The Architecture of Reason
Like Duolingo, but for The Architecture of Reason. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
21 levels across 3 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Boundaries of Knowledge, Metaphysics and the Self, and Language and Value.
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Key ideas in The Architecture of Reason
- Disconnected justification and truth-maker
- Defining a lemma
- Non-accidental connection
- Failure of No False Lemmas
- Double-luck scenarios
- Externalist critiques
- Identifying why a justified true belief fails to be knowledge in a Gettier case
- The efficacy of the No False Lemmas condition in preventing epistemic luck
- Reliabilism shifts the focus from internal justification to the external 'track record' of the process
- Knowledge requires a direct or indirect causal chain from the fact to the perceiver
- A process is reliable if it produces a high ratio of true to false beliefs over time
- Reliabilism bypasses the need for the subject to 'know' that their process is reliable
- The actual fact (the real vase) did not cause the belief (which was caused by the hologram)
- Causal theories struggle with knowledge of abstract truths like mathematics
- Distinguishing between reliable and unreliable cognitive processes in Reliabilism
- Applying the causal theory to distinguish knowledge from coincidence
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The Architecture of Reason the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
In the context of epistemic reasoning, what is the best definition of a 'lemma'?
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Where The Architecture of Reason takes you
Move beyond the popular schools of life-philosophy into the rigorous world of analytic metaphysics, social epistemology, and the deep structures of language and logic.
- 1
The Boundaries of Knowledge
- Beyond Justified True Belief
- Social Epistemology and Testimony
- 2
Metaphysics and the Self
- The Persistence of Identity
- Modal Logic and Possible Worlds
- 3
Language and Value
- Meta-Ethics and Moral Status
- The Limits of Virtue and Luck
- Meaning, Reference, and Reality
3 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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