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There are places to discuss these issues intelligently and philosophically; lesswrong.com comes to mind. I agree it's a shame that the classroom debate isn't b
by endtime 16y ago
There are places to discuss these issues intelligently and philosophically; lesswrong.com comes to mind. I agree it's a shame that the classroom debate isn't better, but undergrads are really at the beginning of their intellectual maturation, and many of them think of philosophy class not as a place to learn how to think about things but as an arena in which they must defend their own naive intuition.
(I also took a mind-body problem class as an undergrad, at Georgetown. It actually wasn't as bad as the one you describe, though nor was it perfect.)
- jacques_chester 16y ago> ... many of them think of philosophy class not as a place to learn how to think about things but as an arena in which they must defend their own naive intuition. Isn't this why the Socratic method was invented? Rather than simply argue, Socrates asked questions and let his interlocutors draw their own conclusions.