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University of California, Davis
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Davis, CA 95616
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This is the material covered in each class.
- September 23: Web pages and syllabus. “The Dreamer,” “Norman the Clairvoyant,” and “The Fake Barns” from Famous Thought-Experiments in Epistemology
- September 26: “The Airport,” “The ‘Heartbreaker,’” and “Ten Coins and a Job” from Famous Thought-Experiments in Epistemology. Terminology, Theory of Knowledge Today, and The Projects of Epistemology, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge.
- September 28: Descriptive vs. Normative Approaches, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge.
- September 30: Particularism vs. Methodism and Analysis vs. Use, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge.
- October 3: The Logical Project, up to the KK principle, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge.
- October 5: The Logical Project, from the KK principle, The Linguistic Project, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge.
- October 7: The Analytic Project, to Internalism and Externalism, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge
- October 10: The Analytic Project to end, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge
- October 12: The Normative Project to The Support Relation, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge
- October 14: The Support Relations, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge
- October 17: The Descriptive Project, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge
- October 19: The Validation Project, from Introduction to Theory of Knowledge
- October 21: Beginning of module to end of “Parker” example, from Language
- October 24: From end of “Parker” example through Risk in Knowledge Attribution, from Language
- October 26: Culpability in Knowledge Attribution through Relevant Alternatives, from Language
- October 28: Cohen’s Indexical-Contexutalism through Objection to Indexical-Contextualism , from Language
- October 31: DeRose’s Sensitivity Condition, from Language
- November 2: Lewis’s Contextualism, from Language
- November 4: Through Knowledge as a Mental State, from Analysis
- November 7: Knowledge and Warrant through “Discrimination,” from Analysis
- November 9: Knowledge and Warrant, “Sensitivity,” “Safety,” “Counter-Safety,” and Subjunctive Accounts of Warrant, from Analysis
- November 14: Knowledge and Warrant, “Epistemic Deontology,” from Analysis
- November 16: Knowledge and Warrant, “Evidence,” from Analysis
- November 18: Knowledge and Warrant, “Support,” to “The Gettier Problem,” from Analysis
- November 21: Knowledge and Warrant, The Gettier Problem, to “Externalist Solutions”from Analysis
- November 23: To “External World Skepticism,” from Skepticism
- November 28: No assignment. See the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry “Moral Skepticism” if interested
- November 30: External-World Skepticism, Arguments for External-World Skepticism, The “Moorean Argument” from Skepticism
- December 2: From Closure to BonJour’s Inference to the Best Explanation from Skepticism