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Reasoning Timeline Game for Critical Thinking Skills

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About This Challenge

Introducing our new game that challenges players’ reasoning skills by testing their ability to organize events in chronological order.

  • Players will be tasked with placing historical events in the correct sequence on a timeline.
  • The game will cover a wide range of topics and time periods, providing an engaging way to learn about history.
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  • 6th century BCE: Thales of Miletus is considered one of the first philosophers and is known for his use of reason to explain natural phenomena
  • 387 BCE: Plato establishes the Academy in Athens, focusing on the use of reason to understand the world and human nature
  • 335 BCE: Aristotle founds the Lyceum in Athens, emphasizing logical reasoning and empirical observation in philosophy
  • 13th century: St. Thomas Aquinas incorporates Aristotelian logic and reasoning into Christian theology in his work 'Summa Theologica'
  • 1641: Rene Descartes publishes 'Meditations on First Philosophy', introducing the concept of rationalism and the use of reason to attain knowledge
  • 1781: Immanuel Kant publishes 'Critique of Pure Reason', exploring the limits and possibilities of human reason in understanding the world
  • 1807: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel develops his dialectical method of reasoning in his work 'Phenomenology of Spirit'
  • 1863: John Stuart Mill advocates for the use of reason and logic in ethics and politics in his work 'Utilitarianism'
  • 1910-1913: Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead publish 'Principia Mathematica', applying logic and reasoning to the foundations of mathematics
  • 1921: Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus', emphasizing the importance of logical analysis in philosophy
  • 1943: Jean-Paul Sartre introduces existentialism, emphasizing individual reasoning and freedom of choice in his work 'Being and Nothingness'
  • 1951: Willard Van Orman Quine challenges the traditional view of analytic and synthetic statements in his work 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'
  • 1957: Elizabeth Anscombe publishes 'Intention', exploring the role of intention and reasoning in ethical decision-making
  • 1987: Daniel Dennett introduces the concept of 'intentional stance' as a way of understanding reason and rationality in his work 'The Intentional Stance'
  • 1993: Susan Haack develops a pragmatic theory of reasoning in her work 'Evidence and Inquiry'
  • 2000: Alvin Plantinga defends the rationality of belief in God through his work 'Warranted Christian Belief'
  • 2001: Martha Nussbaum advocates for the use of reason and emotion in moral philosophy in her work 'Upheavals of Thought'
  • 1995: David Chalmers introduces the 'hard problem of consciousness' as a challenge to traditional reasoning in philosophy of mind
  • 2009: Christine Korsgaard explores the role of reason in moral philosophy and the concept of 'practical identity' in her work 'Self-Constitution'
  • 1990: Helen Longino challenges traditional views of objectivity and reasoning in science in her work 'Science as Social Knowledge'

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