PHL232H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Time Travel, Truth Table, Material Conditional
Monday, September 12, 2016
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PHL 232 Knowledge and Reality: Lecture 1
Introduction
- Epistemology:
• Nature of knowledge
• Classical arguments for scepticism
- Responses to the sceptical challenge
- What is is to justify or hold a founded belief.
• Consider what genuine or real knowledge is and merely true belief.
- Metaphysics:
• The philosophical study of the nature of reality and particular aspects of reality
• Topics:
- What is causation?
- Temporal persistence and identity over time: how is it that an ordinary object
persists through time while undergoing change?
- The nature of time itself: whether or not time is real.
- Time travel (is it possible)
- Aims of the course:
• critical reading, writing and argument assessment
Scepticism
- Broadly speaking scepticism is the view that with respect to a given class of
propositions, P, for any proposition p in that class we do not know that p is true.
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Document Summary
Epistemology: nature of knowledge, classical arguments for scepticism. What is is to justify or hold a founded belief: consider what genuine or real knowledge is and merely true belief. Metaphysics: the philosophical study of the nature of reality and particular aspects of reality, topics: The nature of time itself: whether or not time is real. Aims of the course: critical reading, writing and argument assessment. Broadly speaking scepticism is the view that with respect to a given class of propositions, p, for any proposition p in that class we do not know that p is true. Scepticism about the laws of logic and arithmetic. This is that view that we never know that any proposition that is purely the laws of logic and arithmetic is true: i do not know that 2+2=4. Global scepticism: the global sceptical maintains that no proposition whatsoever is knowable.
