Knowledge and its Limits and its Limits (Graduate)
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Fall 2024 (with Jack Spencer)

Syllabus

Sessions:
​Sep 4    Internalism and Externalism

• Wedgwood 2002, “Internalism Explained”  (Kevin)   [Handout]
• ​KaiL, Introduction, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 (Jack)  [Handout]

Sep 11   Luminosity 

• KaiL: Chapter 4 (Kevin)   [Handout]
• Srinivasan 2015, “Are We Luminous?” – Pauliina

Sep 18     Iteration 

• KaiL: Chapter 5  (Kevin)  [Handout]
• Das and Salow 2018, “Transparency and the KK Principle” — Jack

Sep 25   Evidence    [Kevin traveling]

• KaiL: Chapter 9  (Jack)
• Smithies 2014, “The Phenomenal Basis of Epistemic Justification” — Neil

Oct 02  Knowledge and action   [Kevin traveling]

• Hyman 2015, Chapter 6  (Jack)
• Hyman 2015, Chapter 7 and Chapter 8  — David

Oct 09   Knowledge, safe knowledge, and cheap, plastic scales

• Jack’s paper  (Jack)

Oct 16   Rachel chapters  — Kevin [Handout] and  Felipe

• Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2

Oct 23   Rachel visits
Oct 30  Probability 

• KaiL: Chapter 10  (Kevin)  [Handout]
• Salow (2018), “The Externalist’s Guide to Fishing for Compliments” — Helena

Nov 6  Probability 

• Dorst 2020, “Evidence: A Guide for the Uncertain”  (Kevin)  [Handout]

Nov 13 Normality

• Goodman and Salow 2023, “Epistemology Normalized”  (Jack)

Nov 20  Maria Lasonen-Aarnio   [Book draft]

• Chapter 1
• Perspectives and Good Dispositions
• Optional: Guidance and Epistemic Filtering

Nov 27 (No class—holiday)
Dec 04  Maria Lasonen-Aarnio 

• Chapter 2 and Chapter 3
• The prescriptive and the hypological

Dec 11  Maria zooms in

December 18: PAPER DRAFTS DUE