Philosophy 240

Professor: Charles Wallis	Office Phone: 822-4939

Office: Buchanan E375	Office Hours: MTW 1 -2pm

e-mail: wallis @ unix.ubc.ca

BOOKS:

Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches

Photocopy packet

SCHEDULE/READINGS

MTG 1:	Introduction to the course.

MTG 2:	Classical Epistemology: Beginnings, Scpeticism , and Foundationalism

Readings: Plato's Theaetetus , Descartes' Meditations

MTG 3:	Classical Epistemology: Foundationalism and Coherentism

Readings: Descartes' Meditations, BonJour 's Holistic Coherentism

MTG 4:	Classical Epistemology: Foundationalism , Coherentism , and Gettier

Readings: BonJour , Gettier 's Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?, Feldman's An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples

MTG 5:	Naturalized Epistemology as a Framework for Epistemology

Readings: Goldman's A Causal Theory of Knowing, Sosa 's The Raft and the Pyramid

MTG 6:	Naturalized Epistemology as a Framework for Epistemology

Readings: Quine's Naturalizing Epistemology, Kornblith 's What is Naturalistic Epistemology?

MTG 7:	Naturalized Epistemology and It's Critics

Readings: Kornblith 's Beyond Foundationalism and Coherence Theory, Kim's What is "Naturalized Epistemology"?

MTG 8:	Naturalized Epistemology, Reliabilism and Their Critics

Readings: Stroud 's Naturalized Epistemology, BonJour 's Externalist Theories of Empirical

Knowledge

MTG 9:	Reliablism and Naturalism Respond

Readings: Goldman's The Internalist Conception of Justification and Epistemic Folkways

and Scientific Epistemology

MTG 10:	Catch-up or Dretske 's Precise to Knowledge and the Flow of Imformation

Course Requirements

Course grades will be based upon nine 1-2 page papers (one due each meeting after the first meeting). The papers will be written in response to questions (handed out the meeting before) and will be of a primarily discursive nature. Grades on the papers will be on a scale of one to ten points.