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Jeopardy And Philosophy
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Author : Shaun P. Young
language : en
Publisher: Open Court
Release Date : 2012-11-13
Jeopardy And Philosophy written by Shaun P. Young and has been published by Open Court this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with Philosophy categories.
Since its debut in 1964, Jeopardy! has been one of America’s favorite and longest-running daytime quiz shows. It turns the question-answer format of traditional quiz shows on its head and requires contestants to pose correct questions to answers in selected categories. While mining information and facts from Alchemy to Zoology, Jeopardy!, is a uniquely intellectual, erudite, and challenging daytime television program. Far beyond entertaining its fans with nail-biting contests of knowledge, memory, and speed, it all but requires them to participate. Few people watch Jeopardy! without pressing an invisible button and blurting out questions to their TV screen. Because of this personal and intellectual investment, most Jeopardy! fans are devout. Watching the show is valued as a daily ritual in which genuine intellectual skill and encyclopedic knowledge (as opposed to thin Hollywood depictions such as those in Big Bang Theory or Rain Man) are not only respected and placed in the spotlight, but also rewarded with national prestige and prize winnings. Champion Ken Jennings (who contributes to this volume) has won over three million dollars and remained champion seventy-four times. For those who embrace Jeopardy! as an intellectual oasis in the arid desert of popular culture, it is the geeks who shall inherit the earth. Jeopardy!’s celebration of intellect and forward-thinking is well recognized throughout popular culture and among all age groups. Ken Jennings, Chuck Forrest, and other all-time champions are near celebrities, while the show itself regularly reaches out through special tournaments to different segments of American culture, such as actors and musicians (Celebrity Jeopardy!), high-school and college students (Teen Tournament and College Championship Jeopardy!) and senior citizens (Senior Tournament Jeopardy!). Still, despite its widespread respect and, some might complain, smug self-respect, neither the show nor its fans take themselves too seriously. Jokes about host Alex Trebek’s hair and famous parodies of Jeopardy! on Saturday Night Live are as familiar as Weird Al Yankovic’s MTV-mainstay “I Lost on Jeopardy!” (to the tune of “Our Love’s in Jeopardy”): Don't know what I was thinkin' of, I guess I just wasn't too bright. Well, I sure hope I do better Next weekend on The Price Is Right.
Survival Guide In A Hostile Society
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Author : Dennis A. Kreiss
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-10-11
Survival Guide In A Hostile Society written by Dennis A. Kreiss and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with categories.
How the Tolerate Everything Philosophy is Putting Your World in Serious Jeopardy. Originally I was going to call this book "Survival Guide in a Permissive Society," but in a very short time, a chain of events unfolded which led me to believe that we had crossed the line from permissive to hostile! In case you have been on vacation on the dark side of the moon and don't know what on earth is going on, let me fill you in; our entire civilization is in crisis! The establishment, our secular society, and who knows who else are now on hostile terms with Christianity! While some scoff at Christians and suggest that we have a persecution complex, Christians are being targeted more often than is comfortable, . Let's face it; we are facing a new Holy War against Christianity. There is a radical element in our society that is doing everything it can to legislate our faith out of existence. The angry atheist wants us out of the classroom, out of the stateroom and, if we have any faith at all, they want it practiced behind closed doors. From the flop house to the Whitehouse, Christianity is facing challenges unthought-of a generation ago. This is not your grandmother's America! The "tolerate everything" philosophy is putting your world in serious jeopardy. How will you survive the coming wave of Christian oppression? How will you respond to violence aimed at your family? Are you ready for economic punishment if you do live for Jesus? What is the Christian response to the coming chaos? What are you going to do if the people you love are arrested and jailed for their faith? Perilous times are here! We now live in the "Days of Noah." As it was in the "Days of Sodom," so it shall be in the days before the Son of Man returns. Or as the book of Judges comments about the cultural chaos of their day; "Everyone did what was right in his own eyes" (Judges 21:25). You must prepare yourself, your family and your church for a worst case scenario, just in case it comes... and believe me; the nightmare on Elm Street is coming to a town near you! When that day comes, you can bet there will be an inordinate amount of concerned conversation about the need to compromise, because the need to "go along to get along" is the only way possible we can protect the church and keep the family safe. It will be supremely difficult to go against the flow, but it must be done, and you must do it! If you do not, our cause is lost, our principles will be compromised, and it will only hasten oppression of true believers. This is a book about motivating ordinary people like you to step up and do extraordinarily heroic things for Jesus. We are looking for the kinds of heroes we only read about. Sooner or later, God is going to ask ordinary people like you to stand tall and do extraordinary things. It may mean that someone may one day ask you, "Are you a Christian?" And you too may have to take a bullet for your faith.
