Ismeretelmélet/Epistemology (2014-15-II hétfő 10:15-11:45)

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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

1. Introduction     
2. Science and Epistemology

Justification

3. Internalism: Foundationalism and Coherence theory
4. Externalism: Social epistemology, virtue epistemology, causal theory of knowledge
5. The Challenge of scepticism
6. Test

Sources of knowledge

7. Perception
8. Intuition-inference
9. Memory
10. (Easter)
11. Tesimony-introspection (First Essay due)

Meta-epistemology

12. Naturalized epistemology
13. Unanalyzable knowledge
14. Epistemology and pragmatism