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- Definition of Knowledge and the Gettier Problem28
- Types of Knowledge22
- Sources of Knowledge17
- Rationalism and Empiricism92
- Descartes and the Method of Doubt18
- Epistemic Justification8
- Skepticism11
- Theories of Perception: Direct and Indirect Realism38
- Idealism and Anti-Realism9
- Theories of Truth8
- Philosophy of Science and the Problem of Induction15
- Value of Knowledge5
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Representative Realism Representative Realism:Seems to be a distinction between appearance and reality.We perceive sense-data directly but the real world indirectly.Two worlds exist: the material world as it is in itself and the world as it...
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Innate Knowledge Innate Ideas:Rational thinkers believe that not all of our knowledge comes from experiences and that some of our concepts or knowledge is in-born, discoverable without reference to experience. Innate ideas are to be f...
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Gettier and solutions Gettier Cases Case 1: Smith and Jones both apply for a job. Smith has been assured Jones will get the job and has counted 10 coins in his pocket. (d)- Jones is the man who will get the job and Jones has ten coins in h...
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Epistemology Epistemology is the study of knowledge. There are several epistemologies, according to which branch of philosophy someone is studying: • Virtue epistemology • Social epistemology • Moral epistemology...
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Idealism Berkeley argued that every quality is secondary: What we perceive of the world is a combination of sensible qualities such as colour, taste, smell, shape and size, etc. Experience fundamentally involves pain and pleas...
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Hume Introduction to David Hume Historical Context David Hume was born in Edinburgh, he attended Edinburgh University at the age of 11 and had completed his first great philosophical work by the time he was 25. His family ...
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Knowledge and the Motive for Truth Summary 1. The motive for truth in our epistemic lives Zagzebski says that she assumes that a self-conscious being is both conscious of the world and conscious of itself being conscious of the world. And that because we are s...
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Reason and Experience Plans Explain and illustrate what is meant by the claim that experience is intelligible only because we possess a predetermined conceptual scheme. Kant said that ‘the world is mind shaped’, without a co...
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Descartes Meditation 1 Summary of content - what can be called into doubt Descartes' strategy demolishing all his beliefs and starting again from the foundation seeking to find absolutely certain knowledge therefore,...
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Introduction to Knowledge and Doubt Introduction to Knowledge and Doubt Epistemology is about how we get knowledge and how we can be sure that knowledge is reliable. Epistemology tries to separate true knowledge from opinion and beliefs. What is knowled...
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Reason as a source of knowledge REASON AS A SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE. innatism :) - innatism is the belief that the ideas which exist in the mind are not acquired from experience. Most philosophers would say that the majority of innate...
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Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? by Edmund L. Gettier From Analysis 23 ( 1963): 121-123. Transcribed into hypertext by Andrew Chrucky, Sept. 13, 1997. Various attempts have been made in recent years to state necessary and sufficient conditions for someone...
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Mind as a Tabula Rasa The Mind as a Tabula Rasa - The mind as a blank sheet (Strengths)-Trace causal origins of ideas-World constructed from building blocks provided by the sense i.e sight, sound, smell, touch, taste-Ideas constructed from...
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Are there innate concepts? 25 mark plan. Introduction: I believe that there is no way to know if there are innate concepts. While their existence is probable, it is impossible to determine, for certain, whether they do or do not exist. I will be looking...
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Indirect Realism Indirect Realism The immediate objects of perception are mind-dependent objects that are caused by and represent mind-independent objects John Locke, Rene Descartes, David Hume, Bertrand Russell Descartes Indirect Rea...
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Indirect Realism Indirect Realism The immediate objects of perception are mind-dependent objects that are caused by and represent mind-independent objects John Locke, Rene Descartes, David Hume, Bertrand Russell Descartes Indirect Rea...
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Karl Popper Karl Popper:Key ideas:Falsification: The process by when a theory is proposed all measures must be taken to attempt to disprove it. If it cannot be disproven then it is accepted as tentatively true until it is di...
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Epistemology - created from Mind Map What is knowledge Propositional Know how
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Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Zagzebski (born 1946) is an American philosopher who works in the field of epistemology. In her book, Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief (2012), she defends a strong sense of epi...
