PHIL 218
Problems in Epistemology
Please note: this is archived course information from 2021 for PHIL 218.
Description
Epistemology is the study of knowledge, what it is and the conditions under which we possess it as communities and individuals.
This course will introduce students to central topics in epistemology, including the following:
- The "justified true belief" account of knowledge and its limitations
- Theories of epistemic justification, including foundationalism, coherentism and reliabilism
- Testimony and relations of epistemic dependence
- Theories of group belief and the distribution of epistemic labour
- The problem of scepticism and responses to it (including discussion of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty)
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Availability 2021
Not offered in 2021; planned for 2022
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer(s) Professor John Bishop
Dr Matheson Russell
Reading/Texts
Noah Lemos, An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
PHIL 218: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points in Philosophy
Restrictions
PHIL 338