PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Analytic Philosophy
10 Apr 2019
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March 12: prof will give us updated schedule of readings. If you"re unhappy with final grade, talk to the prof and he"ll regrade it. If you go to court and say you were a different person ten years ago not a reason, an excuse for moral/legal responsibility: who you are morally/legally is different. Sometimes this reasoning is acceptable: someone who has a religious awakening, dramatic shift in belief . Idea that people undergo lots of change but we still have the view that people don"t change. Background: hume is an empiricist (other important ones: locke and berkeley) If all our knowledge comes from our experience: we need to experience causation: but we notice that we never see the causation ! We infer it or reason it: causation could still exist but we have no reason to believe in it, hume"s argument, on powerpoint. In order to know something you have to see it, smell it, taste it.
