Epistemology and Metaphysics Positions Drill
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Work thought experiments, map positions onto their commitments, and answer the standard objection to each
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Quizzes
Write items grounded in the source material's thought experiments and positions. Stems either describe a case in three to five sentences (Gettier-style justified true belief, fake barns, brain in a vat, Twin Earth, the ship of Theseus, Mary's room, teletransportation, Chinese room, Newcomb) and ask what it is meant to show, or state a position and ask which commitment or which objection follows. Four options, one…
Tests
Build a test from the source material weighted thirty percent multiple choice on position-to-commitment mapping, thirty percent short answer reconstructing a thought experiment as a numbered argument and identifying which premise it targets, forty percent one essay. The essay must take a stance on a live question from the material, for example whether justification is closed under entailment or whether identity over…
Flashcards
Three card types. Type one: front is the name of a thought experiment, back gives the setup in two sentences, the intuition it elicits, the premise or analysis it is designed to defeat, and one response, in that order. Type two: front is a position from the source, back lists its two or three core commitments and the one cost it is usually charged with. Type three: front is an objection, back names its target…
