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Philosophy 4

Knowledge and Its Limits

A Parallel Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind

 

Summer 2004

 

 

Lecture Notes and Handouts

 

 

How to write a philosophy paper: Guidelines

First handout (Behaviorism and Physicalism)

Second handout (Three Kinds of Functionalism)

Third handout (The systems reply to Searle's Chinese Room argument)

Fourth handout (Mental content - Grice and Peirce)

Fifth handout (Daniel C Dennett and the Intentional Stance)

Sixth handout (Fred Dretske and the Naturalistic Theories of Mental Content)

Seventh handout (Internalism and Externalism about Mental Content)

Eighth handout (Knowledge: Terminology and Big Picture)

Ninth handout (Knowledge: Internalism and Externalism)

Tenth handout (Knowledge: How to be an Epistemic Externalist?)

Eleventh handout (The Structure of Knowledge: Foundationalism)

Twelfth handout (The Structure of Knowledge: Coherentism)

Thirteenth handout (Knowledge, Content and Justification: Hints for the paper topics)