Hilary Putnam

Freedom Writers In the movie “Freedom Writers” (2007), a female teacher tries to make a racial difference by separating students in a class occupied by black, Latino and Asian high school freshmen. Her markings lead to a clear indication of diversity and a sense of racial disparity within the society. As part of the review of freedom writers’ movie, I will discuss racial disparity and diversity issue while trying to connect the content of the movie to the current state of the society. As such,…

receive her pilot’s license. In 1928 she was the first women to officially have flown over the Atlantic Ocean. She was trying to circumnavigate the globe from the equator and while doing so she disappeared in 1937. Earhart was friends with Dorothy Putnam and there was a rumor going around that there was an affair going on between Earhart and Dorothy’s…

Amelia Earhart Women should try to do the impossible like men and when they don’t succeed it should be a challenge for others. Even though she tried to fly around the world and failed, Amelia Earhart was a very determined women and should be remembered. Because she fought for international peace and equality for woman. She also was the first person to attempt to fly around the world. Amelia Earhart had a lot of firsts. On December 28, 1920 pilot Frank Hawks gave Amelia Earhart her first…

Rachel Gordon December 12th, 2016 AP World Mr.Fragapane Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and author. Despite her notorious disappearance, Amelia was shown to be a role model for women, and young girls everywhere. Women were often oppressed in the 1920’s and 1930’s, and not given the same opportunities as men. Amelia not only formulated The Ninety-Nines (an organization for female pilots), but she also wrote best selling books about her flying experiences, set world…

by Robert Putnam is primarily summarized as our disengagement from the involvement in our communities. Putnam describes to the reader a decline in the civic engagement initially through our politics, particularly in the decline in “turnout [of] national elections over the last three decades,” “attendance [of] a public meeting on town or school affairs,” and “attending a political rally or speech, serving on a committee of some local organization, and working for a political party.” (Putnam) He…

periods of theatre history, such as the conventions of the Greek, Roman, and Elizabethan eras. I will continue to discuss staging conventions by analyzing and comparing different plays to these eras including Trojan Women by Euripides, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn, and The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. In the Ancient Greek era some of the most prominent aspects of staging conventions…

Lost in Lust The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin, and conceived by Rebecca Feldman, explores a lighthearted event, as the play title suggests, a middle school spelling bee. I watched the production on February 7, 2016 at 2:00 PM at the University of Washington’s Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse. This production was directed by Brandon Ivie, musically directed by Jordyn Meeker, and choreographed by Steven Sofia. This musical…

Created in 1981 by Hilary Putnam the Brain in a Vat theory is about a science fiction possibility of our brains quite literally being in a vat. Hilary Putnam uses referencing or representation, the Turing Test, the rules of language and a host of examples to establish that the statement “we are brains in a vat” is a self-refuting statement. He asks the question “Could we, if we were brains in a vat in this way, say or think that we were?” (Putnam 1981, p7) and comes to the conclusion that we…

behaviors), and other mental states.” (Pete Mandik 109) This statement made by Mandik is an attempt to defeat Type-Identity Theory. Hilary Putnam, an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, brought up what is known as the “multiple realizability” (Hilary Putnam) which is an essential argument that is advocating functionalism and the premise the portrays Hilary Putnam’s argument that “if the type-identity theory is true, a mental state of being in pain must be identical to…

A challenge to Skepticism Through Hilary Putnam's “Brains in a Vat” argument, he aims to refute the idea of philosophical skepticism introduced by René Descartes. At the conclusion of the first meditation in his First Meditations on Philosophy, Descartes argues that an evil demon may be artificially creating all of our life experiences. Through his hypothesis, Descartes exemplifies philosophical skepticism of the existence of an external world. Ideas, life events, experiences and beliefs that…