{"id":16809,"date":"2023-04-24T02:19:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T02:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/identify-and-explain-a-philosophical-issue-and-summarize-two-separate-works-of-science-fiction-is-time-travel-possible\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T02:19:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T02:19:50","slug":"identify-and-explain-a-philosophical-issue-and-summarize-two-separate-works-of-science-fiction-is-time-travel-possible","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/identify-and-explain-a-philosophical-issue-and-summarize-two-separate-works-of-science-fiction-is-time-travel-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify and explain a philosophical issue and summarize two separate works of science fiction (Is time travel possible?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research Project: Individual Essay or Group Presentation<\/p>\n<div>For this project, you may either write a 6-page (2000-word) Essay or give an in-class\n<\/div>\n<div>Group Presentation. For either option, you identify and explain a philosophical issue and\n<\/div>\n<div>summarize two separate works of science fiction (a short story, novel, film, or TV show)-outside\n<\/div>\n<div>of the works assigned for the class&#8211;that raise this issue (explaining precisely how they do so).\n<\/div>\n<div>You also introduce a philosopher (one who has not been assigned to the class) who has views on\n<\/div>\n<div>that issue, summarize those views (including the reasons your philosopher gives for holding\n<\/div>\n<div>them) and explain how the sci-fi works relate to those views on the issue. Presentations should\n<\/div>\n<div>be 20 minutes long and include some sort of visual aid (e.g., power-point, drawn posters, etc.).\n<\/div>\n<div>Presenters must also submit a 600-word summary outline of their presentation.\n<\/div>\n<div>Philosophical issue: Is time travel possible?\n<\/div>\n<div>Philosopher: David Lewis\n<\/div>\n<div>Sci-Fi Media: Back to the Future, Interstellar<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Project: Individual Essay or Group Presentation For this project, you may either write a 6-page (2000-word) Essay or give an in-class Group Presentation. For either option, you identify and explain a philosophical issue and summarize two separate works of science fiction (a short story, novel, film, or TV show)-outside of the works assigned for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[702],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/16809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/16809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=16809"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=16809"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=16809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}