Sumários
Lesson 5a (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)
1 Abril 2020, 16:00 • Daniele Molinini
Skepticism. Global/Local and Strong/Weak skepticism. Focus on External word skepticism. How to construct a skeptical argument: skeptical hypothesis and ordinary knowledge. The closure principle for knowledge. A first response to the Skeptical argument: the sensitivity principle. Distinction between sensitive and insensitive beliefs. Examples.
Lesson 4b (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)
25 Março 2020, 18:00 • Daniele Molinini
Argument evaluation: discussion, examples and exercises.
Lesson 4a (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)
25 Março 2020, 16:00 • Daniele Molinini
Definition of 'argument' and distinction between an argument and an inference. Explanation and use of some logical rules (modus ponens, modus tollens). Example of a fallacy ('affirming the consequent’). Validity and soundness of an argument.
Lesson 3b (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)
18 Março 2020, 18:00 • Daniele Molinini
Reading: Gettier, E. L. (1963), Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?, Analysis, 23(6): 121–123.
Lesson 3a (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)
18 Março 2020, 16:00 • Daniele Molinini
The modal status of propositions (necessary, probable and contingent propositions). Discussion: modal talks are frequent not only among epistemologists, but also within philosophers of science (is a scientific law really necessary? Is a scientific fact a mere contingency? Are there different kinds of possibility/necessity?). Introduction to the notions of essential/accidental properties (de re Modality). The traditional (JTB) approach to knowledge and some traditional counterexamples to it.