Exam 2: Plato Knowledge Is Recollection

Locke argues that young children ...

Why does Longino tell us that our commitments presuppose a certain understanding of human action, so that when faced with a conflict between these commitments and a particular model of brain-behavior relationships we allow the political commitments to guide the choice?

Frank says that "most people when asked what they believe simply tell you. Why do you, in order to find out your beliefs, go through the fantastically roundabout process of directing a thought-reading machine to your own brain and then finding out what you believe on the basis of the machine readings?" The Epistemologist replies, "What other scientific, objective way is there of finding out what I believe?"

How does Koertge define social construction or constructivist epistemology?

Describe the operation that was performed on Harry. What did they do with Harry's brain? What are they trying to prove?

Frank says that "most people when asked what they believe simply tell you. Why do you, in order to find out your beliefs, go through the fantastically roundabout process of directing a thought-reading machine to your own brain and then finding out what you believe on the basis of the machine readings?" The Epistemologist replies, ...

According to Zagzebski, "a conscientious person has general epistemic self-trust. The phenomenon of epistemic circularity means that either a reflective person must have self-trust or succumb to ..."

Descartes says, "all things being maturely and carefully considered, that this proposition-I am, I exist-is necessarily true each time it is expressed by me, or conceived in my mind. This alone is inseparable from me. I am-I exist: this is certain; but how often?" Descartes answers his own question by stating which of the following:

Descartes asks the following: "how do I know that I am not also deceived each time I add together two and three"? Furthermore, "If, however, it were repugnant to the goodness of God to have created me subject to constant deception, it would seem likewise to be contrary to his goodness to allow me to be occasionally deceived; and yet it is clear that this is permitted." From this Descartes concludes that …

Aristotle says that the intellect is nothing at all actually before it recollects ideas.

When Frank asks how the Epistemologist could have access to Frank's private mental states, the Epistemologist says that the concept of "private mental states is morally repugnant."

MacDonald's main point about the objects of illusory waking perception is that they are, in some sense, located among the real objects which form their context.

For Peirce, "The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of ..."

For Kant, the statement, "All bodies are heavy," is ...

Aristotle holds that we cannot conceive the intellect "to be mixed with the body, for in that case it would ..."

What is Locke's main purpose in his essay?

For Hume, "all inferences from experience suppose, as their foundation, ..."

Are you convinced by either one of Gettier's two examples?

Astell claims that the three modes of understanding are distinguished by the different degrees of _________________ in the premises from which the conclusion is drawn.

For Kant, a clear example of how far, independently of all experience, we can carry our a priori knowledge can be seen in scientific experiments.