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2024-1 Seminar Metaphysics 1. A Fundamental Issue in the Philosophy of the SelfOne of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of the self is to elucidate what ensures the continuity of personal identity. Put differently, the specific question would be as follows: What criteria determine that a person at time t1 is numerically the same as that person at time t2? This is because (1) we perceive o..

Richard Fumerton, "What the Internalist Should Say to the Tortoise," Episteme, 12, 2 (2015) 209–217. 1. Introduction① Carroll’s (1895) short piece “What the Tortoise said to Achilles” in many ways anticipates issues that arise in a number of contemporary controversies. One might argue, for example, that initially plausible attempts to deal with the problem of easy knowledge will land one in the ..

Cohen (2002) Basic Knowledge and the Problem of Easy Knowledge  1. Basic Knowledge and the KR PrincipleP1 We acquire knowledge of the world through belief sources like sense perception, memory, and induction.P2 Such sources can not deliver knowledge unless we know the source is reliable.P3 But surely our knowledge that sense perception is reliable will be based on knowledge we have about the wor..

2024-1 Wittgenstein #2) Nonsense (Unsinn) (OR sometimes translate “Unsinn” as “senseless”) As mentioned above, nonsense can be defined as the result of failing to comply with the rules of logical syntax (3.325). Unlike a proposition with a sense, nonsense cannot depict (abbilden) any reality, nor can it represent (darstellen) the possibility of reality (2.06, 2.17, 2.201). Since “a proposition i..

2024-1 Wittgenstein #1) Senseless (sinnlos) ‘Senseless,’ or in the original German, ‘sinnlos,’ is one of the three main categories used in the Tractatus to classify propositions (Sätze). The Tractarian concept of ‘sinnlos’ is particularly crucial for understanding the nature of logical propositions (die logischen Sätze). According to Tractarian accounts of language, every proposition belongs to ..

2024-1 Seminar Epistemology Srinivasan’s Radical Externalism 1. What’s going on here? The Overall Picture of Radical Externalism In her paper, Srinivasan presents three epistemologically distinctive cases – ‘Racist Dinner Table,’ ‘Classist College,’ and ‘Domestic Violence’ – in which social hierarchies, discrimination, and power effects are subtly intertwined. She then argues that “externalism h..