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Jazz Piano

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Technique
One of the first things a jazz pianist needs is a foundation of good pianistic technique, which is most easily gained by studying classical piano. Learning pieces by composers known for using counterpoint, especially J.S. Bach, can be especially helpful in developing an ear for contrapuntal melodies and hand independence (the ability of both hands to do different things at the same time), which are both critical to the jazz pianist. Several of the technical resources used in jazz piano are classical devices which you can find in the baroque era.

In order to successfully improvise, a correct articulation is necessary. Although this can only be achieved through practice—classical training may help—, the best advice is to "feel" the music you are playing. Technical aspects involved in rhythm, for instance, are likely to be better understood if they are felt and thought rather than just read from sheet music. In jazz, as a rule of thumb, most passages are played with eighth notes, in a more or less "swinging" feel. But to learn rhythm patterns, it is usually better to do it by listening.

A further jazz piano technique is to consider each note as a number or 'degree' of the major scale to which the chord is related. By doing this, you will no longer have difficulty playing in unfamiliary keys because you will be thinking 'numbers' rather than 'note letters'. For example, if your improvised melody goes, against a Cm7 chord (C,Eb, G, Bb): G, G, Eb, A, D, D, Bb, F... you can consider these as note values against the C root, giving:  5, 5, m3, 6, 9, 9, d7, 4. Remembering this sequence means that you can simply transpose this idea into any other key, let's say F: C, C, Ab, D, G, G, Eb, Bb.

In addition to this note value concept, each note value itself has a particular 'feeling'. A 9th sounds 'longing', a 6th sounds 'soft' and easy on the ear. Knowing the note values' feelings enables you to play Purposeful improvisations in any key.

Jazz piano technique should not deter the aspiring jazz pianist. Understandably, listening to recordings of Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans is enough to make anyone give up jazz piano, but it need not be that way. Their technique came to them in the same way it should come to you: practising and listening and emulating and creating anew. At the end of the day, with a steady accumulation in your knowledge and ability to play in all 12 keys: major scales, minor scales, blues scales, major/minor chords and these with dominant and major 7ths, is all you need to really get going in jazz. The rest will come from within.

Listening
By collecting a library of good jazz recordings and listening regularly, you'll be able to determine which pianists you might like to emulate, familiarize yourself with the myriad sounds that constitute "jazz", and develop an ear for the common forms jazz tunes tend to follow (AABA, for instance). This will also give you an idea of which tunes you would like to learn first. There are numerous great pianists that you will discover in time, but the first seven on your list should be Art Tatum, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Red Garland and McCoy Tyner. Each of these seven pianists made a significant contribution through his style, and all of these pianists' styles were highly original. There are in many cases pianists who occupied similar niches, and these are marked under "further listening."

Art Tatum is first because he was most influential during the 1930s and 1940s and (somewhat) preceded the bebop era. His recordings and transcriptions are admired by modern pianists for his advanced concept of the jazz popular of his day, as his playing possessed incredible technique and speed.

Thelonious Monk is today admired most for his style's influence on other musicians and his compositions. His compositions were critical to the founding of bebop and gave it advanced chromatic chord progressions. His ballad "Round Midnight" is one of many jazz standards he composed, and any jazz pianist should be familiar with a few dozen of the tunes he wrote. His quartet with saxophone player Charlie Rouse (1960s) was a significant development in its day. For further listening: Stanley Cowell, Geri Allen.

Bud Powell's playing showed influences from Thelonious Monk, one of bebop's founders, and Art Tatum. He took Monk's choppier style and gave it an Art Tatum influence resulting in more flow and stronger swing pulse. His Massey Hall concert with Parker and Gillespie, and later a number of trio recordings, gave him legendary status in bebop circles along with Monk. His technique was advanced and therefore few emulated his style, with a notable example being Barry Harris. Transcriptions are challenging to learn. Further listening: Barry Harris, brother Richie Powell.

Oscar Peterson developed a number of accessible licks that he could apply to any swing rhythm, from ballad to uptempo, and his piano trio (Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums) is considered to have been one of the greatest in jazz. As his playing was somewhat more accessible than that of his predecessors, listening to his extensive discography is an excellent start for learning pianists.

Bill Evans came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s and was influenced by a number of other players, yet had his own more classical playing style. As the pianist on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue he was successful both as an accompanist and leader of his own trio, which he ran until his death in 1980. His playing consisted primarily of two styles: exploration on ballad and slow 3/4, and uptempo swing, and he applied different styles to each. He focused on clarity, particularly in his earlier years, before shifting toward electric piano in his later years. Further listening: Michel Petrucciani, Onaje Gumbs.

Red Garland, also a former member of the Miles Davis Quintet (before Evans) was one of many mainstream jazz pianists who were influenced by bebop but avoided the intensity of Bud Powell's playing style. Further listening: Al Haig, Tommy Flanagan, Duke Jordan.

