Gettier

In your view, are the criteria of justification, truth, and conviction necessary and sufficient conditions for having knowledge?

Philosophy 1010: Introduction to Philosophy Summer 2022 1. Knowledge & Knowing In the Mediations, Descartes was concerned to find knowledge that was true, certain, and well-justified. Three centuries later, A. J. Ayer wrote that to know something is have a justified true belief about it. Gettier objected to Ayer’s characterization of knowledge by offering a […]

Create your own unique argument about how to apply this topic to any of the contexts that we have faced within the past year.

Person-hood Our main learning objective is ‘analysis’. But what’s the point of analyzing if we can’t apply. Our task is to synthesize, structure, and apply concepts from our course. The purpose of this assignment is twofold: 1) To organize applied information in a precise form; 2) To make something that narrates your complex idea. Your […]

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