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Putnam's Brains in Vats Argument I) The general argument File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML And if I am a brain in a vat, [I am a brain in a vat] is false. III) Some potential problems in Putnam's argument. A) Putnam made a few no0b moves. ... 2.
Monadology I) Truths of Reason / Truths of fact. File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML A) Truths of reason are known via the analysis of the parts. ... E) Nonetheless the truths of those components must have a reason. ... 3.
de Laplace, Philosophical Essay on Probability* File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML sophical Essay on Probability (1819), the French mathematician and philosopher Laplace argues that all events are connected with previous ones ... 4.
Free Will - The Landscape I) Determinism ("Hard Determinism") A ... File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML compatibilist agrees with the hard determinist on this much). But an individual could have done other than X just in case, if he had chosen otherwise, ... 5.
Euthyphro Notes I A general dilemma - The Paradox of Analysis File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Euthyphro Notes. I A general dilemma - The Paradox of Analysis. This is a very broad worry, one that will take the entire course to really address. ... 6.
Locke and the Causal - Representational theory of Mind I ... File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Locke and the Causal - Representational theory of Mind. I) Empiricism and the C-R theory in a nutshell. A) Locke's Empiricism tells us that all knowledge ... 7.
Goldman's Causal Theory of Knowing - Pt I I) The Thesis File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Goldman's Causal Theory of Knowing - Pt I. I) The Thesis. Knowledge that P = TJB that P + the belief that P is causally connected to (not caused by - see V) ... 8.
King Lear Ending Themes I) The redemption of Lear File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML King Lear. Ending Themes. I) The redemption of Lear. Obviously, Lear is completely nuts at the end of III. Does he get it back? Is he, in fact, a King who ... 9.
Apology - Notes I apologize for the apology. It seems to me to be ... File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML There's really no arguments here that I can see are worthy of note, so I'll use the Apology as a way of introducing several of Plato's important ... 10.
Descartes - The Rule of Truth, The Cartesian Circle, and the Role ... File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Descartes - The Rule of Truth, The Cartesian Circle, and the Role of God. I) The Rule of Truth. Descartes first stops to assess what he knows certainly. ... |
