PHIL 350A: READING ASSIGNMENTS

Reading assignments are taken from the two course texts: Laurence BonJour, Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses, and Louis P. Pojman, What Can We Know? An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge. The texts are available for purchase at the University Book Store. Except for weeks 1 and 6, readings should be done before class on the Tuesday of the week they are assigned. The Week 1 readings should be done by the beginning of Week 2 and the Week 6 readings should be done by that Thursday of that week.

Week 1 (Sept. 28): Introduction: What is knowledge? What is belief?

Reading Assignment: BonJour, Introduction;

Pojman, Chap. 1, pp. 1-4 and 12-15, Chap. 15, pp. 273-277 (ignore the last two paragraphs of this chapter).

Week 2 (Oct 3-5): Perception: Appearance and Reality

Reading Assignment: BonJour, Chap. 6;

Pojman, Chap. 4;

BonJour, Chap 7.

Week 3 (Oct. 10-12): Empirical Justification: Foundationalism and Coherentism

Reading Assignment: Pojman, Chaps. 6-7;

BonJour, Chap. 9.

Week 4-(Oct. 17-19): A Priori Justification and Reasoning

Reading Assignment: Pojman, Chap. 1, pp. 16-20, and Chap. 12;

BonJour, Chap. 5, then Chap. 4.

Week 5 (Oct. 24-26): Knowledge and Truth

Reading Assignment: Pojman, Chap. 1, pp. 4-12, and Chap. 5;

BonJour, Chap. 3.

Week 6 (Oct. 31-Nov. 2): Internalism and Externalism

MIDTERM EXAM IN CLASS ON TUESDAY, OCT. 31.

Reading Assignment: Pojman, Chap. 8;

BonJour, Chap. 10.

Week 7 (Nov. 7-9): Other Minds, Testimony, and Memory

Reading Assignment: Pojman, Chaps. 13-14;

BonJour, Chap. 8.

Week 8 (Nov. 14-16): Naturalized Epistemology

Reading Assignment: Pojman, Chap. 10;

BonJour, Chap. 11.

Week 9 (Nov. 21): Virtue Epistemology

NO CLASS ON THURSDAY, NOV. 23 (THANKSGIVING DAY).

Reading Assignment: Pojman, Chap. 11.

Week 10 (Nov. 28-30): Pragmatism and Skepticism

Reading Assignment: Pojman, Chaps. 2-3;

BonJour, Chaps. 2 and 12.

Week 11 (Dec. 5-7): Conclusion

Reading Assignment: BonJour Conclusion, pp. 277-278