UNSW Handbook Course - Contemporary Epistemology

Contemporary Epistemology - PHIL2208


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of Philosophy
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 6 units of credit in level 1 Philosophy and 36 units of credit overall. Excluded: PHIL2209
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

Description

What is knowledge? What knowledge are people capable of having? Might people have no knowledge at all? Might people at least have much less knowledge than they take themselves to have? We will discuss sceptical, as well as non-sceptical, philosophical theories of knowledge, covering such topics as these: truth, fallibility, evidence, certainty, knowledge of the world, knowledge of the unobserved, knowledge of one's mind, knowledge of meaning.

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