of the four philosophies and explain which of these resonates with you the most and why. Your paper should be well structured and logically organized to demonstrate how your teaching philosophy (i.e., values and beliefs) relates to what you will do in the classroom (e.g., instructional strategies, use of technology, role of collaboration, types of discipline, respectful rapport).  This 2-4-page paper should describe your core beliefs about teaching and learning and how these beliefs will be enacted in the classroom.  To support your ideas, please provide specific examples and connect these to at least 1-2 specific philosophies. Include an Annotated Bibliography