I looked at a total of two exhibits, one was about “88 Constellations” authored by Michael Banks and it primarily focused on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and his contemporaries along with his academic work. The author discussed the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell a mentor to Wittgenstein. Russell’s work primarily focused on the philosophy of mathematics, his most famous work was Principia Mathematica co authored by Alfred North Whitehead. The book was an attempt to reduce math to logic , while writing this book Russell invented the field of symbolic logic. Wittgenstein focused his research on philosophy of language, philosophy of math, philosophy of mind, Wittgenstein is credited with discovering truth tables and the tautology. His most famous book is Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He famously came up with an argument in his Philosophical Investigations, called the Private Language Argument, in which he reasoned that language is completely relative. Another on of his contemporaries was Alan Turing, a mathematician and also known as the father of computer science, his most famous philosophical work was a paper called the “Imitation Game”, in which he argued that machines have the capacity to think like a human being. The second exhibit I looked at was about video games do to society authored by Mike Heverly. This presentation was primarily objecting to the notion that video games are a bad thing for society, saying that games can make one smarter and more focused, they can also improve hand eye coordination. It it also suggested that games can be a huge stress reliever implying that games may not cause violence at all, and may actually act as a deterrence to it instead.
Lastly, after looking at these presentations, one can clearly gather interesting and valuable knowledge about important subject matter and can leave with a better understanding about the natural world.
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