McCoy Tyner was a member of John Coltrane's Quartet/Quintet and in his early years (1960s) was a proponent of the avant-garde approach. His voicings were more complicated than those of his predecessors in order to match the intensity of Coltrane. He largely succeeded Tommy Flanagan and the mainstream pianists in Coltrane's increasingly avant-garde music circle. For further listening: Alice Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Mulgrew Miller, Herbie Hancock, Cedar Walton.

The verb 'to listen' is very different to the verb 'to hear'; you must execute the former. To listen to jazz is to internalise jazz; to hear jazz is to ignore jazz. When listening, pay close attention to chord types, bass lines, how the melody makes you feel and how the swing, if it's a fast enough piece, really gets to you. Without an awareness of such things, jazz will be lost on you.

Listening may also involve sitting down and copying what you hear. Whilst it is not advised (by Oscar Peterson no less) to listen just to copy note-for-note an entire recording, doing so to copy and then study and then personalise your favourite licks (melodic phrases) from a jazz recording is more than encouraged because it opens up the piano in ways you never thought possible, as well as providing you with a heavier 'bag of licks' and more opportunities for your fingers to develop dexterity. You also learn about note/chord connections which were originally unknown to you.

Listen to jazz as much as much as possible. There can be no finer advice to the aspiring jazz pianist.

Learning Tunes
Before learning a lot of complex scales or chord voicings, it is essential to learn some of the more common tunes jazz players play. Here are some examples of tunes you'll want to learn:

 * Autumn Leaves
 * All the Things You Are
 * Beautiful Love
 * Body and Soul
 * But Beautiful
 * Cherokee
 * Darn That Dream
 * Fly Me to the Moon
 * Girl from Ipanema
 * I Hear a Rhapsody
 * My Funny Valentine
 * Round Midnight
 * There Will Never Be Another You

Resist the urge to read tunes out of the book and memorize them as soon as possible. It is better to buy a recording of the tune and learn from the recording. It is critical that you feel relaxed and free to use your ears to explore possibilities in a piece of music, something you'll never accomplish while reading from a page.

Start learning each tune simply; begin by memorizing the melody and also the lyrics, if there are any. One good way to learn a melody is to play the bass note of each chord symbol while singing the melody. Later, replace singing the melody with playing it in your right hand, but sing along softly or silently in your head. To ensure you really know the melody, try transposing it into two or three other randomly chosen keys.

Next, fill in the space between the bass notes and the melody with the inner chordal material indicated by the chord symbols from the book.

In addition, it is very important to be aware of chord sequences in jazz tunes. It's fair to say that over 75-80% of them contain incredibly similar chord sequences, albeit in a different key. The most common chord progression is II-V-I. This is commonly extended by being VI-II-V-I and this itself can oftimes be extended by being III-VI-II-V-I.

The use of Roman Numerals is very commonplace in jazz so familiarise yourself with RN 1-7 immediately. 7, because that is the highest major scale degree. The RN values in the progressions above (and any other jazz progression) are numbered from the root, I (one). In the key of C, the longest progression would be: E, A, D, G, C, with C being the I and E being the III, from the major scale of the root, C.

This does become a little more complex because the first question is, "What type of chord do I play for each scale degree?" Simply remember this before going to study in detail about 'Modal Theory': I: Major 7, II: m7, III: m7, 4: Major 7, 5: dominant 7, 6: m7, 7: half-diminshed (root, minor, flat 5, dominant 7th, not 6th which is a full diminished or put another way, a full set of minor 3rds).

Once you are familiar with modal theory and have practised and mastered the II-VI-II-V-I chord progressions in every key (give yourself a month, max), you will be ready to rapidly internalise the vast majority of jazz tunes.

Blues Scale
There is no one scale which can be called the "jazz scale". Jazz music uses many scales, which belong to the various groups of modes.

Blues scale, ascending (C minor): C Eb F F# G Bb C

The scale is a representation of what notes can be used across a dominant (seventh) or minor chord of the respective key, and the scale is not to be played ascending and descending as with classical scales. While jazz pianists may or may not play scales in practice (most do), application of these scales is crucial to an improvising jazz pianist. It's called a minor C blues scale when playing a blues in C (major).

The same scale can be used as the equivalent major scale, in this case Eb. Play the Eb chord with your left hand and play (or try improvising in) the above C minor scale. The bass note is now of course the second one - Eb. You will see that this major-6 scale is a very good jazz scale and probably more useful than the C minor in most jazz tunes.

The same scale in C (major) would look like this: C D (Eb) E G A C

Adding an Ab to the C6 scale gives you another blue note between the 5-6 (G-A).

These scales in theoretical terminology are known as the pentatonic scales. Many improvisations made by some pianists give this pentatonic feeling as the key to improvisation. Something else to consider is that parts of chromatic scales are often used when improvising as well. A common chromatic approach used in Thelonious Monk's "Blue Note" is ascending four notes chromatically, such as C - C# - D - Eb, across the dominant chord. It can be done in reverse (Tadd Dameron's "Hot House") or used as part of a longer phrase. Advanced jazz pianists use a combination of the vast number of available scales and techniques, switching from one approach to another within phrases and choruses of improvisation.

