For Fight Club this week, please read the following articles. The first three are required, the final article is optional, but will give you a subtler philosophical background for arguments. You are, as ever, welcome to do further research.
As before, please prepare both sides. Since this is a dilemma, the opposing views should be easy to ascertain. Because you have drafts due on Thursday, you will have a few minutes more to prepare yourselves on Thursday. We will be doing it much in the same way we did last fight club. Since you've all now observed or participated in this style, our expectations will continue to climb. With this in mind, I'd like you to begin a basic preparation for your opening statements. Let's try to get them more smooth in successive weeks. I'd like you to adapt some of our beloved paradigms (not exact wording -- just the structure) to help you transition in your arguments.
You also must cite the articles in your arguments -- make sure to hit hard if people do not back up their arguments with evidence.
FOR THE BLOG
This week, I'd like you to write about how you have or can apply Fight Club strategies in your papers. What was easier because of it? What's still hard? What can you work out in a verbal environment which is more difficult to accomplish in writing?
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving-cars-must-be-programmed-to-kill/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111201105443.htm
http://www.philosophywalk.com/solution-trolley-problem/
http://www.jstor.org/stable/796133?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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