Naturalized Epistemology

Professor: Dr. Charles Wallis	Office Phone: 885-1211 ex. 2778

Office: 329 Hagey Hall	Office Hours: W, TH 11 -12pm

e-mail: cwallis @ watarts.uwaterloo.ca

Course Web Page: www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /~ cwallis /478. htm

BOOKS:

Naturalizing Epistemology by Hilary Kornblith

Epistemology and Cognition by Alvin Goldman

Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches ed. Paul Moser

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: Coherentism and Gettier

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

MT G 4:	Naturalized Epistemology as a Framework for Epistemology

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

MT G 5:	Naturalized Epistemology as a Framework for Epistemology

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

MT G 6:	Naturalized Epistemology and It's Critics

Readings: Kornblit h's Beyond Foundationalis m and Coherence Theory, Kim's What is"Naturalized Epistemology"?

MT G 7:	Naturalized Epistemology, Reliabilis m and Their Critics

Readings: Strou d's Naturalized Epistemology, BonJou r's Externalis t Theories of Empirical Knowledge

MT G 8:	Reliablis m and Naturalism Respond

Readings: Goldman's The Internalis t Conception of Justification and Epistemic Folkways

and Scientific Epistemology

MT G 9:	Goldman's Epistemology and Cognition, pp.13-142

MT G 10:	Goldman's Epistemology and Cognition, pp. 181-226, Nisbet t and Ross' Judgement Heuritistic s and Knowledge Structures.

MT G 11:	Goldman's Epistemology and Cognition, pp. 278-358, Stic h's Could Man be an Irratina l Animal?

Course Requirements

Course grades will be based upon a presentation to be given during the term and a final paper to be turned in the last day of class for which the student will submit a proposal no later than the 6th meeting.