Using Appoggiaturas and Other Melodic Phrases
In music, an appoggiatura is a note that is played quickly and chromatically, for example in the C major scale a pianist could play C, D, D# E, where D# becomes the appoggiatura and is played right before E. In most blues piano improvisations there is a famous melodic phrase, used before the fifth chord on a chord progression is played, called the Huey "Piano" Smith turnaround, named after the pianist who invented it in New Orleans.

Most of the music containing good improvisational phrases and piano soloing also comes from this city. This turnaround in a C Major scale would contain an appoggiatura, thus the following notes are played with right hand: C D# (E and G simultaneously) C (F and A as an interval); C, D# (E and G simultaneously once more) A (crossing index over thumb, which falls naturally into G and then G is played).

More concisely, the turnaround repeats the first interval with the appoggiatura and notes F and A are played with fingers 4 and 5 respectively. Another interesting phrase used in piano for jazz or blues which uses the black keys to form a quick blues (pentatonic) scale can be heard in the song "Big Chief" by Professor Longhair.

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This lesson discusses the basics of the Java language, including variables, primitives, operators, statements and Java writing conventionsm.

Touch on Classes
Everything in Java is written in classes. A Class in this context is a section of code that can contain data (variables), and instructions for processing that data (methods). Returning to the Hello World example from the Introduction to Java, the class is defined on the first line, and everything within the curly brackets is within that class.

The first line is always of the general form:

[Protection] class [Name] [Extend/Implements...] {    /*Class Code Here*/ }

Protection or Access Levels
Java provides two types of access levels.
 * Class access: public or package level (no modifier)
 * Member access: public, protected, package (no modifier or default), and private

A class with public modifier is visible by all other classes. Class with no modifier has package level protection. It means that only other classes within the same package can see it.

Member access levels control visibility of member data or methods from its own class, within package, subclass, or the world. See table below for the summary.

However, in order to get started without being bogged down by choosing one, just declare all of your classes as. The idea behind protection is that, if only the class itself can make changes to the data stored within itself, the other parts of the program do not need to know where the data is coming from or how it is stored. This is great for two reasons, first, it is easy to rewrite the structure of a class without changing the external application, and second, it allows the class to make assumptions about the data, and do slightly less exception handling. You should know that if your code tried to break the protection of a class, the java compiler will stop and report an error.

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This is the bit that tells the Java compiler we are writing a new class, the only slightly notable thing about it is that it must be written in small letters. It is not !

Name
This is the name by which you will reference your class when you use it in your code, it can be called almost anything you want, containing numbers, letters and underscores, though it must start and end with a letter. One thing to watch out for, is that, like everything in Java, it is case sensitive. This means that  is not the same as. You could, if you wanted have two different classes, one called  and the other called , however this might get confusing and so is strongly discouraged. In fact, in order to try and make things less confusing, there is a convention amongst Java programmers that all words in a class name start with a capital letter, and the rest are lower case letters. eg.  or

Extends/Implements
Extends/Implements not complete yet. Soon.. Every java class has a parent class, if it has not been specified then the default parent class is.

Statements
All operations are done in statements. Every statement ends in a semicolon: ;. Statements can set a variable with the '=' operator. This sets the variable you wish to set to another variable or a value. Values can only be used on primitive types. As you saw in the HelloWorld program, there was one statement:. This is one type of statement called "calling a method". More will be discussed later. Finally, you can declare a variable. If a class has no statements, it would do nothing.

Comments
Comments are short notes that the developer can insert into their code. This allows the developer to keep track of their code and helps when developers are collaborating on a project. It is good to write a summary of the following code at the beginning of your methods, classes, etc. The Java compiler completely ignores comments, so you can say anything in them.

Comments are written using two forward slashes Comments can be written at the end of a line Comments can also be written on multiple lines by starting with /* and ending with*/.

A multi-line comment that opens with two asterisks

is called a Javadoc comment. These comments are used to generate documentation for your code, and they generally appear at the beginning of a class or a method definition. A special program (also named javadoc) can be used to automatically create documentation from the Javadoc comments, usually in the form of a set of HTML files. It is generally good practice to fully document your code by using Javadoc comments, but it is not required. We will use comments to document and explain our code from now on.

Variables
Variables are used to store information in a computer's memory. Like its name implies, variables are values that can be changed. There are two main categories of variables: reference variables and primitive variables. Reference variables are place holders for objects (More on objects in Lesson 4, Java Objects and Classes.) Primitive variables are given a value of a primitive data type, a fundamental value. Variables are all given a type when they are declared, such as "int" or "float".

Declaring Variables
To declare a variable, use this syntax: [protection] [classname] [identifier] This is one type of statement. The class name is the type of variable you want. Currently, you will only use basic primitive variables, but you will learn about objects soon. Here is an example of declaring a variable: public int myInt myInt has protection of public. It is of class int, or Integer (see Primitive Types). int is a class in Java. When you say that, you are basically making a primitive object.

Primitive Data Types
Primitives are the simplest type of data. The following table shows all the types of primitives.

Using what you have learned, you may have guessed how to create these primitives:

Operators
Operators are the symbols defining a certain operation to be performed.

