Philosophy 493/593

Professor: Charles Wallis	Office Phone: (562) 985-4345

Office: MHB 901	Office Hours: M, T, TH 11:15 -12:15pm

E-mail: cwallis @ csulb.edu	Web Page:

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Books

Reserve Readings

How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich

Epistemology and Cognition by Alvin Goldman

The Science of illusions by Jacques Ninio

SCHEDULE/READINGS

Week 1:	Introduction to Course

Classical Epistemology: Overview

Readings: Human Knowledge: It's Nature, Sources, and Limits (Course packet)

Week 2:	Naturalized Epistemology as a Framework for Epistemology

Readings: Goldman's A Causal Theory of Knowing (Course packet)

Quine's Naturalizing Epistemology (Course packet)

Week 3:	Naturalized Epistemology and It's Critics

Readings: Kornblith 's What is Naturalistic Epistemology? (Course packet)

Kim's What is "Naturalized Epistemology"? (Course packet)

Week 4:	Naturalized Epistemology: Internalism vs Externalism

Readings: Goldman's The Internalist Conception of Justification (Course packet)

BonJour 's Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge (Course packet)

Week 5:	Cognitive Science: Historical Origins

Readings: Selection from Howard Gardner

Week 6:	Case Study: Epistemology and Cognition

Readings: "Part I" Ch 1-6

Week 7:	Case Study: Epistemology and Cognition

Readings: "Part I" Ch 1-6 cont.

"Part II" Ch 9-16

Week 8:	Case Study: Epistemology and Cognition

Readings: "Part II" Ch 9-16 cont.

Week 9:	Introspection

Readings: Nisbett and Ross on Reserve

Week 10: Certainty

Readings: reserve article

Week 11: Vision: General Overview and Introduction

Readings: Ninio 's Ch 1 and Ch 3

Week 12: Vision

Readings: Ninio 's Ch 4 and selected examples.

Week 13:	Reasoning: Introduction

Readings: "Introduction" from Necessary Illusions (reserve)

"Introduction" from How We Know What Isn't So by Gilovich

Ninio 's Ch 13

Doings: Thursday, November 22nd Thanksgiving Holiday

Week 14: Reasoning

Readings: "Seven Deadly Sins" from Necessary Illusions (reserve)

"Part One" from How We Know What Isn't So by Gilovich

Week 15: Reasoning

Readings: "Part Two" and "Part Three" from How We Know What Isn't So by Gilovich