Overview
Description
Problems concerning the nature and types of knowledge and inquiry in relation to belief, certainty, truth, justification, language, social context, and human biology and psychology.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- 6 credits of philosophy.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits of philosophy.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- state a thesis about a central problem in the theory of knowledge, and provide evidence and argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
- explain and interpret the ideas associated with theories in the contemporary literature in the theory of knowledge.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships and patterns of inference (in contemporary philosophical theories of knowledge).
- show what is at stake in abstract debates in the theory of knowledge, and indicate how positions in these debates might have practical implications.