Assignment Operators
An assignment operator assigns a value to a certain variable after evaluating the expression to be assigned.

The assignment operator, "=", sets the variable on its left equal to the value on its right. This code creates the variable a and sets it equal to 5 Fairly simple, right? Here is where it can get a slightly more tricky.

At first glance, you might think that the last statement is setting a equal to the letter "b", but instead it is setting a equal to the value of b, which is 6. Essentially, a holds the value of 6. You can also set a variable and declare it on the same line:

However, you can't say  to set a character to 'y'. That would set the character variable  to the value stored in the character variable. To set  equal to the character y, use a character literal — a technical term for "a character in single-quotes":. Note that a  primitive can only hold a single character. is illegal.

Finally, what's so special about s and  s? Doubles and floats can have decimals:. (The term "float" is short for "floating-point number," referring to the decimal point.)

Now, why would you want to set a variable? You would need to set a variable for further use, i.e., to access at a later time.

Addition Operator '+'
The addition operator returns the sum of the values to the left, and the value to the right of it.

If you want to evaluate the expression 23 plus 75, you would type: 23+75

The addition operator also works with variables: myInt+yourInt

Note, this operator is not to be confused with the concatenation operator, which we will discuss later.

Subtraction '-', multiplication '*', division '/', and modulus '%' operators
Just like the addition operator, the subtraction, multiplication, division, and modulus operators are used as follows:

Subtraction, multiplication, and division, you have seen before, but the modulus operator is much less commonly used. Actually, it is commonly used, but is known under a different name, the remainder. Nine divided by four gives a remainder of one, so therefore 9%4 (pronounced "9 mod 4") evaluates to 1.

When more than one of the operators are used in the same statement, for example:

the Java language would use the order-of-operations in this case.

Plus-equals
The plus-equals operator adds the value on the right, to the variable on the left, and then assigns that value back into the variable on the left.

Example:

The following lines are equivalent: (a = a + 5;) is the same as (a += 5;)

Minus-equals, multiply-equals, divide-equals, and mod-equals
Minus-equals, multiply-equals, divide-equals, and mod-equals (, ,  , and  , respectively) works in the same way as plus-equals, except instead of addition, they do subtraction, multiplication, division, and modulus, respectively.

Concatenation operator
The concatenation operator (+) looks exactly like the addition operator, however it performs a different operation. The concatenation operator concatenates or "puts together," for lack of a better term, two.

String myString = "Hello, "; String yourString = "world."; String ourString = myString + yourString; // evaluates to "Hello, world."

Valid Identifiers
There are several rules for the naming of your variables. Identifiers can be named using all the letters from A through Z (capital or lowercase, you choose), numbers 0-9 and underscore _ and the dollar sign $. The first character of the identifier cannot be a number, but it can be a letter, _ or $. Identifiers can be no longer than 32 characters.

You can't create two variables with the same identifier; all identifiers must be unique. You also can't use an identifier that is a Java keyword, listed below. Flashcards for Java keywords provides some assistance in memorizing the concepts behind specific keywords.

Identifiers should also be meaningful, while maintaining practicality. If calculating the sum of a set of numbers,  is better than , but   might be too short.

System.out
It is often useful (and necessary) to view the output of your program, especially when you are just getting started or when you are debugging. Java provides a way to do this. System.out is a static member (don't worry about what this means for right now) which contains various methods which allow programmers to output text to the console. Two commonly used methods are System.out.print and System.out.println. The first allows you to print text without a line break, and the second inserts a new line after every call.

Using System.out.println is extremely simple, though C/C++ programmers may find it cumbersome to type up compared to simply typing printf. The method println takes one parameter, the variable you wish to output, and writes it to the console. 3h55523f6h66f5698hf+++h 555555 hh0..0h33g ..23h3266h/syntaxhighlight>. 2 2232 The6 56plus sign would be mistaken for the addition operator for adding numeric values. So to print out "5432", you would have to type:

165023System.out.println( 54 + "" + 32 );

Now you can do calculations and print the result! For example, say you want to evaluate 6*6*6*6 and then print the result ("1296"). Here is the code:

Compiling and running your program
To compile your program, go to the directory you saved it in. Note that if your class was named NaMe then your file must be named NaMe.java. Notice that Java is case-sensitive. Anyways, type:  where NaMe is your class name in a command-line window. To run the program, type. Do not forget to include the ".java" extension when compiling the file, and to leave out any extensions when running the program.

If the compiler reports syntax errors with your code, you must look in your source code and fix them. These are usually typos, but can be missing semi-colons or other formatting issues.

If, when running, it reports "invalid class file", the compiler might not have created a file. It should have given an error message at compile time.

User Input
The first way to get user input is from the keyboard without using the swing gui. You must first import the Scanner package first like so. Once you have done that you will have to create a Scanner object. Finally after the user has entered the input asked for you retrieve using your Scanner object. For example if we wanted a string as input we could use the following code.

''In order for the following to work properly, you must place the following code on the first line of your .java file. Importing packages will be explained later.''

