PH29A Epistemology and Methodology

Tutorial Reading Schedule

The following is a tentative schedule of topics/readings for our tutorial sessions:

1. 16 Sept 6-7: Tutorial 1: Whiteley on epistemological strategies - Ed
2. 23 Sept 6-7: Tutorial 2: Gettier "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" - Ann Pierre
3. 30 Sept: Tutorial 3: Putnam on brains in a vat - David Turpin
4. 7 Oct: Tutorial 4: Nozick on tracking the truth - Stanley Griffin
5. 14 Oct: Tutorial 5: Hanson on seeing the sun rise - Jason Phillips
6. 21 Oct: Tutorial 6: Quine "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" - Raquel Gilkes
7. 28 Oct: Tutorial 7: no session but please read Stove's account of Hume's argument about induction
8. 4 Nov: Tutorial 8: Popper on the solution to the problem of induction - Chantal Graham
9. 11 Nov: Tutorial 9: Mackie, "The Paradox of Confirmation" and his later paper, "The Relevance Criterion of Confirmation" - Shannon Hopper
10. 18 Nov.: Tutorial 10: Feyerabend on "anything goes" and the disestablishment of science
11. 25 Nov: Tutorial 11: Suppes, "The Plurality of Science" - Kimberley Williams
12. 2 Dec: Tutorial 12: Bernard Williams on the absolute conception of the world - Marlon Pollard

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Ed Brandon, last revision 12 September 2003