Lecture Notes
Week 1
Corpuscularianism (Galileo)
The New Science (Bacon)
Week 2
Descartes: Meditations 1 & 2
Week 3
Locke: Ideas, Qualities, Perception, Skepticism
Berkeley: Idealism
Week 4
Hume: The Problem of Induction
Hume: Skepticism
Reid: Direct Realism
Week 5
Kant: Transcendental Idealism
Plato: The Allegory of the Cave
Week 6
Global Skepticism
The Brain in a Vat
Week 7
The G.E. Moore Shift
Inference to the Best Explanation
The Gettier Problem
Week 8
Contrastivism
Semantic Externalism (Putnam)
The Matrix as Metaphysics (Chalmers)
Week 9
Huemer's Direct Realism
Huemer's Phenomenal Conservatism
Week 10
The Simulation Argument
Skepticism is Self-Defeating (Rinard & Elgin)
New Problems for Induction (Grue and Ravens)
Week 11
Peer Disagreement
Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles
Week 12
Moral Skepticism (Ethical Nihilism)
Evolutionary Debunking of Moral Realism
Evolutionary Debunking of Naturalism
Week 13
Material Identity (The Ship of Theseus)
Material Composition
Personal Identity
Week 14
Split-Brain Cases
Skepticism & Happiness
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