Now, let's go on to asking the user to enter a number and doing calculations on it. Basically:. Try putting that in a class (in the main method, of course) and run it. Currently, we can't do anything with it because the value is deleted.

Because what you enter can consist of letters OR numbers, and any length of them, what is "produced" by that is a String. The following will work:. Now lets say that after you get the string you want to print it. Just like regularly, add the following line:.

Now you probably want to be able to enter a number. Java provides a method of changing a String to an. It is. So lets say you want the user to enter a number and you print it. Do:

And now, of course, you can do whatever you want with that...

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Initial questions in philosophy/Selected answers

I have a basic understanding of philosophy, and have a great interest. What would be some good areas to go to? I would like to start off with the Greecian philosophers, to get a base and work from there. But, I am not interested in limiting myself by style or subject.

Any suggestions would be great.
 * A fundamental tool that we all bring to philosophy is our mind. Should we take that tool for granted or should we carefully examine its abilty to both serve our investigations and mislead us? --JWSchmidt 14:54, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I'll go out on a limb and say that equally foundational is our capacity as social beings. I'm suspicious of the monological mind and temptations to reduce the world to it. To answer your questions, yes, we should carefully examine, but not just the mind. --executivezen 22:11, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

On the Mind

The mind has the power to easily mislead us, and take us in a path of ignorance, but at the same time enlighten us with knowledge. Does a certain amount of knowledge bring on ignorance? Or does it bring on apathy. What is the difference? (Plato's Allegory of the Cave?)

Other Initial questions

What is real?
What exists when no one is watching? anything? Everything we KNOW by direct experience seems to be the product of our own mentations, that is, we appear to be receiving data from a source outside ourself and then converting that data into an experienced universe. Does this experienced universe match the hypothesized "real" one that it seems to be modelling or are we all just, am I just, dreaming? Popular movies such as the Matrix and THE 13th FLOOR explore this inability to tell which is real and which is virtual in a dramatic style, but the question seems as old as history itself. The buddhist concept of maya or the illusory world comes to "mind". Plato's shadow world is another ancient version of this same conundrom. It seems to me that whatever is REAL has, at least in part, the ability to dream and think about its dreams. The dream of reality may be accurate to reality or may be completely alien, but without the ability to verify which is which, we seem forever destined to be tormented by this question. So far I am only sure that experiences are facts, items of perception, but beliefs about them are never more than speculations and guesses. Jiohdi 21:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

"Outside our heads there is freestanding reality. Only madmen and a scattering of constructivist philosophers doubts its existence." - Edward O. Wilson

The question of what is REAL seems to boil down to what MATTERS, what is important, what counts, etc. In that respect, the Meaning one finds in the world of experiences seems to be predictated on the expectation and living experiences in relation to peace of mind. Some experiences cause pain, some pleasure and some peace of mind and the beliefs about them seem to amplify or dampen those feelings. Learning which options lead to which experiences seems to be the only reality that matters in the final analysis. Jiohdi 16:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Paradoxes What we find in experience that matches our expectations will bring us joy and peace, however need not be true nor accurate to reality. When our beliefs match with our experiences we find no cognative dissonance and so feel at peace, yet science has time and again shown that accuracy to reality is not required for this mental state to be sustainable. An example would be classical physics which seemed to match measurable reality for several hundred years until better measuring devices evolved and started to show significant flaws between belief, or theory, and measurement or expectations. Relativity theory matches the measured reality far better than classical physics yet still has gaps that do not match Quantum physics for example, indicating some part of the theory is flawed or incomplete as well. All this points to the very likely possibility of finding peace of mind without finding reality or truth in the process which may be why so many religions persist even though they contradict each other and cannot all be right when it comes to accuracy to reality. Jiohdi 17:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Reality is what you can get away with Robert Anton Wilson

What is Justice?
See John RawlsJohn_Rawls and his Principles of Justice. AndrewJesseBrown 21:26, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

What makes something beautiful?
A study performed in the 1980s by Omni Magazine for its parent company PENTHOUSE, which is very interested for financial reasons in the answer to this question, found that we, [males were studied], all have an inner ideal which does not vary much across cultural or racial boundries and it is the reflexive, unconscious comparison of what we experience to this ideal that causes us to find someone or thing beautiful or ugly. The ideal seems to be based primarily on Symmetry and proportions which do not vary significantly from those drawn by Da Vinci in one of his famous sketch books, which showed a man within a circle, defining the bodies prportions and symmetries. Jiohdi 17:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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"Way is obscured when men understand only one of a pair of opposites, or concentrate only a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddied by mere wordplay, affirming this one apsect and denying the rest." - Zhuangzi

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." - Wittgenstein

Human minds and cultures have evolved so as to provide us with particular intuitions about the nature of reality, justice and beauty. Western philosophy took an interesting diversion into exploration of the idea that people might be able to deduce the essential natures of reality, justice and beauty just by carefully thinking about these topics. However, human minds and cultures arise from the biological substrate of our species. Attention has now turned to study of the biology and sociology and philosophical views of the nature of reality, justice and beauty can now be informed by scientific results. Daniel Dennett is a philosopher who has examined traditional philosophical issues from the perspective of what we now know about human biology and how cultures develop and ideas compete for existence in the memosphere.

