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Test #3 Questions Answer each of the questions below (two short and one long answer questions). This test is due Wednesday, May 18th 2011. Please submit your tests through the beachboard turnitin assignments page. All tests will be run through turnitin. Short Answer (approximately one typed page): 1.) What are the conceptual and doctrinal studies according to Quine? Why, according to Quine, have each of these studies failed? 2.) Why does Goldman
go through so many possible base clauses for an definition of
justification at the beginning of "What is Justified Belief"?
Give one example clause and Goldman’s criticism of it. Long Answer (approximately two to three typed pages): 3.) What are the two general charges Kim levels against Quine's version of Naturalized Epistemology (as Kim understands it). Give a detailed account of one of the arguments Kim uses to support his charges. What might Quine say about this argument.
Test #4 Questions Answer each of the questions below (two short and one long answer questions). This test is due Friday, May 20th 2011. Please submit your tests through the beachboard turnitin assignments page. All tests will be run through turnitin. Short Answer (approximately one typed page): 1.) What is BonJour's thesis in "Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge"? Outline one of the cases he presents in the paper discussing how BonJour thinks it illustrates his thesis.
2.) What, according to Salmon, is Reichenbach's argument for induction? What is ampliative inference and how does it differ from demonstrative inference?
Long Answer (approximately two to three typed pages):
3.) What is Intuition Driven
Romanticism (IDR) according to Stich, Nichols, and Weinberg?
Present one of their experimental results and discuss how/why it might
undermine IDR. Test #2 Questions Answer each of the questions below (two short and one long answer questions). This test is due Monday, March 18th 2011. Please submit your tests through the beachboard turnitin assignments page. All tests will be run through turnitin. Short Answer (approximately one typed page):
1.) Carefully recount Plato’s allegory of the cave, making sure to note what mental state, process, and objects characterize each place in the allegory. What are the characteristic tenants of rationalism? Why might one call Plato a rationalist?
2.) What are Gettier’s counterexamples intended to show about the traditional notion of knowledge as justified true belief? Outline Goldman’s causal theory of knowledge, making sure that you explicitly present the theory in your own words as much as possible. How does it deal with Gettier cases?
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3.) Outline basic coherentism. Discuss how Sosa and Kornblith view coherentism. Do these philosophers share the same view about the strengths and weaknesses of coherentism.
Test #1 Questions Answer each of the questions below (two short and one long answer questions). This test is due Wednesday, March 2nd 2011. Please submit your tests through the beachboard turnitin assignments page. All tests will be run through turnitin. Short Answer (approximately one typed page): 1.) Detail the aviary account of false belief in the Theatetus, and why Plato eventually rejects it. The best answers will (1) discuss the general problem to which the aviary is addressed, (2) outline the aviary metaphor explicitly tracing the connections between the aviary and the mind, (3) tell me how the discussants originally thought that the metaphor would serve to illucidate the human mind's solution to the general problem, and (4) why Plato thinks that the aviary metaphor fails to show how the problem could be solved. 2.) Outline the regress argument and the set of possible conclusions one might draw from it. Make sure that you explicitly present your version of the argument in standard form and in your own words. What mistake do foundationalist's make in the regress argument according to BonJour?
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