PHIL2901 Epistemology and Methodology
Tutorial Reading Schedule
The following is a schedule of topics/readings for our tutorial sessions:
- 14 Sept 6-7: Tutorial 1: Whiteley on epistemological strategies
- Ed
- 21 Sept 6-7: Tutorial 2: Descartes 1st Meditation (Bennett's
"translation") - Felicia Dujon
- 28 Sept: Tutorial 3: Bernard Williams on the absolute
conception of the world -
- 5 Oct: Tutorial 4: no session but please read Hume On
Miracles - Crystal Barker, Joy Mayers; Jon Menkes
- 12 Oct: Tutorial 5: Gettier "Is Justified True Belief
Knowledge?" - Rosita Farrell, Keironne Banfield-Nathaniel
- 19 Oct: Tutorial 6: Quine "Two
Dogmas of Empiricism" - Nigel Newton;
- 26 Oct: Tutorial 7: Hanson on seeing the sun rise - Leslie Best, Marlene Lovell, Melba Griffith;
Francia Bowen, Roslyn Griffith
- 2 Nov: Tutorial 8: Popper on the solution to the problem of
induction and Okasha on Hume's argument about
induction - Cleopatra Gilkes, (Alford Ashton), (Amoy Gilding)
- 9 Nov: Tutorial 9: no session but please read Haack on expert evidence in
law courts - (Janine Jones), (Kemar Clarke),
(Melissa Taitt)
- 16 Nov.: Tutorial 10: Feyerabend on "anything goes"
and the disestablishment of science - Ingrid Ramsey, Deborah Clement
- 23 Nov: Tutorial 11: Thagard on Astrology
- Fabian Lewis, Samantha Hazlewood, Tracia Seifert, Kaye Mandeville
- 30 Nov: Tutorial 12: no session but please read Suppes, "The Plurality of Science"
- (Neil Moe), (Sherry-Ann Murray), (Shontelle Layne), (Simone Shepherd),
Ian Lewis
Please let me know as soon as possible which of you will be taking each
topic. To the extent that it is possible I would like two people to tackle each
week's work, one presenting a positive account of the ideas in the reading and
the other trying to pick holes in them (for tutorial 8 that is already done for
you by my giving two differing views).
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Ed Brandon, last revision 28 October 2005