Philosophy 420
Fall 2015, MWF, 9am, BSS 204
Michael F. Goodman
Department of Philosophy
Humboldt State University
Talk about the class:
The majority of the semester will be spent studying issues in contemporary epistemology (theory of knowledge). Possible topics are:
The nature of knowledge,
Epistemic justification, A priori knowledge, Skepticism, Perception, Contextualism, Internalism/Externalism, Foundationalism, Coherentism, Naturalized epistemology, and Evolutionary epistemology.
In the main, we will be studying papers by well known analytic epistemologists from the last 40 years.
We will take about 5 weeks for the study of contemporary metaphysics. This is much too short a time to deal with many topics
and we will, therefore, study two or three of the following: Time, The Universal/Particular
debate, Truth, The Realism/antirealism debate, Substance, Personhood, Events, and Identity. Again, we will be reading papers by more or less recent analytic philosophers.
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Logic Page | Analytic Philosophy |
Possibly useful journals online:
Mind: http://www3.oup.co.uk/mind/
Australasian Journal of Philosophy: www3.oup.co.uk/ajphil/contents/
British Journal of Aesthetics: www3.oup.co.uk/aesthj/
British Journal for Philosophy of Science: www3.oup.co.uk/phisci/
Essays in Philosophy: www.humboldt.edu/~essays/
Journal of Philosophy: http://www.jstor.org/journals/jphil.html
History of Philosophy: http://sapientia.hunter.cuny.edu/~philosophy/JHP/JHP.htm
Noûs: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00294624.html
Philosophical Quarterly: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00318094.html
Philosophical Review: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00318108.html
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research: www.jstor.org/journals/00318205.html
All required and recommended texts can be found in the section for this course in the HSU Bookstore.
