Philosophy 427: Intuitions and Philosophy

Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.

Hamilton College, Fall 2009

Class Notes

27 - Sosa, Slides (Thursday, 12/10)

26 - DePaul and Reflective Equilibrium (slides, including leftovers from the Kornblith-Bealer smackdown) (Tuesday, 12/8)

25 - Kornblith v Bealer (and slides) (Thursday, 12/3)

23-4 - Defending Intuition - Bealer (and slides)(Thursday, 11/19 and Tuesday, 12/1)

22 - Scientific Method and Reflective Equilibrium (Tuesday, 11/17)

21 - Children and Semantic Externalism (and slides) (Thursday, 11/12)

20 - Juror Impartiality (Tuesday, 11/10)

19 - Intentions and the Knobe Effect (Tuesday, 11/3)

18 - Self-Trust (Thursday, 10/29)

17 - Prospect Theory and The Doctrine of Acts and Omissions (Tuesday, 10/27)

16 - Free Will and Responsibility IV - Nichols and Knobe (Thursday, 10/22)

15 - Free Will and Responsibility III - Nahmias et al. (Tuesday, 10/20)

14 - Free Will and Responsibility II: Woolfolk et al. (Tuesday, 10/13)

13 - Frankfurt on Free Will (Thursday, 10/8)

12 - Machery et al. on Descriptivism and Direct Reference (Tuesday, 10/6)

11 - Weinberg, Nichols, and Stich: Epistemic Relativism (Thursday, 10/1)

10 - Shafir, and Problems with Practical Reasoning (Tuesday, 9/29)

9 - Stich and Nisbett, and Problems with Reflective Equilibrium (Thursday, 9/24)

8 - Chomsky and Reflective Equilibrium in Linguistics (Tuesday, 9/22)

7 - Rawls and Reflective Equilibrium in Ethics (Thursday, 9/17)

6 - Quine and the Scientific Method (Tuesday, 9/15)

5 - Goodman and Reflective Equilibrium (Thursday, 9/10)

4 - Sellars and The Myth of the Given (Tuesday, 9/8)

3 - Positivism notes slides (Thursday, 9/3)

2 - Foundationalism notes slides (Tuesday, 9/1)

1 - Introduction (pdf of slides) (Thursday, 8/27)