REVIEW FOR THE FINAL
Part A. Be prepared to write a
paragraph in explication of the following positions or pairs of
positions and arguments (50%, 5 out of 8):
1. the correspondence and disquotational theories of truth
2. Plato's account of knowledge
3. belief, occurrent and non-occurrent, the dispositional and
state-object theories of
4. Russell and Ayer on sense-data
5. the isolation objection and modified coherentism
6. non-doxastic warrant according to moderate foundationalism (and the
"doxastic" dilemma)
7. objective justification according to Pollock
8. knowledge as "tracking the truth" according to Nozick
9. the empiricist theory of meaning (including the verificationalist
criterion)
10. Wittgenstein's (anti-)private-language argument
11. Wittgenstein on doubt and certainty (especially the parasitism
argument)
12. Nyaya's sources of knowledge: perception, inference, and testimony
13. strong and weak justification according to Goldman and Sosa
14. externalism's generality problem
Part B. Be prepared to write a philosophical essay on the
internalist/externalist debate in epistemology. You will be asked to
use modified as well as classical foundationalism as an example of
internalism and at least two externalist views, Nyaya (simple or
infallible-process externalism), (historical or generic) reliabilism,
and/or (Sosa's) virtue epistemology. (50%)