Review Questions for Final Exam

Review questions for the final exam are below. You will be asked eight of these questions and asked to answer five of them in essays of about four substantive paragraphs.

Reading for Thurs., Apr. 22: Cohen, “Basic Knowledge and the Problem of Easy Knowledge”

The reading for Thursday, Apr. 22 is Stewart Cohen, “Basic Knowledge and the Problem of Easy Knowledge.” Link here; click on the “Full Text PDF” link. From off campus, log on to EZProxy and use this link (direct PDF download). If that link doesn’t work, go here and click the “Full text PDF” link under the article’s name.

Final Paper Topic Suggestions

The final paper is due the last day of class, Tuesday March 4. Please write 8 to 10 pages (double-spaced) on a topic from this course. Don’t just summarize one or more articles; focus on an argument or similar topic and keep your paper relevant to it.

You may wish to explore an argument as it threads through many papers, with objections and responses, or to focus on one or two papers and explore their main topics in depth. The following topics are just suggestions of some of the things that might work (and some of them are very specific). If you want to write on a topic that isn’t listed below, feel free. If you’d like to discuss a topic, either to make sure it’s OK or to bounce your ideas off me, my office hours are before class in 70 S. Williams St., or you can e-mail me at mcweiner@uvm.edu.

Reading for Thurs. April 15

For April 15 (or, perhaps, later), in addition to the previous Vogel article please read “Reliabilism Leveled” by Jonathan Vogel. this link should work on-campus; off-campus, log into EZProxy and use this link. (In both cases, you can then download a PDF by using the PDF link.)

Reading for Tues., Apr. 13: Vogel, “Are There Counterexamples to the Closure Principle?”

The reading for Tuesday is Jonathan Vogel, “Are There Counterexamples to the Closure Principle?” (pdf link).

Paper Two due Tues., April 20

The second paper will be due Tuesday, April 20 (2-3 pages). Topics are below the fold.

Reading for Tues. Apr. 6: Cohen, “How To Be a Fallbilist”

The reading for Tuesday, Apr. 6, is “How To Be a Fallibilist” by Stewart Cohen. On-campus users can go here and download the paper from the “PDF” link. Off-campus users can log on to EZProxy by going here and clicking on the “EZProxy” link; then use this link; if all goes well, the paper can be downloaded from “PDF” link.