PHIL2405
PHIL2405 Reading List 2021/22
Dr Lea Salje
L.C.Salje@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
- Week 1: The analysis of knowledge
- Week 2: The structure of justification
- Week 3: knowledge of value
- Week 4: Aesthetic Testimony
- Week 5: Imaginative knowledge
- Week 6: Knowledge first approaches
- Week 7: Understanding
- Week 8: Naturalised epistemology
- Week 9: Virtue epistemology
- Week 10: Social epistemology
Week 1: The analysis of knowledge
Sections 1,3,4,5 of Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa and Matthew Steup, ‘The Analysis of Knowledge’ in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 edn), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), (2018)
Background reading: Edmund Gettier (1963) 'Is justified true belief knowledge?', Analysis - https://academic.oup.com/analysis/article/23/6/121/109949
Background reading: Linda Zagzebski (2017) ‘The Lesson of Gettier’, Ch. 10 of Explaining Knowledge: New Essays on the Gettier Problem
Week 2: The structure of justification
Catherine Z. Elgin, ‘Non-Foundationalist Epistemology: holism, coherence and tenability’ in Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, ed. Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa. Boston: Blackwell (2005)
Background reading: BonJour (1978) ‘Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?’, American Philosophical Quarterly - https://shibbolethsp.jstor.org/start?entityID=https%3A%2F%2Fpassport01.leeds.ac.uk%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth&dest=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4319585&site=jstor
Week 3: knowledge of value
McGrath, Sarah, ‘Moral Knowledge and Experience’ in Russ Shafer-Landau Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume 6 OUP (2011)
Background reading: Stratton-Lake, Philip, "Intuitionism in Ethics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/intuitionism-ethics/>.
Background reading: Daniels, Norman, "Reflective Equilibrium", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/reflective-equilibrium/>.
Week 4: Aesthetic Testimony
Jon Robson, ‘Aesthetic Testimony’, in Philosophy Compass, 7:1 (2012)
Background reading: A. Meskin, 'Aesthetic Testimony: What Can We Learn From Others About Beauty and Art?' in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69.1 (2004)
Week 5: Imaginative knowledge
Amy Kind, ‘How imagination gives rise to knowledge’ in Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory, Fiona Macpherson and Fabian Dorsch (eds), Oxford: OUP, (2018)
Background reading: Magdelena Balcerak Jackson, 'Justification by Imagination' in Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory, Fiona Macpherson and Fabian Dorsch (eds), Oxford: OUP, (2018)
Week 6: Knowledge first approaches
Jonathan Jenkins-Ichikawa and C.S.I. Jenkins, ‘On Putting Knowledge First’, Knowledge First: approaches to epistemology and mind, Oxford: OUP (2017)
Background reading: J. Adam Carter, Emma C. Gordon, and Benjamin W. Jarvis, 'Knowledge First: an introduction' in Knowledge First: approaches in epistemology and mind, Oxford: OUP (2017)
Background reading: Timothy Williamson, 'Introduction' to Knowledge and its Limits, Oxford: OUP (2002)
Week 7: Understanding
Linda Zagzebski, ‘Recovering Understanding’, In M. Steup (ed.) Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility, and Virtue. Oxford University Press (2001)
Background reading: Stephen R. Grimm, ‘Is Understanding A Species of Knowledge?’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 57: 515-535 (2006)
Week 8: Naturalised epistemology
Jaegwon Kim, ‘What is “Naturalized Epistemology”?, in Philosophical Perspectives, 2:381-405, (1988)
Background reading: Patricia Smith Churchland, 'Epistemology in the Age of Neuroscience', The Journal of Philosophy, 84:10 (1987)
Week 9: Virtue epistemology
Vrinda Dalmiya, ‘Why should a knower care?’, in Hypatia, 17:1, (2002)
Background reading: Heather Battaly, 'Virtue Epistemology' in Philosophy Compass, 3/4 (2008)
Week 10: Social epistemology
Alessandra Tanesini ‘“Calm Down, Dear”: intellectual arrogance, silencing and ignorance’, in the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, XC, (2016)
Background reading: Sanford Goldberg, 'Arrogance, Silence and Silencing', in the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, XC, (2016)
This list was last updated on 08/09/2021