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Welcome to the Course Guide for PHIL 540: Theory of Knowledge

This guide will assist you in completing your assignments in this course. The databases, journals, and web sites will help you find articles and other documents to use for your article analysis term paper. If you need any assistance locating or using the sources listed, please contact your librarian (to the left).

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Weird Studies: Art, Reason, Religion, Science, Magic

Episode 141: Actual Magic: On Ramsey Dukes' SSOTBME
Phil and JF begin the work by discussing how Dukes situates magic in an epistemic compass that also includes science, art, and religion. This set of tools is as essential to a holistic view of reality as the four suits in a deck of cards are essential to a proper poker game. In other words, when we lose magic, we lose a way of dealing with reality.
Episode 66: On Diviner's Time
In the paper discussed in this episode, Phil Ford coins the term "diviner's time" to denote a particular feeling that will be familiar to anyone who has engaged in divinatory or magical practice, namely the feeling that it all means something, that the universe, with all its chaos and randomness, nevertheless contains -- or is itself -- a kind of music.

PHIL 540: Theory of Knowledge

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Weird Studies: Art, Reason, Religion, Science, Magic

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