Edward Wilson has proposed that all branches of human knowledge can be unified using an approach called consilience (see also: Consilience). Such a view invites interdisciplinary cooperation. Other philosophers seem sure that philosophy has nothing to do with scientific observations. --JWSchmidt 16:57, 2 October 2006 (UTC)


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Hello
I used the stumble toolbar and randomly came across this interesting site and after a few tutorial pages I decided to share my passion for philosophical inquiry with some other enthusiastic philosophers. Currently I am interested in A. N. Whiteheadand his Philosophy_of_organism. By eliminating substances as real, Whitehead creates a reality that's made of interchanging and somewhat eternal processes.Here is a video that gives a good and brief introduction to his ideas I am also into cognitive philosophy and the idea that language acts as a social institution, which then constructs spacial and temporal identities, that is we are always forming cognitive maps of reality biased on sense-datum gathered and filtered by our bodily-apparatus behaving independently of our current conscious cognitive state. I end with this, which I have been asking myself for a while now:

How do you get to where you know you need to be?--Joerhoka 03:04, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

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Hi all. I stumbled across this page not too long ago futilism.synthasite.com and found it to be interresting. Although I've never heard of futilism, it sounds alot like nihilism? Has anyone else heard of this and why can't I find anything else about it? Not real good with computers so I hope this is the right way to post this. If not sorry. roberts.bob1958@yahoo.com

Hi again i'm just posting everywhere i'm not suppose to, I am quite sure now this is where new people are suppose to post or ask questions but my question on the discussion page stands so I won't repeat it, i'd love to learn from this school though just tell me what to do. I am very interested in Existensialism.

Mat-- My philosophy is unique to me. My philosophy is about old principles and ideas in modern life. My observations have concluded that modern life if wasted and everyone leads a cloned life - everyone is the same. This is especially the case in Universities and Colleges; everyone is artsy, but have no substance to their being and replicate the person next to them because they cannot come up with their own identity. I've promised myself i'd write a book on it, but i am afraid that by the time i die it would still not be finished.

im a studio art dropout. i took a philosophy class in high school but mostly we talked about football. the first philosophical conclusion i ever came to was in that class when i turned in the homework thought 'i know enough to know that i know nothing at all.' well, since then ive made a point of avoiding all forms of published philosophy because i didnt want to end up hating it like every other class and also i wanted to arrive at all my own conclusions. i have little formal education in philosophy but everything i know is from experience. the last few years have been a metaphysical freeclimb and ive fallen into a lot of dilemmas and absurdities, some almost fatal. i relate to those speculative metaphysicians that were criticized by kant for being unable to support any of their claims, however so far my intuition has been all i felt comfortable to depend on since im no logician, i have no science, and i dont trust common sense. its gotten me to this point, from which i have a clear view of the rest of my expedition but i need more tools to continue. im interested in learning logic, epistemology and aesthetics so as to organize my thoughts and prove my points. since ive been back home ive taken on a full time study of philosophy which im taking very slowly in order to branch out into all categories and also to avoid adding anything to my repitoire that i havent tested for integrity. so far ive been working on aristotles metaphysics, some existentialist writings, ortega y gasset, descartes, kant's prolegomena to any future metaphysics and the critique of pure reason. i think alot of artists and musicians have a lot of valuable knowledge as well. after a few years of independent study i plan to devise a way to get back my scholarships and go back to college as a philosophy major. anyways, im kindof socially impaired so i dont have many friends and i need people to talk to so i can learn how to debate. is there some kind of forum? oh, uhhh... heres me link emc

Hi... I would just like to say that you guys are doing a good job. Include more philosophy of Thoreau, Rand, Nietzsche, and some other abstract ones I have forgotten of.

Hi there, I've just joined the Philosophy school with the intention of debating questions and (hoping) to start a dialetic between over members. My main philosophical interest is consciousness and the humand mind. Rather than debating the origin of consciousness, I prefer to explore the implications and effects that arise from the condition. In relation to this core interest, I study human instinct, psychology, neurology, and have touched upon theology. I am familiar with political philosophy (particularry Plato's republic, and most of the works of Orwell). I am currently reading works by Winston, Darwin and Swarbrooke. Please feel free to contact me if any of you are interested in raising and discussion. Thanks, Budiah.

Whey hey! I seem to be the first into this board. I'm and my philosophic interest is in poststructuralism; in particular, the work of Jacques Derrida. I'm (slowly) going through primary and secondary texts and applying his thought to executive education - which is my field. I'm keen to know if anyone here is interested in a linkage between, so called, continental philosophy and education, as this is where my passion lies. Other interests include philosophy of higher education; particularly the debate about liberal education versus vocationalisation, work-based learning and networked learning - all of which, I'd like to think, inform and are informed by the topic of wikiversity scholarship. Philosophically, I'm interested in Richard Rorty's pragmatism, Derridian deconstruction and communitarian political philosophy, believing these (foolishly) to come together somehow.

