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University of Washington, Tacoma TPHIL 250 – Practical Reasoning (Winter 2020)

Time/Local: M/W/F/ – 11:00am-12:200pm – TPS 201

Professor: Dr. Amos Nascimento

Email: [email protected]

Date: January 27, 2020

Outline06

1. Introduction

a) Minutes of previous class – Group 2

b) Working in Groups – Group 3 takes notes

2. Reading Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

a) Preface of first edition (1781) – Edition A

b) Discussion:

- Conceptual perspective: Rationalists/Dogmatists

- Empirical perspective: Empiricists/Skeptics

- Kant’s “third way”: Criticism

3. Group Activities: Inferences and Arguments

a) Arguments and inferences

b) Identifying premises and conclusions

4. Review for Test 1 on Friday (February 1)

a) Personal interests and reasons

b) Practical Reasoning

c) Reason, Reasoning, and Reasons

d) Arguments, inferences, premises, conclusions

e) Justifications for action

f) Immanuel Kant’s life and work

g) The Critique of Pure Reason

h) Rationalists/Dogmatists versus Empiricists/Skeptics

i) Kant’s “Criticism” as a mediation between two extremes

j) Conceptual and empirical perspectives

5. Conclusion

a) Reminder

- Homework with your group

- Preparation for Test 1 on February 1

- Materials posted on Canvas