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Knowledge and its Limits (PHIL 290 | Fall 2006 | UCB | Philosophy)

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Professors		Time & Place
Branden Fitelson branden@fitelson.org Office: 132 Moses Hall Hours: MF 2:30–4	Sherrilyn Roush roush@berkeley.edu Office: 146 Moses Hall Hours: Th 2:30–4:30	234 Moses Hall (Dennes) Wednesdays, 4–6pm

Announcements

11/28/06: I've updated the syllabus to include citations and secondary readings for chapter 11.
11/22/06: I've posted an "aftermath handout" for last week's seminar. It's a little one-pager, which describes a tension between TW's probabilistic accounts of explanatory vs evidential relevance. Remember, there will be no seminar meeting this week. Have a great Thanksgiving!
11/14/06: I've updated the syllabus to include citations and secondary readings for chapter 10.
11/07/06: I've updated the syllabus to include citations and secondary readings for chapter 9.
11/03/06: I've updated the "aftermath handout". I'll have another handout as well for next week. Stay tuned…
11/02/06: I've posted an "aftermath handout" with a cleaned-up version of some things I was groping at in seminar yesterday.
10/31/06: I've updated the syllabus to include citations and secondary readings for chapter 8.
10/25/06: I've added lots of links to the cited secondary materials on our syllabus page.
10/24/06: I've updated the syllabus to include citations and secondary readings for chapter 7. I especially recommend the salient links to Sherri's book.
10/18/06: I've updated the syllabus to include citations and secondary readings for chapter 6.
10/10/06: I've updated the syllabus to include citations and secondary readings for chapter 5.
10/04/06: Lizzie Fricker has kindly sent us her paper "Knowing is not a state of mind". I have posted it on our syllabus page.
10/02/06: I've updated the syllabus to include citations and secondary readings for chapter 4.
09/26/06: I've updated the syllabus to include citations and secondary readings for chapter 3.
09/20/06: I've posted our notes for weeks 1 and 2. This week the author is visiting...
09/11/06: I have updated the website (see here and here) to include material up through chapter 2 of the book. Note, also, that Sherri's Book is also available online (via OSO).
08/24/06: The seminar will not meet during the first week of classes. Our first meeting will be on September 6. Be sure to have read the introduction and chapter 1 of the book before then. We will jump right in and discuss chapter 1 during our first meeting.
08/20/06: This website is now under construction. Stay tuned…