Welcome to Philosophical Studies and the PHi1010 Module. \u00a0The subject matter is knowing, reality and truth. Not too much to get through in 11 weeks, then.<\/p>\n
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Today was just an introduction to what philosophy is and how it is performed. \u00a0If you take anything from the lecture, it is that if you hold a belief and want it to held by others, then you ought to have bloody good reason that are rational and coherent. \u00a0We are now going to look at the Theaetetus and see whether Plato himself has good reasons for holding his general claim that empiricism is not a good theory of knowledge. Start reading the dialogue which you can download for free\u00a0http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Theaetetus-ebook\/dp\/B0082SSDHO\/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=39QXP5XJJJY4W&coliid=I3SOGWJISUF4GA<\/a>. The introduction is very good in this edition, but begin by reading the dialogue itself.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next week, unfortunately, there will be no lecture as I am away at a conference. \u00a0I may try to set up tutorials for next week — check your emails regularly. \u00a0I shall timetable an extra lecture for the future.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to Philosophical Studies and the PHi1010 Module. \u00a0The subject matter is knowing, reality and truth. Not too much to get through in 11 weeks, then. Today was just an introduction to what philosophy is and how it is performed. \u00a0If you take anything from the lecture, it is that if you hold a … Continue reading “PHi1010 Lecture 1 and next week”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stage-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}