PHI 313: Theory of Knowledge, Fall 2017
Reasons for Belief
Mapping setup/warmup
Practical reasons for belief
Belief at will
Epistemic demands of friendship
The Problem of Disagreement
Steadfast views and conciliatory views
Group disagreement and the problem of spinelessness
Prpblem of contigency
Moral debunking
Reasonable disagreemnt and the uniqueness thesis
Skepticism
Skepticism about the external world
The problem and new riddle of induction
Anthropic Reasoning
The simulation argument
Are you living in a computer simulation?
The mysteries of self-locating belief and anthropic reasoning