The Jeopardy Book
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Author : Alex Trebek
language : en
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date : 1990
The Jeopardy Book written by Alex Trebek and has been published by Harper Perennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Games & Activities categories.
Provides background information on the show, anecdotes, and stories on the biggest winners.
The Catcher In The Rye And Philosophy
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Author : Keith Dromm
language : en
Publisher: Open Court
Release Date : 2012-10-09
The Catcher In The Rye And Philosophy written by Keith Dromm and has been published by Open Court this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-09 with Philosophy categories.
Few novels have had more influence on individuals and literary culture than J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Published in 1951 and intended by Salinger for adults (early drafts were published in the New Yorker and Colliers), the novel quickly became championed by youth who identified with the awkwardness and alienation of the novel’s protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Since then the book and its reclusive author have been fixtures of both popular and literary culture. Catcher is perhaps the only modern novel that is revered equally by the countless Americans whom Holden Caulfield helped through high school and puberty and literary critics (such as the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik who insisted as recently as 2010 that Catcher is a "perfect" twentieth-century novel). One premise of The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy is that the ease and sincerity with which readers identify with Holden Caulfield rests on Salinger’s attention to the nuances and qualities of experience in the modern world. Coupled with Salinger’s deft subjective, first-person style, Holden comes to seem more real than any fictional character should. This and other paradoxes raised by the novel are treated by authors who find answers in philosophy, particularly in twentieth-century phenomenology and existentialism--areas of philosophy that share Salinger’s attention to lived, as opposed to theorized, experience. Holden’s preoccupation with “phonies,” along with his constant striving to interpret and judge the motives and beliefs of those around him, also taps into contemporary interest in philosophical theories of justice and Harry Frankfurt’s recently celebrated analysis of "bullshit." Per Salinger’s request, Catcher has never been made into a movie. One measure of the devotion and fanatical interest Catcher continues to inspire, however, is speculation in blogs and magazines about whether movie rights may become available in the wake of Salinger’s death in 2010. These articles remain purely hypothetical, but the questions they inspire--Who would direct? And, especially, Who would star as Holden Caulfield?--are as vivid and real as Holden himself.
Philosophical Imagination And Cultural Memory
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Author : Patricia Cook
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1993
Philosophical Imagination And Cultural Memory written by Patricia Cook and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Does philosophy have a future? Postmodern thought, with its rejection of claims to absolute truth or moral objectivity, would seem to put the philosophical enterprise in jeopardy. In this volume some of today's most influential thinkers face the question of philosophy's future and find an answer in its past. Their efforts show how historical traditions are currently being appropriated by philosophy, how some of the most provocative questions confronted by philosophers are given their impetus and direction by cultural memory. Unlike analytic philosophy, a discipline supposedly liberated from any manifestation of cultural memory, the movement represented by these essays demonstrates how the inquiries, narratives, traditions, and events of our cultural past can mediate some of the most interesting exercises of the present-day philosophical imagination. Attesting to the power of historical tradition to enhance and redirect the prospects of philosophy these essays exemplify a new mode of doing philosophy. The product of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in 1990, it is the task of this book to show that history can be reclaimed by philosophy and resurrected in postmodernity. Contributors. George Allan, Eva T. H. Brann, Arthur C. Danto, Lynn S. Joy, George L. Kline, George R. Lucas, Jr., Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert C. Neville, John Rickard, Stanley Rosen, J. B. Scheenwind, Donald Phillip Verene
Are You Just Braaaiiinnnsss Or Something More
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Author : Wayne Yuen
language : en
Publisher: Open Court
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Are You Just Braaaiiinnnsss Or Something More written by Wayne Yuen and has been published by Open Court this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Philosophy categories.
