Epistemology Spring Term 2007 Reading Lists These lists are merely suggestions for further reading feel

l free to explore the huge literature on these topics. Everything you read will help your understanding. Many of the works below are available online. Check: http://metalib.york.ac.uk/ Week 2: What is Evident - Lecture: Roderick Chisholm, Theory of Knowledge, ch.2 - Seminar: Selections from J.L. Austin Sense and Sensibilia chs. 3 and 11 Other Suggested Reading: G. Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, First Dialogue D. Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, section XII B. Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, chapter 1 AJ Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge, chapter 3 AJ Ayer, The Central Questions of Philosophy, chapter 4 P. Snowdon, 'How to interpret "direct perception"', in T. Crane (ed) The Contents of Experience T. Stoneham, Berkeley's World, chapter 3 especially 3.2.2 Week 3: The Causal Theory of Perception Lecture: Paul Grice, 'The Causal Theory of Perception', in his Studies in the Way of Words, also in Dancy (ed) Perceptual Knowledge Seminar: John Hyman 'The Causal Theory of Perception' Philosophical Quarterly 1992 Other Suggested Reading: P. Strawson, 'Causation in Perception', Freedom and Resentment H. Robinson, 'The Objects of Perception', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (1990) P. Snowdon, 'The Objects of Perception', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (1990) W. Child 'Vision and Experience', Philosophical Quarterly 1992 J. Hyman, 'Vision, Causation and Occlusion', Philosophical Quarterly (1993) M. Hinton, Experiences P. Snowdon, 'Experience, Vision and Causation', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1980-1) and in Dancy (ed) Perceptual Knowledge McDowell, 'Criteria, Defeasibility and Knowledge', in Meaning, Knowledge and Reality and Dancy (ed) Perceptual Knowledge M. Ayers, 'What is Realism?', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (2001) M. Martin, 'The Transparency of Experience', Mind and Language (2003) W. Fish, 'Disjunctivism and Non-Disjunctivism: Making Sense of the Debate', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2005) with reply by Snowdon

Week 4: Reliable Information Lecture: Laurence Bonjour, The Structure of Empirical Knowledge, chapter 3 Seminar: Kent Bach, 'A Rationale for Reliabilism', The Monist, 1985 Other Suggested Reading: R. Nozick, Philosophical Explanations, chapter 3, sections I & II, reprinted in Dancy (ed) Perceptual Knowledge A. Goldman, 'Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge', Journal of Philosophy 1976, reprinted in Dancy (ed) Perceptual Knowledge C. Peacocke, Thoughts, chapter 9 C. McGinn, 'The Concept of Knowledge', Midwest Studies in Philosophy (1984) reprinted in Knowledge and Reality K. Lehrer, 'Externalism and Epistemology Naturalized' from Theory of Knowledge J. McDowell, 'Knowledge and the Internal', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1995, reprinted in Sosa & Kim (eds) Epistemology Week 5: Causal Theory of Memory - Lecture: Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, ch.11 - Seminar: C.B. Martin and Max Deutscher, 'Remembering', Philosophical review, 1966 Other Suggested Reading: D. Locke, Memory, chs.1-3 AJ Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge, chapter 4 R. Squires, 'Memory Unchained', Philosophical Review 1969 G.E.M. Anscombe, Memory, "Experience", and Causation, in her Collected Philosophical Papers, vol.II: Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 120130. M. Deutscher, Remembering "Remembering", in J. Heil (ed.) Cause, Mind, and Reality. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 53-72. D. Owens, A Lockean Theory of Memory Experience, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1996, 319-332. Week 6: Preservative Theory of Memory - Lecture: Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, chapter 8 section 7. - Seminar: David Owens 'The Authority of Memory' European Journal of Philosophy 1998 Other Suggested Reading: J. Dokic, Is Memory Purely Preservative?, in C. Hoerl and T. McCormack (eds) Time and Memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 213-232. D. Locke, Memory, chs.9-12 N. Malcolm, A Definition of Factual Memory, in his Knowledge and Certainty. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. N. Malcolm, Memory and Representation, Nous 1970, 59-70. M. Martin, Out of the Past: episodic recall as retained acquaintance, in C. Hoerl and T. McCormack (eds) Time and Memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 257-284.

D. Wiggins, 'Remembering Directly', in Hopkins, J. & Savile, A. (eds.) Psycho-analysis, Mind and Art T. Stoneham, 'Memory and Knowledge', http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~twcs1/Epistemology/Lectures/Memory_and_Knowledge Week 7: Self-knowledge - Lecture: David Armstrong, A Materialist Theory of Mind, ch.15 - Seminar: Tom Stoneham, 'Self-Knowledge' in Niiniluoto et al (eds) Handbook of Epistemology Other Suggested Reading: G. Ryle, 'Self-knowledge' in The Concept of Mind P. Strawson, Individuals, ch.3 P. Hacker, 'Avowals and Descriptions' in Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind D. Armstrong, 'Is Introspective Knowledge Incorrigible?', Philosophical Review 1963, reprinted in Rosenthal (ed) The Nature of Mind C. Peacocke, A Study of Concepts, ch.6 J. Tanney, 'A constructivist account of self-knowledge', Philosophy, 1996 E. Fricker, 'Self-Knowledge: Special Access vs Artefact of Grammar', in Wright, Smith and Macdonald Eds. Knowing Our Own Minds Week 8: A Priori Knowledge - Lecture: A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic, ch.4 - Seminar: WVO Quine, 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism', in From a Logical Point of View Other Suggested Reading: Grice and Strawson, 'In Defense of a Dogma', Philosophical Review 1956, reprinted in Grice's Studies in the Way of Words M. Dummett, 'Is Logic Empirical?', in Truth and Other Enigmas P. Kitcher, 'A Priori Knowledge', Philosophical Review 1980 P. Benacerraf, 'Mathematical Truth', in Benacerraf & Putnam (eds) Philosophy of Mathematics C. Peacocke 'How is A Priori Knowledge Possible?', European Journal of Philosophy, 1993 P. Boghossian, 'Analyticity', in Hale & Wright (eds) Companion to the Philosophy of Language R. Samuels et al, 'Reason and Rationality' in Niiniluoto et al (eds) Handbook of Epistemology Week 9: Testimony and Rationalism - Lecture: David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 3 - Seminar: Tyler Burge 'Content Preservation', Phil Review 1993 Other Suggested Reading: Christensen & Kornblith, 'Testimony, Memory and the Limits of the "A Priori"', Philosophical Studies 1997, with reply by Burge J. Edwards, 'Burge on memory and testimony', Analysis, 2000, pp.124-31 C. Peacocke, The Realm of Reason, chs. 1&2 L. Bonjour, In Defense of Pure Reason, chs.1-4