Summary of Philosophers/Topics

Philosopher Arguments/Theories/Objections/Criticisms

Plato ● Tripartite View (JTB)
● Innatism (Slave Boy Argument- RaSoK)

Gettier ● Conditions of Tripartite View Not Sufficient
(Gettier cases)

Locke ● Indirect Realism (Primary/Secondary
Distinction)
● Involuntary Nature of Experience
(Response to Scepticism Criticism)
● Tabula Rasa (Empiricist Response to
Innatism)
● Perception Responses to Scepticism
Arguments

Russell ● Best Hypothesis (Response to Scepticism
Argument & Criticism of Indirect Realism)
● Self-Knowledge & Proof of External World
(In Response to Scepticism)
● Fallacy of Composition & Impossibility of
Necessary Being (Criticisms of
Cosmological Argument)

Berkeley ● Idealism (Including Master Argument &
Attack on Primary/Secondary Distinction)
● Idealism (Knowing External World Cannot
Exist) In Response to Scepticism

Leibniz ● Innatism (Argument Based on Necessary
Truths- RaSoK)
● Cosmological Argument From Principle of
Sufficient Reason (From Contingency)

Descartes ● Infallibilism (Response to Gettier)
● Intuition & Deduction Thesis (RaSoK)
Including C&D Ideas, Cogito as Intuition,
Proof of EW & God as Deduction
● Waves of Doubt Sceptical Argument (And
Own Responses)
● CA From Causation
● Ontological Argument
● Substance Dualism (Indivisibility &
Conceivability Argument)
● Dualist Arguments Problems for Physicalist
Theories & MBTIT


Hume ● Fork Applied to Descartes Intuition &