Author Archives: WOLF

Research Post – The Gettier Problem problem

By WOLF | April 23, 2012

In this post, I will briefly be discussing my research paper and giving some initial thoughts about it.  The paper is called “What Should A Theory of Knowledge Do?” by Elijah Chudnoff.  The main purpose of his paper is to flush out a proper way to revive JTB, and to do this, we must understand [...]

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Philosophical Skepticism – We Know Nothing…Almost (Monday 200)

By WOLF | April 16, 2012

In Richard Feldman’s book Epistemology, he discusses skepticism and provides some arguments for and against it.  I will present the first argument Feldman provides ,which is The Possibility of Error argument (originally discussed by Descarte). The argument is as follows:

For almost any belief any person has about the external world, that belief could be mistaken.
If [...]

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Second Graded Post – WOLF

By WOLF | April 13, 2012

*This post was originally a response to lato1268’s post titled “Is God really “good” and do we have freewill?” The comment was originally intended to shed some light on the question of whether God can really by “good” or not.*
http://www.andrewcullison.com/courses/2012/02/is-god-really-good-and-do-we-have-freewill/#comments
Originally Posted February 27, 2012 at 5:44 pm
In respects to the first issue, one could argue [...]

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First Graded Post: Discussing Rationalism

By WOLF | March 23, 2012

In searching for a potential posting topic, I came across some information regarding arguments for the sources of knowledge (and how we justify them) that I thought were worth mentioning. I will be discussing rationalism, its perks and flaws, and will give some objections that favor empiricism.  The three main disputed questions between these groups [...]

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Having Issues With Google Docs and Fredmail?

By WOLF | February 1, 2012

Hey all,
I was in Epistemology today and we were discussing issues regarding the access of the reading material via GoogleDocs.  One particular issue involved students not being able to access their Fredmail off campus.  Being a victim to this horrible disaster, I decided to investigate the issue personally.  For some reason, Fredmail has difficulty with [...]

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