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Ayer's Verificationism - created from Mind Map Verifyability in principle "There is life on Mars"Verifiable in PRINCIPLE, but we don't have the technology to find out in PRACTICE. Practical verificationCan be tested in reality Strong verificationObservation and ex...
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Tabula Rasa - created from Mind Map Locke without the corresponding sense experiences, words are meaningless, so any idea without a direct link to any sense experience should be regarded with suspicion an not taken seriously coined Tabula Rasa Hume HUME...
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Verificationism Verifyability in principle "There is life on Mars"Verifiable in PRINCIPLE, but we don't have the technology to find out in PRACTICE. Practical verificationCan be tested in reality Strong verificationObservation and ex...
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Unit 01 - Reason and experience notes Introduction to 'tabula rasa' 'Tabula rasa' means 'blank slate' in Latin, when taken literally. It is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content or knowledge about the world., and that...
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David Hume David Hume:Key ideas: Relations of ideas - Analytical necessary truths, which cannot be disputedMatters of Fact - Synthetic contingent truths. From what we observe, we can’t be sure what we observe is true. ...
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Knowledge Key concepts of belief and knowledgeDefinition of an assertion and proposition Assertion: a linguistic act, spoken or written, that has truth value Truth value: state of being true, false or indeterminate. All declara...
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Locke, Berkeley and Empiricism - created from Mind Map René Descartes Empiricism John Locke
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Innate ideas 'Are we born tabula rasa' Intro Q can be rephrased to ask whether we have innate ideas Rationalists like Descartes have tried to prove existence of innate ideas No conclusive answer but most convincing view is w...
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Rationalism and Empiricism- an overview Descartes: Cogito ergo sum, I think, therefore I am Proponent of rationalism, belief that reason is the most reliable source of knowledge Believed in deduction and logic Mostly immaterial world deductions: He exists a...
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"Philosophy-Theory Of Knowledge" - creado desde un Mapa Mental Types of knowledge Procedural Personal
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Tabula Rasa IntroductionThe term 'Tabula Rasa' was coined by John Locke in his attempt to describe the state of humans at birth or a priori (prior to experience). He was trying to express the idea that when we are born, we know n...
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knowledge of the external world knowledge of the external worldbrief overview of each:DIRECT REALISM: also known as a common-sense realism because the world is as it is perceivedthere’s a world with objects that exist independently of human percepti...
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Bertrand Russell Bertrand Russell (1872 –1970) Russell was an English philosopher, writer, historian, mathematician, social critic and logician. He was especially interested in the philosophy of epistemology, ethics and language. The ...
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KC Class 4 Palmer's fundamental aspects of cognitive representation (models):The job of the representing world is to reflect some aspects of the represented world in some fashion. Not all aspects of the world need to be modeled;...
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Epistemology Links Rubber hand illusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxwn1w7MJvk&t=11s Gettier, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” Analysis, 23(6): 121-123 http://www.ditext.com/gettier/gettier.html Think of the six sens...
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Class 3 (Feb 5th, 2015) Henry Plotkin - naturalizing - accounting for a phenomenon as natural - biological, evolved phenomenon. they want to understand agency in the context of evolutionary theory.Darwin Machines Ch. 4 - Behavior Without Tho...
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Extra Reading (Not Completed) Bertrand Russell - Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description” (1910) The Problems of Philosophy (1912) Read: Gettier, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” Analysis, 23(6): 121-123. As you do so, thi...
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What Is Truth? - created from Mind Map How do we know what is true? "There Is A Place Called Heaven" Ayer - Emotion
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Faith - created from Mind Map Trust someone/person group Super natural being we gain Security and confidence that is fundamental to our sense of self and the status we give others as a realiable source of knowledge From habit of mind influenced by...
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TRUTH Is it a property?? What is it a property of?? Disquotationalism is widely accepted: Disquotationalism is Deflationism is the idea that asserting of something as true does not add or assign a property to the ...
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Perception as a source of knowledge Perception as a source of knowledge Direct realism Arguments for DR Arguments against DR Indirect Realism Arguments for IR Arguments against IR Idealism (BERKELEY) Arguments for Idealism Arguments against Ideali...
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