January 15, 1999
Descartes Goes Hollywood: Using Movies to Bring Philosophy to Life in the Classroom
A few of my undergraduate students approached me after my "Introduction to Philosophy" class recently to see what I thought about a hypothesis they were percolating. We had just finished watching an Australian movie called Proof, in which the main character is a skeptical blind man who takes photographs of his experiences and asks people to give verbal descriptions of the developed pictures. He translates each
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