
2014-15-II Epistemology
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The course gives an overview of the most influential trends and special problems of epistemology in order to canvass a large scale philosophical map of the theories of knowledge.
The purpose of this course is to make you able to
- understand and analyze epistemological theories.
- use the concepts and arguments of this field properly.
- combine epistemological views with other approaches to cognition.
The course gives an overview of the most influential trends and special problems of epistemology in order to canvass a large scale philosophical map of the theories of knowledge.
The purpose of this course is to make you able to
- understand and analyze epistemological theories.
- use the concepts and arguments of this field properly.
- combine epistemological views with other approaches to cognition.
Topics covered
- Introduction
- Science and Epistemology
Justification
- Internalism: Foundationalism and Coherence theory
- Externalism: Social epistemology, virtue epistemology, causal theory of knowledge
- The Challenge of scepticism
- Test
Sources of knowledge
- Perception
- Intuition-inference
- Memory
- (Easter)
- Tesimony-introspection (First Essay due)
Meta-epistemology
- Naturalized epistemology
- Unanalyzable knowledge
- Epistemology and pragmatism
Követelmények:
- Requirements
- Knowledge of the reading materials.
- Essay (60%): Two, 2-4 pages essay, on one of the topics discussed.
- Test : (40%): The content of the test is the first 30% of the course only.
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