Subject Area: Philosophy

This course concerns one of philosophy's core areas — epistemology. The aim of the course is to give students an awareness of some historically and philosophically important ideas and ways of thinking, along with an increased ability to engage critically and imaginatively with those ideas and those ways of thinking. Epistemology is the philosophical study of the nature and extent of knowledge. And so we will consider some theories of knowledge and its possible constituents, along with philosophical challenges to our actually -- or even possibly -- having knowledge or its constituents. What do we know? How do we know? Do we know at all? Indeed, are we even rational beings?