Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Augeas, Polymath, Public Knowledge

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: John Thorp

Document Summary

How certain are they: given that all experience is private (remember sarah and green-orange. Switch) how do we achieve public knowledge: does the world out there resemble my impression of it, are there biases that operate in our understanding of the world, hadd! Historical and biographical matter: one of the most famous philosophical texts of all time: meditations on. First philosophy: was a polymath: interested in philosophy, accomplished mathematician/ scientist, father of modern philosophy. Period in which he wrote was a period of great intellectual confusion. Aristotle has been dominant but was slowly being debased: interested in physical apparatus of knowledge (how vision works, place in brain where soul is, interested in the nature of science and in the method of science. People beginning to write in their own language: the project. Descartes project was to pull down the edifice of knowledge . Start again to get rid of confusion.