Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I've never disguised the fact that my own education in philosophy was in large part based in the analytical tradition, and far from turning my back on it I view the questions and methods almost as a 'secret weapon' allowing me to address questions in learning and technology that go unremarked by others. That's not to say that I am an analytic philosopher - as some of the commenters remark, the identification really doesn't make sense any more. But it gives me a detached space from which to consider words, meanings, values, intents and semantics, which I think is essential in any discipline intending to teach these.

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