Greetings to my new scholars of philosophy, and welcome to philosophy one four five three,
an introductory course taught entirely online.
It's time for us to begin pondering the meaning of the universe, and it will take some time to do it right!
I'm your instructor, Dr.
Victoria Gaydosik, and this is a picture of me in my office in the Campbell Building in Room 201A.
You can come by and visit anytime that I'm available.
Before I had all that white hair, I used to be young! And
I did things like going hiking in the vicinity of Mount Hood, or
rafting in Hell's Canyon (that was a lot of fun).
Once I caught a salmon in Puget Sound, and I served it for dinner; it was delicious. And
not long after that i got admitted to a graduate school, and I spent a lot of years studying and
earning a variety of degrees, including a degree in Philosophy.
In 1990, I started my position teaching in Oklahoma Universities (I've taught in a couple).
And while I've been teaching, I also wrote this companion to the British novel,
on the twentieth century novel (I
read a lot of novels).
In addition to teaching my full-time classes, these days I take care of my 99 year old house, along with my
ancient cat that lives there. You can see that in
1917 this house could be ordered from the Sears catalog for six hundred and thirty-nine dollars (I paid a lot more than that for it).
And next year for its hundredth anniversary I'm going to be throwing a party,
so i spiffed up my house: it used to look kind of like a shack,
but now it has a spiffy new appearance! I
used to have a dog, Fortuna.
She was an English setter, the third of the English setters that I've owned, and she was a wonderful dog.
But as she got old she got sick and lost the use of her legs
and had to be put to sleep. That was a sad day.
Now I just have my elderly cat, Gizmo, and
she's generally not very amused by my efforts to keep her entertained. I
hope that you enrolled in this class will be maybe not entertained
but certainly enlightened and
challenged and maybe inspired by the materials that we're going to learn about the subject of Philosophy.
Here's how you can contact me, and you should!
You can call me; you can email me; and you can drop by during my office hours. I
like to help students: I can solve problems pretty easily, and
so anytime that you encounter questions,
difficulties, just
let me know. I'll be happy to help.
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