Spring 2004

Theory of Knowledge Handouts and Lecture Notes

General Handouts

• Philosophical Terms and Methods
• How To Read a Philosophy Paper
• Participation in Section
   
• Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper
• Topics for First Papers
• Topics for Second Papers
• Policies on Late Papers
• What the Different Grades Mean

Lecture Notes

• Introduction
• Skepticism and the Dreaming Argument
  • The Matrix
    • Philosophical Issues in The Matrix
    • Internet Movie Database
    • Web FAQs: Armand's Guide/FAQ | Official Site
  • Descartes' First Meditation
  • Two Senses of "Knowledge"?
  • Knowledge, Belief, and Justification
  • Knowledge and Truth complete lectures posted 10/3
  • What's So Bad about Living in the Matrix?
  • David and Jean Blumenfeld, "Can I Know That I Am Not Dreaming?"
  • Stroud, The Significance of Philosophical Skepticism
    • Chapter 1. Stroud's Account of the Skeptic
    • Chapter 2. Stroud versus Austin
  • Relevant Alternatives Theories
• The Gettier Problem
• The Internalism/Externalism Debate
  • Goldman's "Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge"
  • Goldman's Reliabilist Account of Justification
  • Problems for Reliabilism
    • Problem Cases and Technical Difficulties
    • BonJour's Objections
• Debates about Foundations
  • The Regress Problem, Foundationalism versus Coherentism
  • Perception and Sense-Data
  • BonJour's Argument Against Basic Beliefs, and Alston's Response
  • The Given Theory

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