C. S. Lewis and Myth 2018

During our first class, I found myself entering a process of asking a question, and finding answers that beg further questions. I'm sure this is a common enough occurrence, as answers are rarely straightforward or absolute in philosophy. Or perhaps they are. I am by no means an expert. Can we have knowledge? I do not know. In my class on experimental design, my professor said that to scientists, there is objective reality and apparent reality, and apparent reality is distorted by human elements: Our tendency towards myth, superstition, bias, and fallacies gets in the way. And that it is our job as scientists to minimize those tendencies in order to get as close as possible to objective reality. But in light of this class, it seems to me that such knowledge that a scientist may obtain is ultimately an approximation, a guess made with flawed data. I believe many scientists themselves will agree with that sentiment, albeit while arguing about the severity of the distortions our huma...

Welcome to the Fall 2018 C. S. Lewis and Myth class blog. Make sure to start the blog with your name and the subject of the entry in the post title area. Blog entries will be considered informal writing assignments and as such will be graded more in relation to content than style. Blog entries will contain questions and answers to questions, as well as reflections that relate to daily classroom discussions, completion of exercises, and reading assignments. Any questions you have while reading or completing assignments should be written in your blog. Reflections may relate to connections that you make between discussions in this class and those in other classes, between arguments raised in the readings in this class and those raised in other classes or from informal conversations. You are encouraged to apply the ideas learned in this class to activities that take place outside of the class. These applications make great reflections. You should bring questions from the bl...