1248 PHI3300 Epistemology
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Week
1 |
8/26/2024 |
8/27/2024 |
8/28/2024 |
8/29/2024 |
8/30/2024 |
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Lectures
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Welcome to Philosophy
(Notes) Brush Up on Logic (Notes) Argument Analysis (Notes)
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Bertrand Russell, from The Problems of Philosophy Plato, from Theatetus |
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Week
2 |
9/2/2024 |
9/3/2024 |
9/4/2024 |
9/5/2024 |
9/6/2024 |
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Labor
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Lectures
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Pre-Socratic Epistemology and Metaphysics: Parmenides and Heraclitus (Notes) \ |
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Video
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Plato's Metaphysics & Epistemology: 1st Half (Being & Becoming) Plato's Metaphysics & Epistemology: 2nd Half (Allegory of the Cave) |
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Canvas
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Epistemology: Setting the Table: Kinds of Knowledge The Fragments of Heraclitus: http://www.heraclitusfragments.com/ BBC Podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017x3p4#play |
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Week
3 |
9/9/2024 |
9/10/2024 |
9/11/2024 |
9/12/2024 |
9/13/2024 |
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BBC
Podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017x3p4#play |
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Week
4 |
9/16/2024 |
9/17/2024 |
9/18/2024 |
9/19/2024 |
9/20/2024 |
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Readings |
Reason
and Revelation in the Middle Ages Gilson |
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Week
5 |
9/23/2024 |
9/24/2024 |
9/25/2024 |
9/26/2024 |
9/27/2024 |
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Lectures
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Rene Descartes Epistemology/ Metaphysics (Notes) John Locke Epistemology/ Metaphysics (Notes) |
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Canvas
Readings |
"Meditation I" "Meditation II" "Meditation VI" John Locke: On Innate Ideas Concerning Human Understanding John Locke: Selections from: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: Selections from New Essays on Human Understanding John Locke: Selections from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
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Week
6 |
9/30/2024 |
10/1/2024 |
10/2/2024 |
10/3/2024 |
10/4/2024 |
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Week
7 |
10/7/2024 |
10/8/2024 |
10/9/2024 |
10/10/2024 |
10/11/2024 |
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Lectures
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Berkeley, Hume as Challenges to Locke: George Berkeley (Notes) |
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Bishop George 8erkeley: Selections from Treatise Concerning the Principles of
Human Knowledge |
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Week
8 |
10/14/2024 |
10/15/2024 |
10/16/2024 |
10/17/2024 |
10/18/2024 |
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Week
9 |
10/21/2024 |
10/22/2024 |
10/23/2024 |
10/24/2024 |
10/25/2024 |
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Lectures
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David Hume (Notes) |
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Video
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Hume's Epistemology and Metaphysics & The Problem of Induction |
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Canvas
Readings |
David Hume: Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume: Sections from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding A.J. Ayer: Selections from Language, Truth and Logic |
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Week
10 |
10/28/2024 |
10/29/2024 |
10/30/2024 |
10/31/2024 |
11/1/2024 |
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Assignments |
Exam #1 |
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Week
11 |
11/4/2024 |
11/5/2024 |
11/6/2024 |
11/7/2024 |
11/8/2024 |
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Last
Day to Drop with a DR |
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Lectures
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Kants Own Copernican Revolution (Notes) Lecture 8b Van Fraassen Scientific Realism and Constructive Empiricism Post Kantian Epistemologies - The Battle in the US After Kant: A Pragmatic Theory of Knowledge, Truth and Belief Evidentialism and Will to Believe Justification and The Gettier Problem Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge |
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Canvas
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Immanuel Kant: Selections from The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant: Selections from Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics "Solidarity
or Objectivity?"
Richard Rorty[1] Constructive Empiricism vs Scientific Realism The Ethics of Belief William Clifford Will to Believe William James A
Pragmatic Theory of Truth
William James Traditional
Account of Knowledge and Edmund Gettier The
Gettier Problem - The
Nature of Justification The
Raft and the Pyramid - Ernest Sosa Reformed
Epistemology - Is Belief in God Properly Basic? Ways of
World Making Nelson Goodman (Chapter 1) |
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Week
12 |
11/11/2024 |
11/12/2024 |
11/13/2024 |
11/14/2024 |
11/15/2024 |
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Veterans
Day (No Classes) |
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Assignments |
Paper
1a |
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Lectures
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Lecture 3a - Two Dogmas of
Empiricism Lecture 8a Realism and
Anti-realism Naturalized Epistemology |
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Week
13 |
11/18/2024 |
11/19/2024 |
11/20/2024 |
11/21/2024 |
11/22/2024 |
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Peer
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Week
14 |
11/25/2024 |
11/26/2024 |
11/27/2024 |
11/28/2024 |
11/29/2024 |
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Thanksgiving
Break (No Classes) |
Thanksgiving
Break (No Classes) |
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Assignments |
Paper1b |
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Lectures
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The Spirit of Logical
Empiricism: Carl G. Hempel's Role in Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science
Wesley Salmon |
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Week
15 |
12/2/2024 |
12/3/2024 |
12/4/2024 |
12/5/2024 |
12/6/2024 |
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Last
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Week
16 |
12/9/2024 |
12/10/2024 |
12/11/2024 |
12/12/2024 |
12/13/2024 |
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[1] Richard Rorty, "Solidarity or Objectivity?" from Philosophical Papers, Vol. I: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.