Day One: Welcome!

•      Welcome!

•      Take-up Course Outline

•      Course and Instructor Websites

•      Brainstorm Knowledge

•      Discuss “Philosophy” and “Epistemology”

•      Assign Reading

Course Outline

•      Office hours

•      Required texts

•      Course requirements

•      Policy on plagiarism and cheating

•      Grade conversion and grade calculation

Course and Instructor Websites

•      Course site: http://web2.uwindsor.ca/courses/philosophy/mguarini/tok/index.htm

•      Alternatively, you may go to the instructor site, scroll down, and click on Theory of Knowledge

•      Instructor site:

     http://www.uwindsor.ca/guarini

Brainstorm “Knowledge”

•      First thing that comes to mind

•      No right or wrong answers

Philosophy and Epistemology

•      The many traditions of philosophy

•      The many traditions of epistemology

Reading Assignment

•      Introduction to Plato’s Meno

•      Read Plato’s Meno

•      Don’t worry about the details of the mathematical stuff.

•      Try to answer these questions: (1) what are the main topics of the dialogue? (2) how is knowledge defined?