Philosophical Inquiry
PHILISOPHICAL INQUIRY:
What is philosophy?
“The love of wisdom.”
Metaphysics: the theory of reality. What is real?
Epistemology: the theory of knowledge. What does it mean to “know?”
Value-theory: the study of value. What gives something value...over something else?
Logic: The principles of right reasoning. What principles do we use?
All of these do not stand independent from each other...they all mix.
September 25:
Abstractions: CH9
Is Fido an abstraction?
Dog is a category...you wouldn’t say a thing is a Caroline.
Fido is NOT an abstraction...because it is concrete. While dog is a concept.
Aquinas: Empiricist
Aristotle: The Universals are in the particulars. We come up with ideas by going to specific to universal (Inductive)
CH 8 and 9 QUIZ:
1. Who advocated the notion of innate ideas? PLATO
2. Name a rationalist identified in the reading PLATO, CHOMSKE, DESCARTES
3. Name an empiricist identifies in the reading, ARISTOTLE, LOCKE
4. T/F: Locke is an advocate of innate ideas FALSE
5. What does the phrase tabula rasa signify? BLANK SLATE
6. What philosopher is associated with “pehenomenalism?’ HUNE
OBJECTIVES:
1. What are the two primary ay sin which the question: “What is the origin of knowledge” can be answered? Rationalism and Empiricism
2. 2. Give three exemplars of each approach, and describe why they are either an empiricist or a rationalist.
3. How are Descartes and Locke alike, and how are the unalike? Descartes, a rationalist, and Locke, an empiricist, attempt to answer very similar questions, but use totally different methods.
4. Explain the significance of the tabula rasa.
5. Define and explain “pehenomenalism.”
Epistemology: concerned with the kind of knowledge involved in truth claims.
INDUCTION: Probability |Universal to Specific| its true until it isn’t
DECUCTION: Certainty |Specific to Universal|
ABDUCTION: Education Guess |Inference to the best conclusion|
What do we know...with
What is philosophy?
“The love of wisdom.”
Metaphysics: the theory of reality. What is real?
Epistemology: the theory of knowledge. What does it mean to “know?”
Value-theory: the study of value. What gives something value...over something else?
Logic: The principles of right reasoning. What principles do we use?
All of these do not stand independent from each other...they all mix.
September 25:
Abstractions: CH9
Is Fido an abstraction?
Dog is a category...you wouldn’t say a thing is a Caroline.
Fido is NOT an abstraction...because it is concrete. While dog is a concept.
Aquinas: Empiricist
Aristotle: The Universals are in the particulars. We come up with ideas by going to specific to universal (Inductive)
CH 8 and 9 QUIZ:
1. Who advocated the notion of innate ideas? PLATO
2. Name a rationalist identified in the reading PLATO, CHOMSKE, DESCARTES
3. Name an empiricist identifies in the reading, ARISTOTLE, LOCKE
4. T/F: Locke is an advocate of innate ideas FALSE
5. What does the phrase tabula rasa signify? BLANK SLATE
6. What philosopher is associated with “pehenomenalism?’ HUNE
OBJECTIVES:
1. What are the two primary ay sin which the question: “What is the origin of knowledge” can be answered? Rationalism and Empiricism
2. 2. Give three exemplars of each approach, and describe why they are either an empiricist or a rationalist.
3. How are Descartes and Locke alike, and how are the unalike? Descartes, a rationalist, and Locke, an empiricist, attempt to answer very similar questions, but use totally different methods.
4. Explain the significance of the tabula rasa.
5. Define and explain “pehenomenalism.”
Epistemology: concerned with the kind of knowledge involved in truth claims.
INDUCTION: Probability |Universal to Specific| its true until it isn’t
DECUCTION: Certainty |Specific to Universal|
ABDUCTION: Education Guess |Inference to the best conclusion|
What do we know...with