PHIL 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dubbing (Filmmaking), Races Of Starcraft, Proportional Representation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 157
• Professor: Mark Smith

Document Summary

Epistemological categories: (different family of claims that we know some stuff) January 6, 2016: a posteriori (k) (empirical) The periodic table is a variety of a posteriori facts: a priori (rational) You cant have two things true at the same time when they contradict them self. You cannot have a circular triangle something known independently of experience. **two places where objectivity can exist, these two categories are based on scientific evidence: aesthetic knowledge/moral knowledge is not knowledge at all, moral scepticism (says that there is not moral knowledge) Since there are things such as physical, logical and mathematical facts) When we act we deicide what we want to happen based on our passions or desires, you have to care (emotional engagement) in order for you to choose to do something. Aggregate- happiness has to do with raising the amount of happiness for the largest amount of people. Consequence oriented: hedonistic calculus- measures the consequences of an action;