Syllabus
Monday 200 Deadlines
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Readings
- What is an Argument?
- Some Vocabulary Describing Arguments
- Analyzing Concepts
- Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? (be Ed Gettier)
- Modifying the Traditional Analysis of Knowledge (by Richard Feldman)*
(*you might have to download this and read it on your desktop so you can rotate it) - [Title Omitted for Blind Review] (by Neil Feit and Andrew Cullison)
- What Good Are Counterexamples? (by Brian Weatherson)
- Knowledge and Analysis (by Timothy Williamson, from Knowledge and Its Limits)
- Unanalyzable Knowledge (by Timothy Williamson, from Knowledge and Its Limits)
- Foundationalism (by Daniel Howard-Snyder)
- Coherentism (by Jonathan Kvanvig)
- Infinitism (by Peter Klein)
- Internalism and Externalism (by Ted Poston)
- Internalism Defended (by Richard Feldman and Earl Conee)
- Evidentialism (by Richard Feldman and Earl Conee)
- A Well-founded Solution to the Generality Problem (by Juan Comesana)
- The Diagonal and the Demon (by Juan Comesana)
- Objections to Proper Functionalism from “Justification Without Awareness” (by Michael Bergmann)
- Skepticism (by Richard Feldman)
- Skepticism and Justification (by Richard Fumerton)
- Cartesian Skepticism and Inference to the Best Explanation (by Jonathan Vogel)
- Contextualism and Interest Relative Invariantism (by EJ Coffman)
- The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement (by Thomas Kelly)
Course Specific Handouts**
- Argument Handout
- Invalid Arguments
- Conceptual Analysis, Thought Experiments, and Counterexamples
- Knowledge, Truth, and Belief
- The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge: Part One (Presentation Slides)
- The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge
- More on Falsehood and Knowledge
- Weatherson on Gettier
- Williamson on Unanalyzable Knowledge
- The Infinite Regress
- Foundationalism
- Cartesian Foundationalism
- Modest Foundationalism
- Coherentism
- Infinitism
- Internalism vs. Externalism
- Externalist Theories of Knowledge
- Internalism vs. Externalism
- Evidentialism
- Reliabilism
- Recent Defenses of Reliabilism
- Bergmann on Proper Functionalism
- Four Skeptical Arguments
- Skepticism About Justification
- Classical Invariantism, Interest-Relative-Invariantism, and Contextualism
- Contextualism
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**Note: These Handouts are supplements/outlines of class lecture and discussion – they will not always contain everything that comes up in class that you will be expected to know.
Study Guides
First Paper
- FIRST WRITING ASSIGNMENT
- Submit paper using Google Docs – See Here for Instructions
- Some Useful Handouts
Final Research Paper
- Final Paper and Research Posts
- BONUS: Using PEE as a Building Block to Write Longer Papers (this should help you see how the short paper assignment can help you with the long paper assignment)