PHIL 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Radiocarbon Dating, Experience Machine, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
25 May 2016
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Tests: mc and short answer (brief definitions, identify the form of reasoning in this passage, etc) Each test is accumulative, so we must remember info from test 1 in test 2 focus is on new material though. Go on carleton. ca and search for philosophy phil 2003 b syllabus. Why reasonable belief matters? (answer: truth, stability, safety, goodness, health: truth reasonable beliefs are more likely than unreasonable beliefs to be true. Eg: belief that the politician is honest, based on wishful thinking (unreasonable, belief that the politician is honest, based on sound evidence from her track-record (reasonable) Reasonable beliefs should reflect the world around. But does truth really matter: w. v. o quine: creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praiseworthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind . Induction = belief forming process, forming a belief about the world around.
