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Theories of Knowledge: How to Think about What You Know

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11 hours 34 minutes
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Rethink everything you know about the world as you delve into the fascinating field of epistemology.

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

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