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Rethink everything you know about the world as you delve into the fascinating field of epistemology.
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Overview
Syllabus
- 01: Philosophy and Transformative Experiences
- 02: Knowledge, Truth, and Belief
- 03: Foundationalism: Descartes’s Evil Demon
- 04: The Coherence Theory of Knowledge
- 05: Externalist Theories of Knowledge
- 06: Problems with Self-Knowledge
- 07: Does Sense Perception Support Knowledge?
- 08: Perception: Foundationalism and Externalism
- 09: The Importance of Memory for Knowledge
- 10: Confabulations and False Memories
- 11: The Extended Mind
- 12: Do We Have Innate Knowledge?
- 13: How Deduction Contributes to Knowledge
- 14: Hume’s Attack on Induction
- 15: The Raven Paradox and New Riddle of Induction
- 16: Know-How versus Propositional Knowledge
- 17: Knowledge Derived from Testimony
- 18: Social Psychology and Source Monitoring
- 19: Testimony through Social Networks
- 20: The Reliability of Scientific Testimony
- 21: Testimony in the Media
- 22: Pragmatic and Moral Encroachment
- 23: Radical Skepticism: The Brain in a Vat
- 24: The Future of Epistemology
- By This Professor
Taught by
Joseph H. Shieber
