The Raft and the Pyramid” RULE #1: You may not use any outside sources. I put this up front to make sure you don’t miss it. Papers which cite outside sources or are obviously influenced by outside sources will not be returned without a grade; they will have to be re-written in without the use of outside sources. (This includes the famous essay by Ernst Sosa called “The Raft and the Pyramid.” Stay away from it, at least until after you have submitted your paper.) You have plenty of material and tools to work with. Materials & tools: Rene Descartes, “Meditations I & II” Charles S. Peirce, “The Fixation of Belief” “Two conflicting epistemological perspectives” Lecture 7 Relevant ideas from other lectures A good dictionary Your mind - this tool is the most important The situation: Imagine that you bump into a friend while waiting for a train or bus. You’re sitting on a bench flipping through your philosophy notebook, and your friend notices a drawing of a raft and a draw