PHIL404 - Epistemology
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This course is a critical examination of problems concerning knowledge and belief; for example, how are beliefs acquired and justified, are there limits to knowledge, what is the scope and reliability of reason and experience, what counts as an explanation, how are truth, meaning and reality related? Readings will be from historical and contemporary sources, e.g., Descartes, Kant, Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine.
Prerequisites
N/A
Corequisites
N/A
Schedule of Classes
| 09/26/11 - 02/26/12 |
03/05/12 - 04/29/12 |
Winter 2012 Session D - 8 Week session |
| 01/30/12 - 06/24/12 |
07/02/12 - 08/26/12 |
Summer 2012 Session B - 8 Week session |
Course Materials
| Book Title: |
Readings in Epistemology: From Aquinas, Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant
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| ISBN: |
0823214923
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| Publication Info: |
Fordham University Press; 2nd/Rev edition (March 1, 1993)
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| Author: |
Vincent G. Potter
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| Unit Cost: |
$20.25
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