Friday, October 3, 2025

HOMEWORK #6 EMPIRICISM AND KANTIAN THEORY

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Empiricism (a video)

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

El empirismo de John Locke

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La duda que nos lleva a la certeza (de acuerdo a Descartes)

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Mi salsa de tomate (importante para cocineros)☝️

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Chapter 6: Epistemology

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A PBS video to help you see these ideas, Epistemology's main characters, A brief history of epistemology,  Some necessary epistemologica...

HOW TO EXPLAIN SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS

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Thursday, September 18, 2025

Review for our Quiz (2025)

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Review for Quiz #1

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The presocratics. Philosophy and its branches. Fallacies. Mind experiments. What is truth. Necessary and sufficient conditions. Criteria of ...

Criteria of adequacy of scientific theories (muy importante)

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Some excellent introductory math texts I recommend

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Mi libro favorito de cálculo 1, 2 y 3.   Tom Apostol Vol. 1 ,  &  Volume 2  (PDF). Lynn Loomis and Schlomo Sternberg, for  Advanced Calc...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Logical and causal possibility (think of mind experiments)

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Logical Possiblity: Something is logically possible if and only if it violates a law of logic.  Here is one logical possibility: "Presi...

¿Qué es un experimento mental? (mind experiment)

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DEF: The description of a possible situation in which a concept should apply or a condition should be met if the theory in question is true....

¿Qué es la verdad?

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En clase les he dicho que la verdad es complicada. Y lo es, pero eso no significa que la filosofía no haya definido el concepto de verdad. E...

Lista de algunos paradigmas científicos que han cambiado

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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Cause and effect can betray even the smartest amongst us!

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When is C a cause of E? Take this simple example:   Pluto's barking causes Dick to wake up. We need four steps: 1. The cause must prece...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Deductive and Inductive arguments

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PREMISE: A premise is a reason given. ARGUMENT: An argument is a set of premises and a conclusion. DEDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS An argument is a se...

Necessary and sufficient conditions

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Necessary conditions : X is a necessary condition for Y ,  if X is not present, Y doesn't happen. (yet, to say that X is a necessary...

LES PRESENTO EL AXIS DEL CONOCIMIENTO

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In the Y axis, I know that I know (certainty) In the X axis, I know I don't know (doubt, duda, la filosofía) In the -Y axis, I don't...

la naturaleza de la HIPÓ-TESIS

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Henri Poincaré La hipótesis ( hypo : debajo, thesis : conclusión) es el recurso par excellence  del descubrimiento científico.   Es el recur...
Friday, August 29, 2025

HOMEWORK 1 (entregamos la tarea impresa en la clase el próximo martes)

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Thursday, August 28, 2025

LOS PRESOCRÁTICOS (LOS PADRES DE LA FILOSOFÍA ANTES QUE HUBIERA FILOSOFÍA)

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What is the fundamental "stuff" ( arche ) of the universe? The crucial feature of pre-Socratic philosophy was the use of reason to...

PHILOSOPHY AND ITS BRANCHES

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LOGIC : The study of correct thinking. Su objeto no es qué pensamos , sino cómo pensamos y bajo qué condiciones un razonamiento puede co...

WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? PRESENTED BY HANK GREEN

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

TEXTBOOK

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¿Qué gano con estudiar filosofía? Philosophy es #1 en "analytic", "verbal" y "composite" para el GRE, LSAT and LGMAT (y el salario no es malo)

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Phi 2010 Honors, Syllabus, Fall 2025

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Alfredo Triff, PhD.  Escéptico, hedonista, tradicionalista, cocinero, tutor, fumador de pipa y ailurófilo. 😎 Correo electrónico : atriff@...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Homework 7 (ETHICS, CHAPTER)

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

chapter 3, ETHICS, fall 2024

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let's start with this video, click here for my intro to moral norms, what are defensible moral judgments? click here for my lectures on...
Monday, November 4, 2024

Philosophy paper (second assignment)

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