Teaching ‘Epistemology’ to design students using Abbott & Costello

Ben Zweibelson, PhD
10 min readJul 29, 2022
Watch the comedic skit here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxVyO6cpos

I have addressed in past posts and articles that in order to perform design as a process, one might be able to get away without thinking philosophically and focus on following the methods in order to accomplish some design outcome. However, this usually fails… or when the designer does hit a barrier (mental, sociological or institutional), they are stuck at “Why-centric”

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Ben Zweibelson, PhD

Philosopher of Conflict; works at U.S. Space Command; All opinions my own!