Exam 2: Plato Knowledge Is Recollection

Koertge criticizes the idea of the social construction of dairy cows that claims that "certain breeds have undergone such an intense process of artificial selection, guided by the financial interests of dairy farmers, that they can now hardly survive without being hooked up to milking machines." In contrast, Koertge argues that in this case what social construction designates is really a ...

Descartes uses his analysis of the example of a piece of wax to conclude that …

Hume argues that we come to expect that the future will resemble the past because of ...

For Astell, most of our knowledge is acquired by reasoning and deduction.

Hume uses the term a priori, which means ...

According to Koertge, "Feminists are also quick to accuse their opponents of ______________, e.g. of trying to force the rich complexity of a sexual spectrum into the artificially tidy and mutually exclusive boxes of biological male vs. biological female."

Zagzebski says, "When we reflect, we realize that we have no non-circular way to tell that our faculties have anything to do with the way the world is, so either we turn our pre-reflective trust into reflective trust, or we become skeptics." Do you agree with Zagzebski? Explain your answer.

According to Longino, if someone interprets the question, Can There Be a Feminist Science? as being factual, one to be answered by pointing to what feminists in the sciences are doing and saying, Yes, and this is what it is, then such a response can be perceived as ...

MacDonald argues that the inability to apply tests to dreams "is logical, not physical or psychological. But when it is logically impossible that tests which prevent or correct mistake should be applied then it is nonsensical to assert that mistake can occur. No one can be deceived where no distinction can be made between what is and is not deceptive." Therefore, ...

Explain what Peirce means when he claims that few persons care to study logic.

Descartes says that "I will suppose, then, not that God, who is supremely good and the fountain of truth, but that some _____________, who is at once exceedingly potent and deceitful, has employed all his artifice to deceive me."

MacDonald argues that "The contents of dreams do not appear in a context of real objects, for there are none." While it makes sense to say "I dreamed that I was riding an elephant," it would be nonsense to say ...

Describe Gettier's outline of the general form of the conditions for someone knowing a given proposition.

Locke tells us that his main purpose is to ...

Kant defines "knowledge a posteriori" as being ...

MacDonald says that "Descartes' proof that the state of waking cannot be distinguished from sleep depends upon these facts: (a) that dreams are remembered, and (b) that what is so remembered resembles an object or combination of objects perceived when awake." But MacDonald argues that the criteria of "real" and "illusory" physical objects which apply to the perceptions of waking life ...

For Aristotle, "As the faculty of sense is to sensible objects [objects of sense perception], so must intellect be related to intelligible objects.

Why does Hume claim that "causes and effects are discoverable, not by reason but by experience"?

Astell's three modes of understanding are reason, intuition, and reflection.

According to Koertge, "The proponents of politically progressive science, however, would argue that science has always been impregnated with social values through and through. Their agenda is not to try to make science more value-neutral. Rather it is to ..."