

His cogito as an example of an a priori intuition.René Descartes’ notion of ‘clear and distinct ideas’.The meaning of ‘intuition’ and ‘deduction’ and the distinction between them.the mind as a 'tabula rasa' (the nature of impressions and ideas, simple and complexĪnd issues with these responses.Leibniz (ie his argument based on necessary truths). Reason as a source of knowledge InnatismĪrguments from Plato (ie the 'slave boy' argument) and Gottfried That God cannot feel pain or have sensations?)Īnd responses to these issues. How can Berkeley claim that our ideas exist within God's mind given that he believes problems with the role played by God in Berkeley's Idealism (including.arguments from illusion and hallucination.Primary/secondary quality distinction and his 'Master' argument. Arguments for idealism including Berkeley's attack on the.Tables, chairs, etc) are mind-dependent objects. The immediate objects of perception (ie ordinary objects such as

Mind-independent objects because mind-dependent ideas cannot be like

Bertrand Russell's response that the external world is the 'best.the argument from the coherence of various kinds of experience,Īs developed by Locke and Catharine Trotter Cockburn (attrib).Locke's argument from the involuntary nature of our.the argument that it leads to scepticism about the existence of.John Locke's primary/secondary quality distinction.(sense-data) that are caused by and represent mind-independent objects. The immediate objects of perception are mind-dependent objects The immediate objects of perception are mind-independent objects and theirĪnd responses to these issues. Perception as a source of knowledge Direct realism replace 'justified' with an account of epistemic virtue.replace 'justified' with 'reliably formed' (R+T+B) (ie.add a 'no false lemmas' condition (J+T+B+N).strengthen the justification condition (ie infallibilism).responses: alternative post-Gettier analyses/definitions of.(including Edmund Gettier’s original two counter examples): the conditions are not sufficient – cases of lucky true beliefs.the conditions are not individually necessary.

Issues with the tripartite view including: S believes that p (individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions).Propositional knowledge is defined as justified true belief: S knows The nature of definition (including Linda Zagzebski) and how propositional knowledge.The distinction between acquaintance knowledge, ability knowledge and propositional.Published 26 October 2016 | PDF | 610.2 KB 3.1 Epistemology What is knowledge?