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Hi there, this is my first edit on any wiki-site, But I'm quite looking forward to taking a class or two here, My main philisophical intrests are in Discordianism, Critics of Niezche, and Ayn Rand. If any of you are game for some philisophical discussion let me know, how ever it is wikipedians communicate with one another. Peace, NortonThe1st.

Greetings. I'm new here and I'm not really sure how this whole Wikiversity thing works, but I'm really interested in learning more about philosophy here. I'm a beginner in this topic, I'm studying the very beginning of western philosophy, Diogenes Laertius Lives', for instance, and some other texts about early greek philosophers, like Thales and the Pre-Socratics. I want to know how I can help this project and how I can benefit from it. Keops.

 * Hey guys. I sort of stumbled upon Wikiversity today, and I'm really excited about this.  I mean, its not much yet, but if we can get organized (even that, though, is a task that I wouldn't know how to begin), this could be amazing.  I'm a third year philosophy student at the University of Colorado, and since the day I arrived here, I've had a big issue with the way philosophy is taught in a university setting, especially lower level classes.  I think that an emphasis on grades and exams robs the program of integrity, to an extent; I just cringe every time I hear someone ask, "Will this be on the exam?"  Anyway, I would love to contribute, but I would have absolutely no idea where to begin.  If someone has an idea for a little bit more organization, or if I see an opportunity to help out, I'll definitely jump in.  All the best.  Liftyrfists 15:28, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm in the same boat as liftyrfists. I just discovered this wikiversity project and I want to contribute to this department. I just hope it's not dead. I am interested in Continental Philosophy from Hegel to Nietzsche (particularly Marx and the Marxists). exectuivezen: I also am interested in Philosophy of Education. I have done a little work on Marxist class consciousness and its educational implications and Paolo Freire's educational theories and Praxis, etc. etc. If you are still active here, contact me. CmdrRamon 15:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, i'm new here and i'm not really sure about how it all works, but i've done a broad range of study in Philosophy and religious studies and i'm willing to contribute, do i just contribute or do i need to submit to a board?? Markc 23:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Solution to the sloppy Philosophy Home Page!
I just stumbled across this project (very cool by the way, I plan on contributing) and have some suggestions to offer regarding the messy front page. I have difficulty figuring out where all the content (or, more frequetly, soon to be created content) is located and if I was visiting this page in search of something specific, I would be lost. A better way to organize the front page would be to change the stuff under Divisions and Departments to the following catagories:

 * Introduction
 * This should include an introduction to, not only philosophy in general, but also to some general terms that people will come across, to some general ideas that are often discussed in the field, and to the various branches of Philosophy.
 * The Initial Questions catagory belongs here, if it belongs at all.

 * History of Philosophy
 * This category could include courses such as Western Philosophy (most likely broken up into multiple corses), Eastern Philosophy, I even saw an African Philosophy thing on here.

 * Branches of Philosophy
 * If I come here wondering what the branches of philosophy are, this would be an obvious place to look. If I came here wondering what analytic philosophy was, this would be an obvious place to look.
 * I believe that if this were its own catagory, it would keep the front page more organized and would place the catagories such as Analytic Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, etc. in much more intuitive place.

 * Movements
 * This needs to be its own page simply because, if I come to the philosphy department wanting to learn about the nihilist movement, I don't know where to go. If this were its own page it would be easy to figure out.

 * Specific Philosophers
 * If I come to the department wondering what Hegel believed, I wouldn't know where to go.
 * Actually, I think I saw Hegel under History of Western Philosophy (which should itself be a sub-section of a greater History of Philosophy tab). If people aren't looking for history, they wont' want to see History of Western Philosophy (it's too specific), but if they are, it should be under a more intuitve History section.
 * Plus, it would just be nice to have a list of philosophers handy to look up and reference quickly.

I see this as a solution to the sloppy front page. However, I have no idea how to edit the page in a way to make this model a reality, hence its currently messy outline. So please help me fix the front page. One more thing. Please don't put the different courses in this category in little bullet points like this one underneath the main catagory. Make people click on the link to the Ethics page where they can see the courses/ subdisciplines of it. The bullet points just make the main page sloppy and difficult to read. Djdoobwah24 01:10, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok, who centered half of the text on our page? It looks terribel and isn't consistent with other wikipedia/wikiveristy page layouts. I would also like to call attention to the following diagram that outlines how the pages are supposed to be organized (our page doesn't follow this model):

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Image:Schooldivdeptstructure.png

