PHIL 338

Problems in Epistemology

Please note: this is archived course information from 2020 for PHIL 338.

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

Semester 1

Noah Lemos, An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, 2007

Coursework + exam

PHIL 338: 15 points

Any 30 points at Stage II in Philosophy

PHIL 218