Locke - Ideas, Perception, and Primary vs. Secondary Qualities
Week 4Hume - The Problem of Induction
Week 5Ellis - Kant's Transcendental Idealism
Kant - Transcendental Idealism
Plato - The Allegory of the Cave
Week 6Reminder: Readings from Huemer's SVP on Blackboard
Nagel - What Does it All Mean? (excerpt)
Week 7Moore - Proof of an External World
Moore - Hume's Theory Explained (optional)
Beebe - The Abductivist Reply to Skepticism (read to end of section 4)
Gettier - Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
Goldman - Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge
Week 8Baumann - Epistemic Contrastivism
Chalmers - The Matrix as Metaphysics
Week 9Huemer - Direct Realism and the Brain-in-a-Vat Argument
Week 10Bostrom - You are Living in a Matrix
Rinard - Reasoning One's Way Out of Skepticism
Carroll - What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
Goodman - The New Riddle of Induction
Week 11Christensen - Disagreement as Evidence (read to end of section 2)
(Nguyen: Source article here, audio below)
Listen: Nguyen - Escape the Echo Chamber
Week 12Mackie - The Subjectivity of Values
Huemer - Ethical Intuitionism (excerpts)
Vavova - Evolutionary Debunking of Moral Realism
Watch: Huemer - The Progress of Liberalism
Plantinga - An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism
Week 13Ney - The Special Composition Question
Van Inwagen - When are Objects Parts? (optional)
Perry - Dialogue on Personal Identity
Week 14Parfit - Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons
Listen: Adamson - Pyrrho and Skepticism
Sextus Empiricus, Saint Augustine, Hume, and Reid on Skepticism vs. Happiness