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PHILOSOPHY (L30)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2024
L30 Phil 516Research Seminar: Knowing, Trusting, and Intending3.0 Units
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01M------3:00P-5:50PTBAHazlettNo final1970
Desc:We will examine three questions about connections between knowing, trusting, and intending. First question: is trust a source of knowledge? Is it possible to know something on trust? Some argue that when someone tells you something, they are inviting you to trust them, such that if you accept their invitation, and all goes well, you will come to know on trust. Others argue that trust is evidentially inadequate as a basis for knowledge. Second question: is trust compatible with knowledge? If you know that someone will do something, can you trust them to do it? Or does trust make sense only in the absence of knowledge? (The practice of making and accepting promises will be relevant here.) When we trust someone to do something, what is our doxastic attitude towards the proposition that they will do it? Third question: is intending a species of knowing? There is a difference between intending to do something and predicting that you will do something, and intuitively some such predictions amount to knowledge. Can intentions in the same way amount to knowledge? What exactly are intentions? Prerequisite: Enrollment in Philosophy or PNP Phd program, or permission of the instructor.
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