SSH 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fallibilism, Lucid Dream
17 Jan 2017
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Memorize ta"s name and section # (raffi section 39) Format; mcq, t&f (with explanation), s/a questions. Chapter 1 and 2 in textbook and ppt from week 1,2 and 3. The concept of knowledge and its key ingredients. 3 views about truth: realism, nihilism and relativism. 2 realist models of truth (coherence and correspondence) Philosophical skepticism (i) statements have truth value agrees with realist and relativist (ii) we don"t know what most or all of them are (in other words, we know a lot less than we think or nothing at all) Rene descartes (1596 1650: why hold this view. Evil genius hypothesis some kind of evil fore is enslaving your unconscious. Requiring absolute certainty for a belief to count as knowledge = asking too much. Consider: can the skeptic say that (i) and (ii) provide justification for (iii) A proposition is true because it fits with a system of well supported proposition, otherwise it is false.
