PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig Wittgenstein

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 1B03
• Professor: Wil Waluchow

Document Summary

Seeks to determine what basic sorts of things are real. It does ask: what does it mean to say something is a physical object, what is it to be a physical object. Does the worlds contain mental, physical and abstract things (numbers) Basically do they have minds and bodies: epistemology. Deals with the nature and scope of knowledge. What does it mean to know a statement or proposition. Are there sources of knowledge beyond reason and the evidence provided by our senses. We can never experience the distant past and we have yet to experience the future (distant and near) If the premises are true the conclusion is true. Valid if successfully certain on their conclusions. Ones which fail to follow are invalid. Questions to figure it out: if the premises were true would the truth of the conclusions follow, are the premises in fact all true, inductive. Set out to support their conclusions without conferring certainty on them.