{"id":10,"date":"2018-08-09T14:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T14:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/58-tiger-cub\/?p=10"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:38:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:38:45","slug":"march-7-2017-tuesday-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/58-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/09\/march-7-2017-tuesday-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"March 7, 2017 (Tuesday, Week 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Agenda:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"picture-component\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\">Updates on shop progress<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Readings with Gideon Rosen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\"><em>Bottom End:<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Cleaned the transmission gears, counted them &#8211; the cycle has a standard ratio; Given a kinex model to explain to the class on Thursday<\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"s1\">Clutch:<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>Cleaned &#8211; oil parts, sprocket of clutch, ball bearings; Took inventory of clutch<\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"s1\">Electrical:<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>Tested capacitor<\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"s1\">Fasteners<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">:\u00a0<\/span>Found new seals; Cleaned the carb, began putting it back together<\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"s1\">Forks:<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>Cleaned fork, prepared it to be sent to powder coater<\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"s1\">Frame:<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>Sandblasted and polished rear struts &#8211; will begin painting; Frame needs to be welded<\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"s1\">Top End:<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>Machined dowels to align the head with the barrel (made a replacement part)<\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"s1\">Wheels:<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>Scrubbed wheels to get off rust<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Readings<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We were joined by Professor <strong>Gideon Rosen<\/strong>, a philosopher at Princeton<\/p>\n<p>Rosen&#8217;s Background:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mathematics: What is it? How can we know something is proved and with certainty if it is invisible and created?<\/li>\n<li>Ethics: How should we live? Do we live in a deterministic universe? \u00a0Ethics deals with the application of morals and responsibility versus free will.<\/li>\n<li>Rosen doesn&#8217;t have one key philosopher he looks to, for no one philosopher answers every question.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General Questions for Rosen<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why study philosophy? \u00a0It sharpens one&#8217;s thinking needed to deal with &#8220;muddy&#8221; topics. \u00a0Also, it brings the intrinsic value of reflection, and meets a genuine intellectual need in some people.<\/li>\n<li>What is metaphysics? The study of reality &#8211; objects, their structures, and the principals governing them. \u00a0It looks to define which features are <em>real <\/em>and which depend on our minds and the way we perceive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Zen<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Chapters 10-11\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientific method leads to infinite hypotheses; it is constantly evolving new knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>One view: Truth differs from what is &#8220;known&#8221; to be true. \u00a0Humans find facts, but do not make them.<\/li>\n<li>Another view: Humans are not finding facts, rather new ways to describe reality.<\/li>\n<li>Some intuition is required to make some hypotheses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Kant: &#8220;a priori&#8221; &#8211; many objective features are subjective &#8211; we impose time on objects, but we aren&#8217;t <em>detecting<\/em> the passage of time<\/li>\n<li>Whatever is out there, we cannot know anything about it beyond how it presents itself to us &#8211; we cannot peel away the layers of our minds to see what it really is (a mind independent world does not exist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Motorcycle used to teach philosophy:\n<ul>\n<li>Concept of a motorcycle helps you know what it is as you move around it.<\/li>\n<li>You know the motorcycle is not changing as you move even though your experience of it is.<\/li>\n<li>The mind constructs the underlying permanent thing that resides below the changing sensory information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Machine learning, when teaching machines how to identify an object, e.g. a chair<\/li>\n<li>Hume said with just sensation and reason there is no learning. \u00a0To know more about an object, you need to bring some prior knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>Kant tries to describe the algorithm the mind uses to go from sensation to object, and how we are able to make predictions about unseen sides of an object.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Rationality &#8211; what is it?\n<ul>\n<li>Coherent relations among beliefs &#8211; e.g. even a hallucinator can be rational<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reason &#8211; what is it?\n<ul>\n<li>Capacity of the mind for arriving at knowledge of one truth from other truths<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Is perception hypothesis?\n<ul>\n<li>In modern view, yes.<\/li>\n<li>In past, perception led to reason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Pure<\/em> reason is supposed to be free of perception.<\/li>\n<li>Kant&#8217;s thesis: No knowledge of objective reality can come without some experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reason applied to ethics:\n<ul>\n<li>Utilitarianism &#8211; moral requirement to act for the greatest good<\/li>\n<li>Utilitariansim is a preposterous assumption e.g under it, a doctor should kill a healthy patient to give organs to several sick ones because the net survival is greater<\/li>\n<li>But very simple reasoning behind this principle<\/li>\n<li>Ends justify the means &#8211; very easily abused<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Rosen&#8217;s opinion of ZAMM?\n<ul>\n<li>The story of a failed amateur philosopher<\/li>\n<li>Gives a good example of the mind drifting the philosophical direction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mindlessness is never the solution.<\/li>\n<li>Everything needs intuition and imagination &#8211; from science to the arts<\/li>\n<li>People have different levels of skepticism about the validity of generally accepted underlying views.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If one desires knowledge, classical is best.<\/li>\n<li>Romantics can have valuable experience but cannot have an understanding of object.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>So what is beauty?\n<ul>\n<li>An attention to detail<\/li>\n<li>Some things are beautiful because they are useful, not in spite of it, e.g. structural art<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agenda: Updates on shop progress Readings with Gideon Rosen Updates Bottom End:\u00a0Cleaned the transmission gears, counted them &#8211; the cycle has a standard ratio; Given a kinex model to explain to the class on Thursday Clutch:\u00a0Cleaned &#8211; oil parts, sprocket of clutch, ball bearings; Took inventory of clutch Electrical:\u00a0Tested capacitor Fasteners:\u00a0Found new seals; Cleaned the &hellip; 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