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PHIL 345 - Theory of Knowledge


3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
Knowledge-its nature, forms, methods, scope, and validation. What are the relations of knowledge and justification to sense experience? For example, does knowledge of our surroundings rest upon a foundation of sense experience? Is knowledge of the so-called “truths of reason” in some way independent of evidence provided by sense experience? How is a body of knowledge related to an individual knower? Does the justification of one’s beliefs depend upon what psychology reveals about the reliability of methods for acquiring the beliefs? Readings from contemporary sources.

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