AAPT Members

I’ve been hard at working building the American Association of Philosophy Teacher’s members-only website for the past two weeks, and hence haven’t had the chance to post. This blog will be moving there in some capacity, once I figure out precisely how - i.e. via XML-RPC or just an RSS feed. If you’re not a member of the AAPT in good standing: Become one! Really. It is a great organization, and the site we’re building will have blogs, forums, archives, news updates and social networking - all in all, it should be a really useful resource for all Philosophy teachers.

Anyway, a colleague of mine, Anne, was looking for good examples of arguments from analogy. Hillary Clinton’s new stump speech contains a line something like:

“sending the Republicans back to the White House is like asking the iceberg to save the Titanic” - see the Orlando Sentinel: Hillary on the stump for Obama

Here are the two that I use frequently:

From AAPT-Shared

It is from the Washington Post in 2004, but I appear to have lost the specific date. I’ll try to recover it. The other is the famous Apple 1984 ad:

Of course, one could get Meta-analogical, and use the fan-created Obama 1984 ad from last spring: