FYSEM2 - Ways of Knowing

In this section, you can find notes from each of our classes. Some of these notes will be quite complete and full, others will be a bit more scrappy. This is not a course manual, but it is instead a place to share information, ideas, stray thoughts, summaries, and suggestions in a way that is easily accessible.

As these are only notes — a work in progress — please don’t see these pages as something you should be citing in your essays!

Class 8 - Logos, and Giving an Account of Giving and Account

Knowledge and True Belief (with an account)
2025-02-27
5 min read

Class 7 - Wax tablets and bird houses.

Why Knowledge is Not True Belief, part 2
2025-02-24
4 min read

Class 6 - Socrates Responds to Theaetetus's Second Definition

Why Knowledge is Not True Belief
2025-02-20
4 min read

Class 5 - Socrates Responds to Theaetetus's First Definition

Why Knowledge is Not Perception
2025-02-18
4 min read

Class 4 - Socrates Responds to Theaetetus's First Definition

Why Knowledge is Not Perception
2025-02-12
2 min read

Class 3 - Theaetetus's First Definition

On Knowledge and Perception
2025-02-10
5 min read

Class 2 - Getting to know the Theaetetus

Getting started on Plato's famous text!
2025-02-06
3 min read

Class 1 - Introduction, Knowledge, and Plato in Context

Our first class - getting to know each other, and introducing Plato
2025-02-03
9 min read