Advanced Topics in Epistemology (Fall 2007)
September 12: Internalism and Its Problems
Plantinga,
“Justification, Internalism, and Deontology.”
Goldman, “Internalism Exposed.”
Conee and Feldman, “Internalism Defended,”
Comesana, “We Are (Almost) All Externalists Now.”
September 19: Evidence and Evidentialism
Feldman and Conee, “Evidentialism.”
Goldman, “Immediate
Justification and Process Reliabilism.”
Kelly, “Evidence.”
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Williamson, “Evidence.”
September 26: Epistemic Circularity
Vogel, “Reliabilism
Leveled.”
Cohen, “Basic
Knowledge and the Problem of Easy Knowledge.”
Van Cleve, “Is
Knowledge Easy – Or Impossible? Externalism as the Only
Alternative to Skepticism.”
October 3: Epistemic Goods, Rights, and Virtues
David, “Truth
as the Epistemic Goal.”
DePaul, “Truth
Consequentialism, Withholding and Proportioning Belief to the
Evidence.”
Sosa, “Epistemic
Normativity.”
Goldman, “Epistemic Norms and Values: What Are They and How
Are They Related?”
Feldman, “The
Ethics of Belief.”
Goldman, “Toward a Synthesis of Reliabilism and
Evidentialism.”
October 17: Epistemological Fusion (2): Externalism and Internalism
Alston, “An Internalist Externalism.”
Goldman, “Epistemic
Folkways and Scientific Epistemology.”
Goldman, “A Synthesis of Externalism and
Internalism.”
October 24: What Is Social Epistemology?
Goldman, “Why Social Epistemology is Real Epistemology.”
October 31: Testimony-based Justification and Trust in Experts
Fricker, “Against
Gullibility.”
Burge, “Content
Preservation.”
Goldman, “Experts:
Which Ones Should You Trust?”
November 7: The Reasonability of Peer Disagreement
Feldman, “Reasonable
Religious Disagreements.”
Elga, “Reflection
and Disagreement.”
Kelly, “Peer
Disagreement and Higher Order Evidence.”
November 14: Extracting Information from Groups
Sunstein, “Deliberating
Groups versus Prediction Markets.”
Anderson, “The
Epistemology of Democracy.”
November 28: Legal Adjudication
Goldman, “Law,” from Knowledge in a Social World.
December 5: Judgment Aggregation
List, “Group
Knowledge and Group Rationality.”
Pettit, “Groups
with Minds of Their Own.”