User:JimWae
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- At university in New York, Jim majored in sciences and philosophy. Moving to California for two years of graduate school in philosophy, he enjoyed the good fortune of conversing personally with a number of the foremost philosophers of the 20th century. Moving on to British Columbia and getting a teaching certificate there, Jim's career path came to include over 20 years of teaching at the elementary, secondary, & post-secondary levels -- mostly secondary-level science, math, and computers.
- Before computer programming languages grew enormously with the advent of the Windows GUI, Jim wrote numerous computer programs for use in his school. When not travelling for computer-training events, he is now usually found in the Pacific Time Zone, planning and maintaining computer networks and resolving diverse computer issues.
- Now a citizen of two English-speaking countries, Jim, like many of his contemporaries committed to education, is involved in the discussions regarding both the topical and the timeless that are now carried out over the many keyboards around the globe.
- Jim finds it a bit odd to be talking about himself in the third-person.
- If Jim had to name some philosophy important to his way of thinking about things, he'd need to mention the Socratic Method, Cartesian Method (somewhat), Kantian antinomies, Wittgenstenian Language Games, and Contractual Theory as updated by John Searle. Surprisingly, he finds he needs to also include people he does not really consider to be philosophers - like Newton. (Third person is really strange here - like
I have interviewed myselfhe interviewed himself.)
- If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty. --Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty paragraph 115
- The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
- both attributed to Bertrand Russell, the second is probably a paraphrase.