Phil 292: Theory of Knowledge
Syllabus: pdf, pdf (version 2, 3/1)
pdf (version 3, 3/24)
Instructor: Mike Deigan
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Zoom Room: link

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Week 1

1/23 Introduction (no reading)

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Week 2

1/28 Al-Ghazali (reading 1, 4 pages)
Descartes (reading 2, reading 3, 19 pages)
 
1/30 More Descartes (reading 4, 28 pages)
 
2/1 Weekly write-up due at 2:00 pm!

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Week 3

2/4 Sextus Empiricus
(reading 1, reading 2, reading 3, 22 pages)
 
2/6 Hume (reading 4, reading 5, 13 pages)
 
2/8 Weekly write-up due at 2:00 pm!

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Week 4

2/11 Bertrand Russell
(reading 1, reading 2, reading 3, 14 pages)
 
2/13 Elliott Sober (reading 4, 5 pages)
Susanna Rinard (reading 5, 8 pages)
 
2/15 Weekly write-up due at 2:00 pm!

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Week 5

2/18 Timothy Williamson (reading 1, 5 pages)
Amia Srinivasan (reading 2, 7 pages)
 
2/20 G. E. Moore (reading 3, 6 pages)
William Lycan (reading 4, 13 pages)
 
2/22 Discussion reports due at 11:59 pm!

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Week 6

2/25 David Lewis (reading 1, 14 pages)
 
2/27 Alvin Plantinga (reading 2, 11 pages)
 
2/29 Weekly write-up due at 2:00 pm!

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Week 7

3/3 Paper workshop (no reading)
 
3/5 Plato (reading 1, 1 page)
Edmund Gettier (reading 2, 3 pages)
Jonathan Kvanvig (reading 3, 8 pages)
 
No weekly write-up this week!

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Spring Break!

3/10 Paper Assignment #1 due at 11:59 pm!

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Week 8

3/24 Pascal (reading 1, 3 pages)
W. K. Clifford (reading 2, 17 pages)
 
3/26 William James (reading 3, 24 pages)

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Week 9

3/31 Thomas Kelly (reading 1, 15 pages)
Arpaly and Brinkerhoff (reading 2, 10 pages)
 
4/2 Susanna Rinard (reading 3, 13 pages)

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Week 10

4/7 Michael Huemer (reading 1, 10 pages)
New York Times (reading 2)
FiveThirtyEight (reading 3)
LessWrong (reading 4)
 
4/9 Alvin Goldman (reading 5, 19 pages)

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Week 11

4/14 Charles Mills (reading 1, 18 pages)
4/16 Elizabeth Anderson (reading 2, 13 pages)

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Week 12

4/21 C. Thi Nguyen (reading 1, 18 pages)
4/23 Thomas Kelly (reading 2, 17 pages)

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Week 13

4/28 Paper workshop (no reading)
4/29 Paper Assignment #2 draft due at 11:59 pm!
4/30 Miriam Schoenfield (reading 1, 1,500 words)

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Week 14

5/5 Wrap-up and paper workshop (no reading)
Handout: where to go after 292

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Finals Week

5/14 Paper Assignment #2 due at 11:59 pm!
 
Have a great summer!