Djdoobwah24 22:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Why are we here?
Hi all, and it's great to see so many interesting and enthusiastic messages above! Such a broad range of interests (which I suppose is no surprise, seeing as this is the Philosophy message board) - so the question is: where do we go from here? I suppose School:Philosophy needs to be strengthened - just take a look at the divisions listed there, and if there's anything that takes your fancy, please step in and edit that/those page(s). If you have something that you think might provoke some thoughts in other readers, please add them. Or, if you have a question that you'd like to discuss, please put them in. We're still trying to figure out how learning works on Wikiversity (see Learning to learn a wiki way or Portal:Education/Wikiversity model). But there have been some fascinating discussions - see, eg. Talk:Developing Wikiversity through action research, which has led into Wikiversity as narrative. Myself, I'm interested in the philosophy of education - Freire, who CmdrRamon mentions, is a hero of mine - but there are many others, and many more that I keep meaning to read, but that i never get around to reading. (That infernal, ever-lengthening reading list..!) So, basically, there's nothing stopping anyone just getting stuck in, and adding whatever you find to be of interest to any page on the project. If people tell you that what you've added is not relevant to that page, so be it - this is a wiki - but you can always set up your own pages, or collaborate on other pages with other people who are more of a like mind (though editing with people of a very different mindset can be most worthwhile too..) If anyone has any questions, I'll be happy to answer them if you add them to my talk page. I'm very much looking forward to working on the philosophy section of Wikiversity myself, too - cheers! Cormaggio beep 00:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

African Philosophy
Hi everybody. A new Division has been started on African Philosophy (yes, something like that really exists :-). The first project will be to compile an annotated bibliography. If you ar interested, you are welcome to come, look and contribute. A lot of help is needed to explore this fascinating topic and close the white spots on the map of philosophy. Nannus 20:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Continental Philosophy
Have a look at the expanded Division of Continental Philosophy and feel free to help build this endeavor. Or if you're looking for a gentle way into this subject why not play the Nietzsche Name Game.

Metaphysical Philosophy
Beloved I AM. Looking for a place to discuss the Creator of Creation and all things I AM. Metaphysical Philosophy

Old and new voices
It seems odd to me that the focus of this 'wiki' project' is devoted almost entirely to the works of men that lived thousands of years ago. Did these men have something to say during their age? Yes. Do they still have wisdom to pass onto our age?... I would also say yes; but at the same time I believe that we must too, in this 'project' include new voices, the philosophers of "our age" if you will.

If not the modern man risks losing his thirst for knowledge to the convienience of technology, the power of thought lost to the power of the machine. (Of course by the last paragraph I mean in general - the fall of man will, of course, not be caused only by this particular web page, or will it? :P)

 * I couldn't agree more - er, about including new voices, not about contributing to the fall of man. ;-) The thing to always bear in mind is that Wikiversity is still very much in development - and so therefore needs to be developed. If you want to add some pertinent voices of "our age", please do so. :-) Cormaggio talk 13:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

A great new philosophy on the meaning of life can be found at http://www.lulu.com/content/4350192 It was written by Mark Morris and it is a philosophy wrapped in a scientific theory, and a great read!

Stoic Philosophy
No department. No comments. No mention whatsoever!

See Book By R. P. Mckeon. Epicureanism and Stoicism: The way to live.

Anyone interested in starting up that intro to logic course? I'd like to start writing something in there but I've yet to figure this whole wikiuniversity thing out. I'll keep you all posted. 7/12/14

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Vitalism

Welcome to the Vitalism learning project.

Content summary
Vitalism is the idea that living organisms cannot be entirely explained in terms of the same forces and materials that account for the behavior of non-living objects. According to vitalism, there must be some additional "vital force" present in living organisms that distinguishes the living state from the non-living.

Vitalism is a natural philosophical position for humans who have no knowledge of the details of physical matter. Recognition of the molecular basis of life allows for a materialistic philosophical position which adopts the hypothesis that the same physical laws govern both living and non-living objects.

Goals
This learning project offers learning activities that review the history of vitalism as a theory of the living state.

Concepts to learn include how conceptual understanding of living organisms has changed through time and how modern science's approach to the study of life differs from pre-scientific ideas about life.

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Learning materials and learning projects are located in the main Wikiversity namespace. Simply make a link to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages in the main namespace) and start writing!

You should also read about the Learning model. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. Learning materials and learning projects can be used by multiple projects. Cooperate with other departments that use the same learning resource.

 * Chemistry and consciousness - a Biochemistry survey course; can all aspects of life be accounted for in terms of chemical processes?
 * On the Soul: discussion group - Was Aristotle a Vitalist?

Reading

 * History of organic chemistry at Wikibooks
 * 1896 Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson, one of the last great advocates of Vitalism.
 * The soul and the brain between anatomy and Naturphilosophie in the early nineteenth century by M. Hagner. (1992)
 * 1996 Daniel Dennett's book "Kinds of Minds", Chapter 2. Dennett wrote, "Dualism...and Vitalism (the view that living things contain some some special physical but equally mysterious stuff-élan vital) have been relegated to the trash heap of history...."
 * 1998 Bechtel, W. and Richardson, R. (1998). Vitalism. In E. Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge.
 * 2005 On the Vitality of Vitalism by Monica Greco - comments on the continuing vitality of vitalism. (Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 22, No. 1, 15-27)
 * Qi - Wikipedia article about a non-Western conceptualization of "life force".

Activities

 * Read about vitalism (see the section above)
 * Discuss vitalism (see next section)

Discussion

 * A Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake - interview by John David Ebert. How does the work of Rupert Sheldrake relate to Vitalism?

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