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.
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.