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Timothy J. McGrew |
Saturday, January 22,
2005. Here is an Adobe PDF file of the paper “Has Plantinga Refuted
the Historical Argument?” which was a keynote address to the Pacific
Division meeting of the Society of
Christian Philosophers in Los Angeles, February 2004 and appeared in Philosophia Christi 6
(2004): 7-26. [The
PDF format is necessary to preserve a few diagrams. The Adobe Acrobat Reader
is free for downloading on the web.] Sunday, January 04,
2004. Here is a
more or less final draft of "Confirmation, Heuristics,
and Explanatory Reasoning," which appeared in the British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science 54 (2003): 553-67. Monday, September 17,
2001. The most
recent version of "Toward a Rational
Reconstruction of Design Inferences" is now available. Tuesday, May 8, 2001. An almost typo-free version of
"Direct
Inference and the Problem of Induction" is now available. This is
roughly the same paper as the version in The Monist
84 (2001). Monday, May 7, 2001. "A Defense of Strong
Foundationalism" appears here with a small correction from the
version found in Louis Pojman’s anthology The
Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings, 2nd ed. (1998).
A number of people have
told me that they have found the following brief bibliographies useful, so I am
leaving them online. They are not research bibliographies but rather
suggestions for those who are just beginning to enter the literature on a
given topic. Abductive
Inference and Inference to the Best Explanation
Philosophy 5200: Philosophical
Applications of Symbolic Logic (2007) Philosophy 6320: Epistemology Seminar
(2006)
James Morrison's Astrolabe page
Online Memory Improvement
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Current
Course Pages Philosophy 5700: Philosophical
Applications of Probability Theory (Spring 2008) The aim of this course is
to give students a firm understanding of elementary probability theory,
including its basic applications to longstanding philosophical questions.
Along the way we will give considerable attention to philosophical issues
involving the interpretation of the notion of probability, the interplay
between probability and the history and philosophy of science, and some
central epistemological questions regarding testimonial evidence,
confirmation, and reasonable belief. By the end of the course, students
should have a clear sense of the scope of elementary probability theory,
facility in its use, an understanding of the relations between logic and
probability theory, and an understanding of the epistemological implications
of and issues surrounding the use of Bayes’s Theorem. |
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