In Are You Just Braaaiiinnnsss or Something More?, British Columbia-based philosopher Gordon Hawkes compares the zombies of The Walking Dead with the zombies philosophers argue about. Debate about whether zombies could possibly exist has been a hot topic in philosophy of mind over the last thirty years, though as Hawkes points out, these are not quite the same as the walkers in Robert Kirkman’s epic tale. Philosophical zombies, or P-zombies for short, are beings who look and behave exactly like humans but have no inner mental life—no consciousness. Philosophers have lined up on both sides of this disputed proposition, and no agreement is yet in sight. A related question is how much consciousness is possessed by the walkers of The Walking Dead, and whether these shambling walkers are entitled to any moral consideration. Hawkes’s piece is one of twenty chapters in The Walking Dead and Philosophy, edited by Wayne Yuen, in which philosophers draw fascinating and disturbing conclusions from The Walking Dead comics and TV show. The Walking Dead and Philosophy explores not only the nature of zombies, but the nature of human society as revealed by the impact of a zombie apocalypse.
The Jeopardy Challenge
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Author : Alex Trebek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-11-01
The Jeopardy Challenge written by Alex Trebek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-11-01 with categories.
Final Jeopardy
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Author : W. Whitehouse
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-07-21
Final Jeopardy written by W. Whitehouse and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-21 with categories.
The Final Jeopardy challenge requires a person to construct the best possible response in relation to the following fundamental problem. What is the truth concerning the nature of one's relationship with Being? To a considerable degree, trying to resolve the foregoing issue gives expression to an essential dimension inherent in the process of seeking to discover the purpose of life. Consequently, one might anticipate that such a theme should also be reflected in the purpose of education.The present volume of the Final Jeopardy series of books explores the nature of the relationship between education and the reality problem from a variety of perspectives. For example, beginning with a review of my own set of experiences involving the process of education and schooling (and schooling and education are not necessarily synonymous with one another), Volume 6 of the Final Jeopardy series of books seeks to critically reflect on a variety of topics that shape, orient, and influence the manner in which education is engaged and understood.Some of the topics explored during this volume are: The life and ideas of John Holt; cognitive development; human nature; the construction of social reality; reason; several landmark court cases involving the evolution v. creationism debate; Noam Chomsky; Sam Harris; propaganda, sovereignty; qualities of a teacher; epistemology; hermeneutical field theory, as well as some rather revolutionary ideas concerning education and the Constitution.
Discworld And Philosophy
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Author : Nicolas Michaud
language : en
Publisher: Open Court
Release Date : 2016-08-09
Discworld And Philosophy written by Nicolas Michaud and has been published by Open Court this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with Philosophy categories.
In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants standing on the back of a swimming turtle who knows where he’s going, the sun goes round the world every day, so it doesn’t have to be very hot, and things always happen because someone intends them to happen. Millions of fans are addicted to Pratchett’s Discworld, and the interest has only intensified since Pratchett’s recent death and the release of his final Discworld novel, The Shepherd’s Crown, in September 2015. The philosophical riches of Discworld are inexhaustible, yet the brave explorers of Discworld and Philosophy cover a lot of ground. From discussion of Moist von Lipwig’s con artistry showing the essential con of the financial system, to the examination of everyone’s favorite Discworld character, the murderous luggage, to the lawless Mac Nac Feegles and what they tell us about civil government, to the character Death as he appears in several Discworld novels, Discworld and Philosophy gives us an in-depth treatment of Pratchett’s magical universe. Other chapters look at the power of Discworld’s witches, the moral viewpoint of the golems, how William de Worde’s newspaper illuminates the issue of censorship, how fate and luck interact to shape our lives, and why the more simple and straightforward Discworld characters are so much better at seeing the truth than those with enormous intellects but little common sense.
Educational Philosophy
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Author : Edward J. Power
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-12
Educational Philosophy written by Edward J. Power and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-12 with Education categories.
The first step in education's long road to respectability lay in the ability of its proponents to demonstrate that it was worthy of collaborating with traditional disciplines in the syllabus of higher learning. The universities where the infant discipline of education was promoted benefited from scholars who engaged in teaching and research with enthusiasm and preached the gospel of scientific education. These schools-Teachers College/Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University-gained a reputation as oases of pedagogical knowledge. Soon, public and private colleges alike introduced professional academic programs for the preparation of teachers. Foremost among the subjects for these programs was education philosophy, with its long history and the impeccable credentials of its ancient and modern expositors. Although the principal focus of this study is the history of educational philosophy in colleges and universities, it also recognizes educational philosophy's antecedents. Chapters cover ancient roots, Christian educational theory, educational theory and the modern world, philosophy and education in early America, development of philosophies of education, disciplinary maturity for educational philosophy, and prospects. There is a bibliography and an index.