Theories of Knowledge
wedensday Nov 6
announcements:
Study guide for test 2 handed out today
Exam will be from wednesday 13 at 2pm to tuesday 19 at 7pm.
Questions on test about Peirce will be on the final test.
Read Pierce and Clifford for next wednesday
Hume
There is no enduring substantial self.
There is no such thing as the self(mind, person, soul)
The self is just a bundle of perceptions.
Bundle-related in a certain way.
There is no perception of I-ness or Me-ness. Similar to the budhist doctorine of On-atman(no Self).
Hume: does not know where impressions come from.
Locke: Impressions come from material world.
Berkeley: Impressions come from God
Kant: The way memory, judgement and perception all work together prove the existence of self.
Extra Credit:(Up to a letter grade on first exam)10pts
Type out answers to first study guide.Due Monday December 2.