APELC Class Notes
Objectives: APELCers 1) defined and explained metaphor, and 2) reviewed aspects of worldview.
Periods 3 and 4, we talked over metaphor, and I offered you some examples from Lakoff and we tried develop some of our own. Check out more at the Conceptual Metaphor Homepage. Then I spent some time detailing the research paper on worldview you’ll be completing this quarter, more about which you can find on your class page. (Please pay close attention to the dates of various drafts of the paper.)
Attend your homework. I’ll see you next class.
NOTE. Today Tony mentioned that he discovered God over the weekend, and he inlcuded in his explanation concepts of time. Since I haven’t posted a real linkjam this year, I thought I’d at least post some links in the class notes, this time about…time. One of the episodes of Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time this season is about the physics of time, and it’s well worth a listen. The Philosopher’s Zone isn’t archived or available for streaming after the initial podcast, but if you’re up for some reading you can read the transcript of “Time for Philosophers” from last spring. It was also a quality program. And Taylor and Chongwoo mentioned different infinities, so here’s a BBC documentary from 2006 related to time, in two parts, that I found enlightening: “A Brief History of Infinity: Space and the Universe”.