PHIL 110A, section 1

Useful Links

Week 1

Elliott Sober.

The best on-line source on philosophical topics is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

For historical information on particular philosophers, the Wikipedia entries are ok. Important philosophers worth reading about include: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, John Stuart Mill, and Charles Peirce. Influential twentieth-century philosophers include Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Dewey, Edmund Husserl, W. V. O. Quine, John Rawls, and Thomas Kuhn.

Thagard's blog post on natural philosophy.

Thagard's critique of thought experiments.

Week 2

The analysis of knowledge (SEP)

Descartes

Foundationalism

Week 3

Reliabilism

Coherentism

Thagard's article on epistemological metaphors.

Thagard's most recent article on coherence.

Week 5

Metaphysics

Existence of God

Does everything happen for a reason?

Week 6

Explanation

Causation

Week 7

Coherence theory of truth

Pascal's wager updated.

God and evil

Week 9

Dualism

Behaviorism

Other minds

Week 10

Functionalism

Week 11

Free will


PHIL 110, home page

Paul Thagard

Computational Epistemology Laboratory.

This page updated Mar. 17, 2014.