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- The second paper topic has been assigned.
This is the material covered in each class.
- March 29: Famous Thought-Experiments in Epistemology,
The Dreamer,
Norman the Clairvoyant,
Ten Coins and a Job
- March 31: Famous Thought-Experiments in Epistemology,
The Fake Barns
,The Airport,
The Heartbreaker
- April 5: The Methodological Project,
Descriptive vs. Normative Approaches
,Particularism vs. Methodism
- April 7: The Methodological Project,
Analysis vs. Use
, The Formal Project , toThe System K
- April 12: Conclusion of The Formal Project , The Linguistic Project
- April 14: Conclusion of The Linguistic Project, The Analytic Project through Conditions for Knowing
- April 19: Conclusion of The Analytic Project
- April 21: The Normative Project (partial)
- April 26: Conclusion of The Normative Project, The Validation Project (partial)
- April 28: Conclusion of The Validation Project
- May 3: The Linguistic Project to Variability in Knowledge Attributions
- May 5: (Almost) Conclusion of The Linguistic Project
- May 10: The Analytic Project: Knowledge and Truth, Knowledge and Belief
- May 12: Knowledge and Warrant, through Infallibilism
- May 17: Internalism vs. Externalism, through Support
- May 19: Externalist Accounts of Warrant, Gettier Problem through Williamson’s Circularity Argument
- May 24: Internalist Solutions to the Gettier Problem, Externalist Solutions to the Gettier Problem, Available Evidence
- May 26: The Validation Project, through External-World Skepticism
- May 31: Arguments for External-World Skepticism through The Moorean Argument