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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
6320: Epistemology
Seminar (Fall 2008) Philosophy
5700: Philosophical
Applications of Probability Theory (Spring 2008)
James Morrison's Astrolabe page
Online Memory Improvement
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Current
Course Pages Philosophy 5200: Philosophical Applications
of Symbolic Logic (Spring 2009) In the twentieth century,
symbolic logic has become the philosopher’s analytical tool par excellence.
The aim of this course is to give students a firm understanding of elementary
symbolic logic through the first order predicate calculus and to explore
extensions of elementary logic such as modal logic, deontic
logic, epistemic logic, and tense logic, as well as variants like many-valued
logics and probability logic and even more exotic systems like protothetic. Along the way we will give considerable
attention to philosophical issues involving the interpretation of logical
notions, the interplay between logic and the history of philosophy, and some
central questions in the epistemology of logic. By the end of the course,
students should have a clear sense of the scope of elementary logic, facility
in its use, an understanding of the relations between elementary logic and
some of its more prominent extensions and variants, and an understanding of
the implications of the basic metatheoretical
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