2014-2015 Undergraduate Bulletin

PHI 374 Epistemology

3 hours 

This course investigates the nature of knowledge. It will focus on what counts as knowledge, how we come to acquire knowledge, whether knowledge has a true foundation, what the sources of knowledge are, and skepticism about knowledge. This course will also investigate serious challenges to contemporary analytic epistemology. We will read historical and contemporary contributions to these debates.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 201, and PHI 231 or permission of the instructor