Class Notes for Philosophy 2006 at Western University

Unit V Lecture V – April 6, 2012 Szasz Challenging The Dominant Ideology  Szasz is aiming to argue from similarities in the way the Inquisition and Institutional Psychiatry work to an identity in their social fun...

Unit V Lecture IV – April 3, 2012 Hahn & Kleinman “Belief Kills; Belief Heals”  Do our beliefs, our expectations, either individual or cultural, cause harm or benefit to our bodies? o Hahn & Kleinman: ...

Unit V Lecture III – March 29, 2012 Andreski—The Syphilitic Shock What Andreski thinks an account of the witch craze should explain: 1. Its duration. 2. Its geographical extension. 3. Its generality/classlessness. 4. It...

Unit V Lecture II – March 27, 2012 Sidky—Hallucinogenic Drugs & Witches Questions About Belief & Rationality  We have various reasons for believing things – testimony, authority, empirical evidence, personal whim...

Unit V Lecture I – March 22, 2012 Evans-Pritchard Edward Evans-Pritchard  Born in 1902, went to Oxford  Excited by exotic study of different cultures  Evans-Pritchard wanted to know what people believed (their ...

Unit IV Lecture VI – March 15, 2012 Descartes – The Meditations on First Philosophy Context  After Descartes wrote his meditations, he sent them to various philosophers, theologians, and scientists to promote his...

Unit IV Lecture V – March 13, 2012 Boyle & Mechanism Nature As A Machine  17 c. – new approach to understanding natural objects and processes emerged  Nature was conceived as a great machine  This means that, w...

Unit IV Lecture IV – March 8, 2012 Francis Bacon Empiricism Vs. Rationalism  Empiricism  Knowledge comes to us primarily through sense experience o We test our knowledge not by thinking a priori whether it ...

Unit IV Lecture III – March 6, 2012 Francis Bacon Francis Bacon: The Great Instauration – 2 Main Themes  1) Limits on human reason [not direct realism, but the 4 idols]  2) Proper procedure in science [not Aristot...

Unit IV Lecture II – March 1, 2012 Skepticism Reborn Where Are We?  Historically o Legal & political centralization carried out to increase civil peace o Central law codes based on inquisitorial law [...

Unit IV Lecture I – February 28, 2012 Witchcraft, Science & Skepticism th  By end of 17 c., defenders of demonology & witchcraft tried to halt skepticism/disbelief among educated classes of Europe ...

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